Accuracy and consensus in judgments of trustworthiness from faces: behavioral and neural correlates.

ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION Accuracy and Consensus in Judgments of Trustworthiness From Faces: Behavioral and Neural Correlates

Perceivers’ inferences about individuals based on their faces often show high interrater consensus and can even accurately predict behavior in some domains. Here we investigated the consensus and accuracy of judgments of trustworthiness. In Study 1, we showed that the type of photo judged makes a significant difference for whether an individual is judged as trustworthy. In Study 2, we found tha...

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Accuracy and Consensus in Judgments of Trustworthiness From Faces: Behavioral and Neural Correlates

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

People rapidly and automatically evaluate faces along many social dimensions. Here, we focus on judgments of trustworthiness, which approximate basic valence evaluation of faces, and test whether these judgments are an overgeneralization of the perception of emotional expressions. We used a behavioral adaptation paradigm to investigate whether the previously noted perceptual similarities betwee...

Who Can You Trust? Behavioral and Neural Differences Between Perceptual and Memory-Based Influences

Decisions about whether to trust someone can be influenced by competing sources of information, such as analysis of facial features versus remembering specific information about the person. We hypothesized that such sources can differentially influence trustworthiness judgments depending on the circumstances in which judgments are made. In our experiments, subjects first learned face-word assoc...

Disinhibited reactive attachment disorder symptoms impair social judgements from faces.

Typically developing adults and children can rapidly reach consensus regarding the trustworthiness of unfamiliar faces. Maltreated children can have problems with trusting others, yet those with the disinhibited form of reactive attachment disorder (dRAD) can be indiscriminately friendly. Whether children with dRAD symptoms appraise and conform to typical judgements about trustworthiness of fac...