ArticleScientific reports2023
Assessing the roles of shape prototypicality and sexual dimorphism in ratings of the trustworthiness of faces.
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- Belief in Gender Role Stereotypes Moderates the Use of Gender Typicality Cues when Making Sexual Orientation Judgements from Faces.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Further evidence that averageness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, predict facial attractiveness judgments.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- No Evidence that People Born to Older Parents Show Weaker Preferences for Younger Adult Faces.Adaptive human behavior and physiology · 2025Article
- Facial attractiveness does not modify the perceived trustworthiness of ethnic minority men.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Role of Perceived Health in Preferences for Average Face Shapes.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
- No Evidence That Women's Sociosexuality or Self-Perceived Mate Value Predict Their Preferences for Men's Face-Shape Masculinity.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
- Re-evaluating the Role of Partnership-Related Perceptions in Women's Preferences for Men with Masculine Face Shapes.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Perceptions of the trustworthiness of faces predict important social outcomes, including economic exchange and criminal sentencing decisions. However, the specific facial characteristics that drive trustworthiness perceptions remain poorly understood. Here we investigated this issue by exploring possible relationships between ratings of the trustworthiness of face images and objective assessments of two aspects of face shape that researchers have previously argued are important for perceptions of trustworthiness: distinctiveness and sexual dimorphism. Here we report that faces with more distinctive shapes are rated as less trustworthy, but that sexual dimorphism of face shape is not significantly correlated with trustworthiness ratings. These results suggest that distinctiveness of face shape plays a more important role in trustworthiness perceptions than does sexual dimorphism and suggest that perceptions of trustworthiness may stem, at least in part, from the 'anomalous-is-bad' stereotype.
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