Judging a book by its cover: The influence of facial features on children’s trust judgments

Subjects: Psychology >> Developmental Psychology submitted time 2023-11-09

ZHENG Yuanxia LIU Guoxiong XIN Cong CHENG Li

Abstract： Children can make trust judgments based on facial features as quickly as adults. Such trust judgments based on facial features play a crucial role in children’s knowledge acquisition, social adaptation, and self-protection. The facial features that influence children’s trust judgments include gender, race, facial attractiveness, trustworthiness, competence, dominance, and expressions. These facial features may influence trust judgment from four aspects: perceptual foundation, emotion and affect, general cognitive abilities, and social experience. Based on these factors, a children’s trust judgment model for children based on faces is proposed. Accordingly, suggestions for future research are presented, including: 1) improving research methods, 2) exploring the developmental characteristics of children’s trust judgments based on facial features, and 3) investigating the mechanisms through which facial features influence children’s trust judgments to improve the theoretical model.

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