Face perception is crucial to social interactions, yet people vary in how easily they can
recognize their friends, verify an identification document or notice someone's smile. There …

We spontaneously attribute to strangers a wide variety of character traits based on their
facial appearance. While these first impressions have little or no basis in reality, they exert a …

Impressions from faces are made remarkably quickly and they can underpin behaviour in a
wide variety of social contexts. Over the last decade many studies have sought to trace the …

Two questions have motivated much of our research. What is the structure of social
judgments from faces and what is the perceptual basis of these judgments? Twelve years …

The success of human cooperation crucially depends on mechanisms enabling individuals
to detect unreliability in their conspecifics. Yet, how such epistemic vigilance is achieved …

Facial impressions have long been argued to be driven by two independent dimensions of
trustworthiness and dominance. However, in an intergroup context, we reasoned that these …

Faces are among the most important visual stimuli that humans perceive in everyday life.
While extensive literature has examined emotional processing and social evaluations of …

Conspiracy theories express mistrust in common explanations and epistemic authorities.
Independent of concrete content, the extent of endorsing conspiracy theories has also …

This article explores the effects of the state on the creation of social trust. It identifies four
theories connecting these two variables. The first and probably most important one stresses …

People readily (but often inaccurately) attribute traits to others based on faces. While the
details of attributions depend on the language available to describe social traits …