People evaluate a stranger's trustworthiness from their facial features in a fraction of a
second, despite common advice “not to judge a book by its cover.” Evaluations of …

Being able to identify trustworthy strangers is a critical social skill. However, whether such
impressions are accurate is debatable. Critically, the field currently lacks a quantitative …

Prior research has found a relationship between perceived facial attractiveness and
perceived personal trustworthiness. We examined the time course of attractiveness relative …

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 …

The ability to discriminate social signals from faces is a fundamental component of human
social interactions whose developmental origins are still debated. In this study, 5‐year‐old …

Face adaptation paradigms have been used extensively to investigate the mechanisms
underlying the processing of several different facial characteristics including face shape …

There are several exogenous factors—such as the presence of facial hair—that can bias a
male's perceived trustworthiness. Research addressing the influence facial hair that has on …

On encountering a stranger, we spontaneously attribute to them character traits (eg,
trustworthiness, intelligence) based on their facial appearance. Participants can base …

It is widely assumed among psychologists that people spontaneously form trustworthiness
impressions of newly encountered people from their facial appearance. However, most …

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 …