Adolescents gradually improve at detecting trustworthiness from the facial features of unknown adults

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue , 2015, Pages 17-22

  De Neys, Wim ^a   Hopfensitz, Astrid ^b   Bonnefon, Jean François ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Face; Signal; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922207201     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2015.01.002     Document Type: Article

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