Can I Trust You? Laterality of Facial Trustworthiness in an Economic Game.

The article focuses on a study which examines the lateral posing bias for displaying trustworthiness during a trust game in which participants and their virtual partners cooperated or did not cooperate with their counterparts to earn a monetary reward. Topics discussed include the number of posers s...

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Published in:	Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 21 - 35
Main Authors:	Okubo, Matia, Ishikawa, Kenta, Kobayashi, Akihiro, Suzuki, Hikaru
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Mar2017
Subjects:	Japan Analysis of variance Emotions Facial expression Games Trust Undergraduates Chi-squared test Comparative studies Face Handedness Photography Posture Probability theory Questionnaires Research funding Statistics T-test (Statistics) Sample size (Statistics) Data analysis Repeated measures design Descriptive statistics One-way analysis of variance
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Summary:	The article focuses on a study which examines the lateral posing bias for displaying trustworthiness during a trust game in which participants and their virtual partners cooperated or did not cooperate with their counterparts to earn a monetary reward. Topics discussed include the number of posers showing the left or right cheek as a function of cooperativeness and the mean rating of facial trustworthiness as a function of posing orientation and cooperativeness.