The importance of facial trustworthiness for human interaction and communication is difficult
to exaggerate. Reflections on daily experience indicate that the presence of a human face …

Humans rapidly make inferences about individuals' trustworthiness on the basis of their
facial features and perceived group membership. We examine whether incidental learning …

Character judgments, based on facial appearance, impact both perceivers' and targets'
interpersonal decisions and behaviors. Nonetheless, the resilience of such effects in the …

Nonverbal facial signals provide valuable information for successful social interactions.
Previous findings showed left-right facial asymmetry in attractiveness, smiling, and health in …

People are able to recognize faces from their own ethnic group more easily than faces from
other ethnicities. Ethnicity information also easily activates perceptual biases; therefore, the …

Faces convey a multitude of information in social interaction, among which are
trustworthiness and attractiveness. Humans process and evaluate these two dimensions …

People rapidly and automatically evaluate faces along many social dimensions. Here, we
focus on judgments of trustworthiness, which approximate basic valence evaluation of faces …

People routinely make various trait judgments from facial appearance, and such judgments
affect important social outcomes. These judgments are highly correlated with each other …

Background Many human interactions are built on trust, so widespread confidence in first
impressions generally favors individuals with trustworthy-looking appearances. However …

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 …