Accuracy and consensus in judgments of trustworthiness from faces: Behavioral and neural correlates

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 409-426

  Rule, Nicholas O ^a   Krendl, Anne C ^b   Ivcevic, Zorana ^c   Ambady, Nalini ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Cognitive neuroscience; Criminality; Face perception; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ART; ARTICLE; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; EXTRAVERSION; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC FIGURE; TRUST;

AMYGDALA; CRIME; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC; TRUST;

EID: 84880012949     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031050     Document Type: Article

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