Children's and adults' judgments of facial trustworthiness: the relationship to facial attractiveness

F Ma, F Xu, X Luo - Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Existing research suggests that adults make effective trustworthiness judgments based on
facial attractiveness during initial interactions. However, little is known about how children …

Children's facial trustworthiness judgments: Agreement and relationship with facial attractiveness

F Ma, F Xu, X Luo - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
This study examined developmental changes in children's abilities to make trustworthiness
judgments based on faces and the relationship between a child's perception of …

Age‐related differences in sensitivity to facial trustworthiness: Perceptual representation and the role of emotional development

E Baccolo, V Macchi Cassia - Child development, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to discriminate social signals from faces is a fundamental component of human
social interactions whose developmental origins are still debated. In this study, 5‐year‐old …

Judging trustworthiness from faces: Emotion cues modulate trustworthiness judgments in young children

F Caulfield, L Ewing, S Bank… - British Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
By adulthood, people judge trustworthiness from appearances rapidly and reliably.
However, we know little about these judgments in children. This novel study investigates the …

Similarities and differences in Chinese and Caucasian adults' use of facial cues for trustworthiness judgments

F Xu, D Wu, R Toriyama, F Ma, S Itakura, K Lee - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background All cultural groups in the world place paramount value on interpersonal trust.
Existing research suggests that although accurate judgments of another's trustworthiness …

Judging a book by its cover: Children's facial trustworthiness as judged by strangers predicts their real‐world trustworthiness and peer relationships

Q Li, GD Heyman, J Mei, K Lee - Child development, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This longitudinal research examined whether children's facial trustworthiness as judged by
strangers can predict their real‐world trustworthiness and peer acceptance. Adults (Study 1) …

Preferential looking studies of trustworthiness detection confound structural and expressive cues to facial trustworthiness

A Eggleston, M Tsantani, H Over, R Cook - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
On encountering a stranger, we spontaneously attribute to them character traits (eg,
trustworthiness, intelligence) based on their facial appearance. Participants can base …

Do we spontaneously form stable trustworthiness impressions from facial appearance?

A Klapper, R Dotsch, I van Rooij… - Journal of Personality …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
It is widely assumed among psychologists that people spontaneously form trustworthiness
impressions of newly encountered people from their facial appearance. However, most …

Advances in understanding the detectability of trustworthiness from the face: Toward a taxonomy of a multifaceted construct

JP Wilson, NO Rule - Current directions in psychological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers have recently shown increasing interest in assessments of trustworthiness,
devoting much attention to whether trustworthiness can be detected from a person's facial …

Perceiving the facial trustworthiness: Facial age, emotional expression, and attractiveness

Y Li, Z Chen, X Liu, Y Qi - Quarterly journal of experimental …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
People can make trustworthiness judgements based on facial characteristics. However, the
previous findings regarding whether facial age influences interpersonal trust are …