Valid Facial Cues to Cooperation and Trust

By Michael Stirrat, David I. Perrett. Psychology Science, 2010

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Does a competent leader make a good friend? Conflict, ideology and the psychologies of friendship and followership (2015, background): “…behavioral tendencies and dominance makes it even more costly to have a dominant friend than a dominant leader (e.g., Snyder et al., 2011; Stirrat & Perrett, 2010); both because the close nature of the relationship provides greater opportunity for exploitation and because the primary…”
Male facial width is associated with death by contact violence: narrow-faced males are more likely to die from contact violence (2012, background): “…actual aggression (Carre & McCormick, 2008, but see Özener, in press), cheating and deception (Haselhuhn & Wong, 2011), and exploitation of others (Stirrat & Perrett, 2010) in competitive and economic contexts, as well as increased self-reported ability to win “a physical fight with a same sex…”
Body weight, not facial width-to-height ratio, predicts aggression in pro hockey players (2012, background): “…and Mondloch (2009) and Carré, Morrissey, Mondloch, and McCormick (2010) demonstrated that FWHR predicted perceptions of male aggressiveness; and Stirrat and Perrett (2010) showed that participants were less trusting of men with greater FWHRs and that manipulating this feature decreased trust.”
Facial width-to-height ratio in a Turkish population is not sexually dimorphic and is unrelated to aggressive behavior (2012, positive): “In addition to these two studies, Stirrat and Perrett (2010) recently showed that men with higher facial WHR were more likely to exploit the trust of others and that other players were less likely to trust male counterparts with wide rather than narrow faces.”
Telling facial metrics: facial width is associated with testosterone levels in men (2013, background): “Moreover, several studies have demonstrated that individuals are able to discern other individuals’ tendency to aggression (Carré, McCormick, & Mondloch, 2009) and trustworthiness (Stirrat & Perrett, 2010) from fWHR.”
Toward a Unified Science of Hierarchy: Dominance and Prestige are Two Fundamental Pathways to Human Social Rank (2014, background): “Supporting this prediction, men with greater facial WHR demonstrate an increased propensity to cheat and exploit others (Haselhuhn and Wong 2012; Stirrat and Perrett 2010), and are less likely to die from contact violence (Stirrat et al. 2012).”
Trust: An Integrative Review from a Person–Situation Perspective (2015, result): “…accurate in predicting the trustworthiness of others on the basis of facial cues (D. S. Berry, 1990; Bond, Berry, & Omar, 1994; Little et al., 2013; Stirrat & Perrett, 2010), other studies indicate the opposite (e.g., Bonnefon et al., 2013; Efferson & Vogt, 2013; Manson, Gervais, & Kline, 2013;…”
No evidence for sexual dimorphism of facial width-to-height ratio in four large adult samples (2012, methodology): “…the bizygomatic width (maximum horizontal distance from the left facial boundary to the right facial boundary) to upper-face height (vertical distance from the mid-point of the upper-lip to the highest point of the eyelids) ratio from photographs (see Figure la, and Stirrat and Perrett, 2010).”
Seeing is believing? Executives' facial trustworthiness, auditor tenure, and audit fees (2020, positive): “Although empirical evidence on whether facial trustworthiness is correlated with actual behavior are mixed,1 the psychology literature documents that people tend to extend less trust to an individual with lower facial trustworthiness (Chang et al., 2010; Duarte et al., 2012; Rezlescu et al., 2012; S”
Facial width-to-height ratio predicts achievement drive in US presidents (2012, background): “Furthermore, Stirrat and Perrett (2010) observed that males with greater fWHR were more prone to exploit the trust of others and were less trusted than counterparts with lower fWHR.”
Facing a psychopath: Detecting the dark triad from emotionally-neutral faces, using prototypes from the Personality Faceaurus (2011, background): “Indeed, the literature on facial features and dominance generally favors this type of hormonal explanation (e.g., Carré et al., 2009; Stirrat & Perrett, 2010).”
The dynamics of warmth and competence judgments, and their outcomes in organizations (2011, background): “Certain facial cues, such as facial width (Stirrat & Perrett, 2010), may even validly signal trust and cooperation in men.”
Social attributions from faces: determinants, consequences, accuracy, and functional significance. (2015, background): “…games are less willing to trust an individual who has an untrustworthy-looking face (Chang et al. 2010, Rezlescu et al. 2012, Schlicht et al. 2010, Stirrat & Perrett 2010, Tingley 2014, van ’t Wout & Sanfey 2008), even when his past behavior indicates that he can be trusted (Chang et al. 2010,…”
The 3 C's of anthropomorphism: Connection, comprehension, and competition (2019, result): “This stands in contrast to the interpersonal considerations that usually govern pref‐ erences for other people (Goodwin, Piazza, & Rozin, 2014) and often lead to negative responses to dominant‐looking human faces (Carré, McCormick, & Mondloch, 2009; Stirrat & Perrett, 2010).”