Untrusted under threat: on the superior bond between trustworthiness and threat in face-context integration

S Mattavelli, M Masi, M Brambilla - Cognition and Emotion, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The face is a powerful source to make inferences about one's trustworthiness. Recent
studies demonstrated that facial trustworthiness is influenced by the level of threat conveyed …

[HTML][HTML] The “Happy Face Killer” in the eyes of the beholder: Relational encoding of facial emotions in context influences trustworthiness attributions

S Mattavelli, GC Fiamberti, M Masi… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Research on face perception has established that faces surrounded by threatening contexts
are perceived as less trustworthy. Moreover, recent studies revealed that such a face-context …

Face–context integration and trustworthiness evaluation

M Brambilla, S Mattavelli, M Masi - European Review of Social …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Judgements of trustworthiness based on facial features have mainly been investigated by
presenting faces in isolation. However, real-life situations often involve contextual cues …

Not just about faces in context: Face–context relation moderates the impact of contextual threat on facial trustworthiness

S Mattavelli, M Masi… - Personality and Social …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

The influence of visual context on the evaluation of facial trustworthiness

M Brambilla, M Biella, JB Freeman - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Evaluation of facial trustworthiness is often thought to be based on facial features
and relatively immune to visual context. However, we rarely encounter an isolated facial …

Faces and sounds becoming one: Cross-modal integration of facial and auditory cues in judging trustworthiness

M Brambilla, M Masi, S Mattavelli, M Biella - Social Cognition, 2021 - Guilford Press
Face processing has mainly been investigated by presenting facial expressions without any
contextual information. However, in everyday interactions with others, the sight of a face is …

Evaluating face trustworthiness: a model based approach

A Todorov, SG Baron… - Social cognitive and …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Judgments of trustworthiness from faces determine basic approach/avoidance responses
and approximate the valence evaluation of faces that runs across multiple person …

Evaluating faces on trustworthiness: An extension of systems for recognition of emotions signaling approach/avoidance behaviors

A Todorov - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
People routinely make various trait judgments from facial appearance, and such judgments
affect important social outcomes. These judgments are highly correlated with each other …

Trustworthiness detection from faces: Does reliance on facial impressions pay off?

B Jaeger, B Oud, T Williams, E Krumhuber, E Fehr… - 2020 - research.tilburguniversity.edu
While people readily form and rely on trustworthiness impressions from faces, the question
of whether these impressions are accurate remains debated. The present research …

Enhanced processing of untrustworthiness in natural faces with neutral expressions.

A Lischke, M Junge, AO Hamm, M Weymar - Emotion, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
During social interactions, individuals rapidly and automatically judge others' trustworthiness
on the basis of subtle facial cues. To investigate the behavioral and neural correlates of …