Abstract
When interacting with strangers, people tend to draw inferences pertaining to the strangers’ personality traits based on their facial information, which leads to differential feelings of trust for the strangers. This study explored whether the weightage which individuals’ provide to facial warmth and competence changes with social situations when they have to make decisions based on trust. In experiment 1, a donation context was set, and the participants tended to select a stranger volunteer with feminine face as the recipient of a higher donation amount. In experiment 2, an investment context was set, and while interacting with male trustees, the participants tended to select masculine male faces as recipients of a higher investment amount. However, a contradictory result was obtained when the participants interacted with the female trustees. Participants’ perceptions of the trustworthiness of the four kinds of faces (feminine or masculine male faces, feminine or masculine female faces) predicted the corresponding donation and investment amounts. The results indicated that feminine faces (both male and female) were preferred as recipients of donation, and the warmth in the faces was given more weightage in the donation context (warmth perception). In the investment context (competence perception), participants tended to choose masculine faces as recipients of investment amount among the male faces but showed a preference for feminine faces among female faces. The research provides empirical support for a better understanding of the mechanisms behind highly flexible and complex social interactions among humans.
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Luo, X., Song, J., Guan, J. et al. Influence of facial dimorphism on interpersonal trust: weighing warmth and competence traits in different trust situations. Curr Psychol 43, 2158–2172 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04472-w
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