Facial Trustworthiness Perception Across the Adult Life Span.

ABSTRACT:

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 perception, but the complex interplay between these perceiver and facial characteristics has not been examined.

Method

Adopting an adult life-span developmental approach, 199 adults (aged 22-78 years) rated the trustworthiness of faces that systematically varied in age (young, middle-aged, and older) and emotion (neutral, happy, sad, fearful, angry, and disgusted) from the FACES Lifespan Database.

Results

The study yielded three key results. First, on an aggregated level, facial trustworthiness perception did not differ by perceiver age. Second, all perceivers rated young faces as the most trustw

SUBMITTER: Pehlivanoglu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10215979 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature