Over the past decade, information technology has dramatically changed the context in which
economic transactions take place. Increasingly, transactions are computer-mediated, so that …

First impressions of social traits, such as trustworthiness or dominance, are reliably
perceived in faces, and despite their questionable validity they can have considerable real …

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 …

Abstract Information drawn from faces at the very first encounter can be essential in guiding
current and subsequent behavior. These decisions also rely on expectations about what are …

People rapidly make attributions of others' personality, cognitive abilities, and intentions
based on facial appearance alone, which in turn, can have consequential outcomes. One …

Despite advancements in computer graphics and artificial intelligence, it remains unclear
which aspects of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) make them identifiable as human-like …

A paradoxical finding from recent studies of face perception is that observers are error-prone
and inconsistent when judging the identity of unfamiliar faces, but nevertheless reasonably …

General, spontaneous evaluations of strangers based on their faces have been shown to
reflect judgments of these persons' intention and ability to harm. These evaluations can be …

Today more than ever, we are asked to evaluate the realness, truthfulness and
trustworthiness of our social world. Here, we focus on how people evaluate realistic-looking …

Computer-generated (CG) face images are common in video games, advertisements, and
other media. CG faces vary in their degree of realism, a factor that impacts viewer reactions …