Little is known about how older persons determine if someone deserves their trust or not
based on their facial appearance, a process referred to as “facial trustworthiness.” In the past …

While perceptions of facial trustworthiness usually serve as our first references for social
interactions, these impressions may ultimately turn out to be inaccurate or unreliable …

People can make trustworthiness judgements based on facial characteristics. However, the
previous findings regarding whether facial age influences interpersonal trust are …

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 …

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

By adulthood, people judge trustworthiness from appearances rapidly and reliably.
However, we know little about these judgments in children. This novel study investigates the …

While people readily form and rely on trustworthiness impressions from faces, the question
of whether these impressions are accurate remains debated. The present research …

Objective Older adults evaluate faces as being more trustworthy than do younger adults. The
present work examined whether aging is associated with changes in the dynamic activation …

An older adult positivity effect, ie, the tendency for older adults to favor positive over negative
stimulus information more than do younger adults, has been previously shown in attention …

Multiple facial cues such as facial expression and face gender simultaneously influence
facial trustworthiness judgement in adults. The current work was to examine the effect of …