Individuals often have to decide whether to trust others at zero or little acquaintance. In this
instance, individuals rely on social stereotypes as a guide to their trust decisions. Yet little is …

Trust is a foundation of interpersonal communication. Faces have a significant impact on
trust judgments, and separate research demonstrates that group membership also …

The role that shared group membership plays in decisions to trust others is now well
established within social psychology. A close reading of this literature, however, shows that …

The success and well-being theory of trust holds that higher social class is associated with
higher generalized trust, and this association has been well documented in empirical …

When interacting with strangers, people tend to draw inferences pertaining to the strangers'
personality traits based on their facial information, which leads to differential feelings of trust …

Trustworthiness perceptions are based on facial features that are seen as trustworthy by
most people (eg, resemblance to a smile) and features that are only seen as trustworthy by a …

A central line of inquiry into the sources of generalized trust concerns how particularized
trust (trust in known others) extends to generalized trust (default expectations about the …

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 …

To be successful in social life, perceivers need to form impressions of other people's
trustworthiness. Current models of this process emphasize the role of specific descriptive …

In this paper, we investigate the genetic and psychological underpinnings of generalized
social trust, an orientation that refers to one's expectations about the trustworthiness of …