Sensitivity to trustworthiness cues in own- and other-race faces: The role of spatial frequency information

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272256
• Publication Date: 2022-09-06T17:33:46Z
• Authors: Valentina Silvestri; Martina Arioli; Elisa Baccolo; Viola Macchi Cassia
• Keywords: Trustworthiness

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