Faces displaying dominance and trustworthiness do not automatically capture attention.

ABSTRACT: Contesting the viewpoint that personality impressions are spontaneously extracted from triggering facial cues, recent research suggests that such inferences emerge only when instructions are given to judge individuals in terms of the trait characteristics of interest. Notwithstanding this demonstration, however, it is possible that faces displaying fundamental character traits may exert influence over lower-level aspects of cognition that precede-and serve as the foundation for-impression formation. For example, paralleling work on emotional expressions, faces conveying important traits may automatically attract attentional resources. Accordingly, employing a dot-probe task, the current research explored whether faces varying in dominance (Experiments 1 & 2) and trustworthiness (Experiment

SUBMITTER: Sharma Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12728085 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature