Deciding whether an unfamiliar person is trustworthy is one of the most important decisions
in social environments. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to show that the …

Recent findings show that typical faces are judged as more trustworthy than atypical faces.
However, it is not clear whether employment of typicality cues in trustworthiness judgment …

The current work examined contributions of emotion-resembling facial cues to impression
formation. There exist common facial cues that make people look emotional, male or female …

We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to tap the temporal dynamics of first impressions
based on face appearance. Participants were asked to evaluate briefly presented faces for …

Impressions of trustworthiness based on facial cues influence many consequential
decisions, in spite of their (generally) poor accuracy. Here, we test whether reliance on facial …

Decisions about whether to trust someone can be influenced by competing sources of
information, such as analysis of facial features versus remembering specific information …

Evidence does not support the claim that observers universally recognize basic emotions
from signals on the face. The percentage of observers who matched the face with the …

We tested whether eye color influences perception of trustworthiness. Facial photographs of
40 female and 40 male students were rated for perceived trustworthiness. Eye color had a …

Inferences of others' social traits from their faces can influence how we think and behave
towards them, but little is known about how perceptions of people's traits may affect …

Emotionally expressive faces have shown enhanced detectability over neutral faces, but
little is known about the effect of eye gaze on detecting the presence of emotional faces …