Common neural mechanisms for the evaluation of facial trustworthiness and emotional expressions as revealed by behavioral adaptation

AD Engell, A Todorov, JV Haxby - Perception, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
People rapidly and automatically evaluate faces along many social dimensions. Here, we
focus on judgments of trustworthiness, which approximate basic valence evaluation of faces …

Evaluating faces on trustworthiness: An extension of systems for recognition of emotions signaling approach/avoidance behaviors

A Todorov - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
People routinely make various trait judgments from facial appearance, and such judgments
affect important social outcomes. These judgments are highly correlated with each other …

Neural time course and brain sources of facial attractiveness vs. trustworthiness judgment

MG Calvo, A Gutiérrez-García, D Beltrán - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2018 - Springer
Prior research has shown that the more (or less) attractive a face is judged, the more (or
less) trustworthy the person is deemed and that some common neural networks are …

Mixed matters: fluency impacts trust ratings when faces range on valence but not on motivational implications

M Olszanowski, OK Kaminska… - Cognition and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Facial features that resemble emotional expressions influence key social evaluations,
including trust. Here, we present four experiments testing how the impact of such expressive …

The contribution of facial regions to judgements of happiness and trustworthiness from dynamic expressions

MG Calvo, P Álvarez-Plaza… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
What expressive facial features and processing mechanisms make a person look
trustworthy, relative to happy? Participants judged the un/happiness or un/trustworthiness of …

Facial attractiveness impressions precede trustworthiness inferences: lower detection thresholds and faster decision latencies

A Gutiérrez-García, D Beltrán, MG Calvo - Cognition and Emotion, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Prior research has found a relationship between perceived facial attractiveness and
perceived personal trustworthiness. We examined the time course of attractiveness relative …

Reverse correlating trustworthy faces in young and older adults

C Éthier-Majcher, S Joubert, F Gosselin - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Enhanced processing of untrustworthiness in natural faces with neutral expressions.

A Lischke, M Junge, AO Hamm, M Weymar - Emotion, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
During social interactions, individuals rapidly and automatically judge others' trustworthiness
on the basis of subtle facial cues. To investigate the behavioral and neural correlates of …

Evaluating face trustworthiness: a model based approach

A Todorov, SG Baron… - Social cognitive and …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Judgments of trustworthiness from faces determine basic approach/avoidance responses
and approximate the valence evaluation of faces that runs across multiple person …

Visual attention mechanisms in happiness versus trustworthiness processing of facial expressions

MG Calvo, EG Krumhuber… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
A happy facial expression makes a person look (more) trustworthy. Do perceptions of
happiness and trustworthiness rely on the same face regions and visual attention …