The capacity to trust wisely is a critical facilitator of success and prosperity, and it has been
conjectured that people of higher intelligence are better able to detect signs of …

The human face appears to play a key role in signaling social intentions and usually people
form reliable and strong impressions on the basis of someone's facial appearance …

Economic interactions often imply to gauge the trustworthiness of others. Recent studies
showed that when making trust decisions in economic games, people have some accuracy …

Abstract Using the repeated Trust Game, we investigated how first impressions and
experience affect trusting dispositions, beliefs, and behaviors. As in previous research …

People can (to some extent) detect trustworthiness from the facial features of social partners,
and populations which underperform at this task are at a greater risk of abuse. Here we …

Perceivers' inferences about individuals based on their faces often show high interrater
consensus and can even accurately predict behavior in some domains. Here we …

Although cooperation can lead to mutually beneficial outcomes, cooperative actions only
pay off for the individual if others can be trusted to cooperate as well. Identifying trustworthy …

A series of experiments conducted in Japan by Yamagishi and his associates are presented,
all consistently showing that high trusters (as measured with a general trust scale) are more …

Trust is essential for a secure and flourishing social life, but many economic and
philosophical approaches argue that rational people should never extend it, in particular to …

We explored individuals' behavior in relation to level of trust when they encounter attractive
or unattractive faces. Individuals' implicit responses were examined in Experiment 1 and …