Objectives Trust is crucial for successful social interaction across the life span. Perceiver
age, facial age, and facial emotion have been shown to influence trustworthiness …

While perceptions of facial trustworthiness usually serve as our first references for social
interactions, these impressions may ultimately turn out to be inaccurate or unreliable …

People can make trustworthiness judgements based on facial characteristics. However, the
previous findings regarding whether facial age influences interpersonal trust are …

Objective Older adults evaluate faces as being more trustworthy than do younger adults. The
present work examined whether aging is associated with changes in the dynamic activation …

Little is known about how older persons determine if someone deserves their trust or not
based on their facial appearance, a process referred to as “facial trustworthiness.” In the past …

Multiple facial cues such as facial expression and face gender simultaneously influence
facial trustworthiness judgement in adults. The current work was to examine the effect of …

Background Trust is a prerequisite for successful social relations. People tend to form a first
impression of people's trustworthiness based on their facial appearance. The sex of the …

An older adult positivity effect, ie, the tendency for older adults to favor positive over negative
stimulus information more than do younger adults, has been previously shown in attention …

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 …

Objectives: There is growing evidence of a greater focus on positive relative to negative
information in older adulthood. Up to date, the age-related positivity effect in affective …