RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1016/j.joep.2015.01.002
A1 Bonnefon, Jean-François
A1 De Neys, Wim
A1 Hopfensitz, Astrid
T1 Adolescents gradually improve at detecting trustworthiness from the facial features of unknown adults
JF Journal of Economic Psychology
YR 2015
FD 2015-04
VO vol.47
SP 17
OP 22
K1 Trust
K1 Adolescence
K1 Face
K1 Signal
AB People can (to some extent) detect trustworthiness from the facial features of social partners, and populations which underperform at this task are at a greater risk of abuse. Here we focus on situations in which adolescents make a decision whether to trust an unknown adult. Adolescents aged 13-18 (N = 540) played a trust game, in which they made decisions whether to trust unknown adults based on their picture. We show that trusting decisions become increasingly accurate with age, from a small effect size at age 13 to an effect size 2.5 times larger at age 18. We consider the implications of this result for the development of prosociality and the possible mechanisms underlying the development of trustworthiness detection from faces.
PB Elsevier
SN 0167-4870
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/16678/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/28961