Registered report: Social face evaluation: ethnicity-specific differences in the judgement of trustworthiness of faces and facial parts.

ABSTRACT: Social face evaluation is a common and consequential element of everyday life based on the judgement of trustworthiness. However, the particular facial regions that guide such trustworthiness judgements are largely unknown. It is also unclear whether different facial regions are consistently utilized to guide judgments for different ethnic groups, and whether previous exposure to specific ethnicities in one's social environment has an influence on trustworthiness judgements made from faces or facial regions. This registered report addressed these questions through a global online survey study that recruited Asian, Black, Latino, and White raters (N = 4580). Raters were shown full faces and specific parts of the face for an ethnically diverse, sex-balanced set of 32 targets and rated target

SUBMITTER: Schmid I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9622746 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature