Is beauty only skin deep? Children don't seem to think so, like adults and babies, children think the uglier you are, the less trustworthy you are.

Our ability to make this trustworthiness judgement develops as we grow, becoming more consistent as we approach adulthood, and, girls are better at it than boys.

Next, the researchers looked at the ratings of trustworthiness and attractiveness given to each face. They found a strong, direct relationship between the two traits -- the faces deemed more trustworthy were also considered to be more attractive.

The procedure for the attractiveness judgment was similar to that used for the trustworthiness judgment. The participants were instructed to judge facial attractiveness using a 3-point scale with “unattractive / not sure / attractive” (or “attractive / not sure / unattractive,” counterbalanced among participants, and the label “not sure” was interpreted as “neither unattractive nor attractive”); then, the participants continued to rate the degree of unattractiveness or attractiveness on a different 3-point scale with “a little / quite / very” (or “very / quite / a little,” counterbalanced among participants). Thus, combining the two refined scales into a single overall rating scale created a score that ranged from –3 (“very unattractive”) to 3 (“very attractive”), with 0 indicating “neither unattractive nor attractive.”

As expected, our work provides some evidence that facial trustworthiness judgment abilities gradually improve during childhood.

We also found that the relationships between trustworthiness and attractiveness judgments in children groups were significantly weaker than that of the adult group. One explanation for this age effect may be that, facial experience and social experience might serve to refine this link between facial attractiveness and trustworthiness. Unlike adults, children participants are more likely to use unique standards (such as faces that resemble their own or the “look” of an important person) to judge facial trustworthiness rather than the shared standards used across other raters.

tuco wrote:From the paper:

The procedure for the attractiveness judgment was similar to that used for the trustworthiness judgment. The participants were instructed to judge facial attractiveness using a 3-point scale with “unattractive / not sure / attractive” (or “attractive / not sure / unattractive,” counterbalanced among participants, and the label “not sure” was interpreted as “neither unattractive nor attractive”); then, the participants continued to rate the degree of unattractiveness or attractiveness on a different 3-point scale with “a little / quite / very” (or “very / quite / a little,” counterbalanced among participants). Thus, combining the two refined scales into a single overall rating scale created a score that ranged from –3 (“very unattractive”) to 3 (“very attractive”), with 0 indicating “neither unattractive nor attractive.”

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/ ... 00499/full

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This, friends, is not science of elementary particles indeed. How to examine attractiveness? Well, you ask people, 8-12 year old children respectively. If I start thread, not I but .., on attractiveness, its definition and meaning, we will be here forever. Unless they had attractiveness specifically defined and explained to the kids, they probably went like .. yeah like, dont like, I dunno .. and same with trustworthiness. So maybe they were essentially asking the same question twice.

As expected, our work provides some evidence that facial trustworthiness judgment abilities gradually improve during childhood.

Yup, learning computer, given enough samples.

We also found that the relationships between trustworthiness and attractiveness judgments in children groups were significantly weaker than that of the adult group. One explanation for this age effect may be that, facial experience and social experience might serve to refine this link between facial attractiveness and trustworthiness. Unlike adults, children participants are more likely to use unique standards (such as faces that resemble their own or the “look” of an important person) to judge facial trustworthiness rather than the shared standards used across other raters.

Oh that is how they get fucked up .. social experience lol

juju7 wrote:Yes but Donald Trump skews the result.

Rachel Bronwyn wrote:Everyone trusts a fat girl.

the_5th_ape wrote:....so, like adults and babies, children think the uglier you are, the less trustworthy you are.

chairman bill wrote:On the plus side, animals don't give a shit.