Research has shown that adults are better at processing faces of the most represented ethnic group in their social environment compared to faces from other ethnicities, and that they rely more on holistic/configural information for identity discrimination in own-race than other-race faces. Here, we applied a spatial filtering approach to the investigation of trustworthiness perception to explore whether the information on which trustworthiness judgments are based differs according to face race. European participants (N = 165) performed an online-delivered pairwise preference task in which they were asked to select the face they would trust more within pairs randomly selected from validated White and Asian broad spectrum, low-pass filter and high-pass filter trustworthiness continua. Results confirmed earlier demonstrations that trustworthiness perception generalizes across face ethnicity, but discrimination of trustworthiness intensity relied more heavily on the LSF content of the images for own-race faces compared to other-race faces. Results are discussed in light of previous work on emotion discrimination and the hypothesis of overlapping perceptual mechanisms subtending social perception of faces.

Silvestri, V., Arioli, M., Baccolo, E., Macchi Cassia, V. (2022). Sensitivity to trustworthiness cues in own- And other-race faces- And role of spatial frequency information. PLOS ONE, 17(9) [10.1371/journal.pone.0272256].

Sensitivity to trustworthiness cues in own- And other-race faces- And role of spatial frequency information

Silvestri, V
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Arioli, M;Baccolo, E;Macchi Cassia, V
2022

Abstract

Research has shown that adults are better at processing faces of the most represented ethnic group in their social environment compared to faces from other ethnicities, and that they rely more on holistic/configural information for identity discrimination in own-race than other-race faces. Here, we applied a spatial filtering approach to the investigation of trustworthiness perception to explore whether the information on which trustworthiness judgments are based differs according to face race. European participants (N = 165) performed an online-delivered pairwise preference task in which they were asked to select the face they would trust more within pairs randomly selected from validated White and Asian broad spectrum, low-pass filter and high-pass filter trustworthiness continua. Results confirmed earlier demonstrations that trustworthiness perception generalizes across face ethnicity, but discrimination of trustworthiness intensity relied more heavily on the LSF content of the images for own-race faces compared to other-race faces. Results are discussed in light of previous work on emotion discrimination and the hypothesis of overlapping perceptual mechanisms subtending social perception of faces.
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trustworthiness; spatial frequencies; ethnicity; perception; emotion
English
6-set-2022
2022
17
9
e0272256
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Silvestri, V., Arioli, M., Baccolo, E., Macchi Cassia, V. (2022). Sensitivity to trustworthiness cues in own- And other-race faces- And role of spatial frequency information. PLOS ONE, 17(9) [10.1371/journal.pone.0272256].
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