Evaluating face trustworthiness: A model based approach

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-127

  Todorov, Alexander ^a   Baron, Sean G ^a   Oosterhof, Nikolaas N ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Faces; Person perception; Trust worthiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EVALUATION; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRUSTWORTHINESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUTAMEN; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 45149083126     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsn009     Document Type: Article

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