Trustworthy-Looking Face Meets Brown Eyes

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F13%3A10194282" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/13:10194282 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053285" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053285</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053285" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0053285</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Trustworthy-Looking Face Meets Brown Eyes

Original language description

We tested whether eye color influences perception of trustworthiness. Facial photographs of 40 female and 40 male students were rated for perceived trustworthiness. Eye color had a significant effect, the brown-eyed faces being perceived as more trustworthy than the blue-eyed ones. Geometric morphometrics, however, revealed significant correlations between eye color and face shape. Thus, face shape likewise had a significant effect on perceived trustworthiness but only for male faces, the effect for female faces not being significant. To determine whether perception of trustworthiness was being influenced primarily by eye color or by face shape, we recolored the eyes on the same male facial photos and repeated the test procedure. Eye color now had no effect on perceived trustworthiness. We concluded that although the brown-eyed faces were perceived as more trustworthy than the blue-eyed ones, it was not brown eye color per se that caused the stronger perception of trustworthiness but r

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP407%2F11%2F1464" target="_blank" >GAP407/11/1464: Linking psychological characteristics with morphospace of human face and body: possible associations to iris color</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

ES - SPAIN

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000313551500057

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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