Time, space and feature similarity determine attractive and repulsive serial biases in trustworthiness impressions
Fiammetta Marini, Clare A M Sutherland, Linda Jeffery, Mauro Manassi · 2026
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Fiammetta Marini and colleagues study how recent faces sway snap judgements in this 2026 psychology paper. Whether a stranger looks trustworthy shapes choices from hiring to court cases, and these first impressions were long treated as fixed.
In a rating task, volunteers judged faces after seeing earlier ones. Long exposure to a first face pushed ratings away from it, while brief exposure pulled ratings toward it. Seeing a similar face strengthened the pull, while a different face caused pushback. Distance between faces changed the pull's strength but not the pushback. The team says basic timing, spacing, and likeness shape trust impressions, not just memory or choice habits.
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| CREATOR | Fiammetta Marini, Clare A M Sutherland, Linda Jeffery, Mauro Manassi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 93203 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |