Cross-cultural perception of trustworthiness: The effect of ethnicity features on evaluation of faces’ observed trustworthiness across four samples

Birkás, Béla; Dzhelyova, Milena; Lábadi, Beatrix; Bereczkei, Tamás; Perrett, David I.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2014.05.012

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“…The present results expand on this finding by showing the effect of facial trustworthiness on people’s trust behavior for both same- and other-race faces. Though some previous studies found other-race partners were perceived as more risky than were same-race partners ( Blair et al, 2004 ; Eberhardt et al, 2006 ), our results are consistent with previous findings of cross-cultural homogeneity regarding facial judgments ( Mcarthur and Berry, 1987 ; Zebrowitz et al, 1993 ; Birkás et al, 2014 ). For instance, an online trust game among Arab and German participants relied on similar facial features to judge trustworthiness cross culture ( Bente et al, 2014 ).…”

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“…Recent studies showed that the trustworthiness evaluations rely on the face shape, not ethnicity. Actually, own-race faces were rated as trustworthy as other-race faces ( Xu et al, 2012 ; Birkás et al, 2014 ; Sofer et al, 2017 ; Strachan et al, 2017 ). Therefore, we expected that the two types of SES information would modulate facial judgment and trust behavior, but race would not.…”

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Are Rich People Perceived as More Trustworthy? Perceived Socioeconomic Status Modulates Judgments of Trustworthiness and Trust Behavior Based on Facial Appearance

2018

Front. Psychol.

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In the era of globalization, people meet strangers from different countries more often than ever. Previous research indicates that impressions of trustworthiness based on facial appearance play an important role in interpersonal cooperation behaviors. The current study examined whether additional information about socioeconomic status (SES), including national prosperity and individual monthly income, affects facial judgments and appearance-based trust decisions. Besides reproducing previous conclusions that trustworthy faces receive more money than untrustworthy faces, the present study showed that high-income individuals were judged as more trustworthy than low-income individuals, and also were given more money in a trust game. However, trust behaviors were not modulated by the nationality of the faces. The present research suggests that people are more likely to trust strangers with a high income, compared with individuals with a low income.

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Are Rich People Perceived as More Trustworthy? Perceived Socioeconomic Status Modulates Judgments of Trustworthiness and Trust Behavior Based on Facial Appearance

2018

Front. Psychol.

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“…Furthermore, face-based trustworthiness judgments are high in agreement among adults (Oosterhof and Todorov, 2008 ; Todorov et al, 2008 ). This agreement occurs even when the faces in question belong to a race with which adults are entirely unfamiliar (Xu et al, 2012 ; Birkás et al, 2014 ). A recent study reports that older and younger adults displayed similar levels of within-age agreement in their impressions of trustworthiness (Zebrowitz et al, 2013 ).…”

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Children's Facial Trustworthiness Judgments: Agreement and Relationship with Facial Attractiveness

Xiuzhi

2016

Front. Psychol.

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This study examined developmental changes in children's abilities to make trustworthiness judgments based on faces and the relationship between a child's perception of trustworthiness and facial attractiveness. One hundred and one 8-, 10-, and 12-year-olds, along with 37 undergraduates, were asked to judge the trustworthiness of 200 faces. Next, they issued facial attractiveness judgments. The results indicated that children made consistent trustworthiness and attractiveness judgments based on facial appearance, but with-adult and within-age agreement levels of facial judgments increased with age. Additionally, the agreement levels of judgments made by girls were higher than those by boys. Furthermore, the relationship between trustworthiness and attractiveness judgments increased with age, and the relationship between two judgments made by girls was closer than those by boys. These findings suggest that face-based trait judgment ability develops throughout childhood and that, like adults, children may use facial attractiveness as a heuristic cue that signals a stranger's trustworthiness.

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“…Specifically, babyface (young age) and old face (old age) enjoyed the higher level of trustworthiness when compared with an adult face (middle age) due to the baby-face overgeneralization effect, a stereotype that children are unreliable witnesses [ 38 , 59 ]. Furthermore, although the evolution of signaling has shown human might consciously adapt visual cues or characteristics to emphasize or conceal heritable facial traits, influencing social perception and recognition, different ethical or cultural groups (e.g., Chinese vs. Canadian [ 42 ] or Caucasian vs. African vs. East Asian vs. South Asian [ 35 ]) tended to share and adopt similar facial cues to judge trustworthiness and attractiveness. However, some ethnic groups (e.g., Hungarians) [ 35 , 38 ] or their implicit ethical attitude [ 63 ] might be biased toward their own facial ethnicity.…”

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Trust in AI Agent: A Systematic Review of Facial Anthropomorphic Trustworthiness for Social Robot Design

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Luximon

2020

Sensors

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As an emerging artificial intelligence system, social robot could socially communicate and interact with human beings. Although this area is attracting more and more attention, limited research has tried to systematically summarize potential features that could improve facial anthropomorphic trustworthiness for social robot. Based on the literature from human facial perception, product, and robot face evaluation, this paper systematically reviews, evaluates, and summarizes static facial features, dynamic features, their combinations, and related emotional expressions, shedding light on further exploration of facial anthropomorphic trustworthiness for social robot design.

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Cross-cultural perception of trustworthiness: The effect of ethnicity features on evaluation of faces’ observed trustworthiness across four samples

Abstract: This is the accepted manuscript of an article published as: Cross-cultural perception of trustworthiness: the effect of ethnicity features on evaluation of faces' observed trustworthiness across four samples.

Cited by 46 publications

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Are Rich People Perceived as More Trustworthy? Perceived Socioeconomic Status Modulates Judgments of Trustworthiness and Trust Behavior Based on Facial Appearance

Are Rich People Perceived as More Trustworthy? Perceived Socioeconomic Status Modulates Judgments of Trustworthiness and Trust Behavior Based on Facial Appearance

Children's Facial Trustworthiness Judgments: Agreement and Relationship with Facial Attractiveness

Trust in AI Agent: A Systematic Review of Facial Anthropomorphic Trustworthiness for Social Robot Design

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