The ability to trust others, including strangers, is a prerequisite for human cooperation.
Economically it is not rational to trust strangers, as trust can be easily exploited. Still …

This paper examines trust judgements in the context of 'mixed signals', whereby the medium
through which a signal is projected suggests untrustworthiness, but the signal itself suggests …

What expressive facial features and processing mechanisms make a person look
trustworthy, relative to happy? Participants judged the un/happiness or un/trustworthiness of …

The amygdala has been shown to be responsive to face trustworthiness. While older adults
typically give higher face trustworthiness ratings than young adults, a direct link between …

We very much agree with the conclusion of this argument. We as scientists must leverage
our understanding of facial judgments to design policies that will prevent people judging a …

Previous research suggests that people form impressions of others based on their facial
appearance in a very fast and automatic manner, and this especially holds for …

Appearance-based trustworthiness inferences may reflect the misinterpretation of emotional
expression cues. Children and adults typically perceive faces that look happy to be relatively …

The fact that a mere glance makes it possible to extract a wealth of information about the
person being observed is testament to both the salience of the human face and the brain's …

A well-documented “beauty is good” stereotype is expressed in the expectation that
physically attractive people have more positive characteristics. Recent evidence has also …

Recent work showed that the attribution of facial trustworthiness can be influenced by the
surrounding context in which a face is embedded: contexts that convey threat make faces …