Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2017
Journal / Book Title
Current directions in psychological science
Abstract
Researchers have recently shown increasing interest in assessments of trustworthiness, devoting much attention to whether trustworthiness can be detected from a person’s facial appearance. This question has been investigated along diverse behavioral dimensions, using a wide variety of targets, and with great inconsistency in results. Here, we call for greater precision in defining trustworthiness. We review various subdomains of trustworthiness perception and argue that developing a more highly specified taxonomy of trustworthiness will allow for better predictions about when trustworthiness can be judged on the basis of appearance, for more precision in estimating how accurate people are in making such judgments, and for more accurate information regarding the specific cues relevant to inferring trustworthiness in each domain.
DOI
10.1177/0963721416686211
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Wilson, John Paul and Rule, Nicholas O., "Advances in Understanding the Detectability of Trustworthiness from the Face: Toward a Taxonomy of a Multifaceted Construct" (2017). Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 73.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/psychology-facpubs/73
Published Citation
Wilson, J. P., & Rule, N. O. (2017). Advances in understanding the detectability of trustworthiness from the face: Toward a taxonomy of a multifaceted construct. Current directions in psychological science, 26(4), 396-400.