Carl Smith
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508 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2018
last heard Sep 2020
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What proportion of our trust assessments do you think come from how someone's face looks and then all these other visual cues?
I've read that when you flash someone's face on a screen for a fraction of a second, that's enough for us to rate whether we trust them or not and how much.
And I wonder whether these other things like posture and clothing, even a beard, I mean, do those work as quickly in terms of formulating these judgments?
Do you think these other visual cues might be more accurate than simply looking at their features on their face?
Now, I'm interested in this idea of manipulating posture, movement, and other visual cues, because I imagine whether it's how someone holds their face or their body or dresses or whatever, this is something you can manipulate to trick someone into trusting you.
This is All In The Mind.
I'm Carl Smith, bringing you today's story about what influences whether we trust a stranger or not in those first moments of spotting them before you've even had a chance to interact.
Aside from the face and facial expressions, we've heard more about the other visual cues we pick up based on someone's movements, what they're wearing, and even the context we see them in.
But whether we decide to trust a stranger is as much about how that stranger presents to us as it is about our own preconceived notions of who we think is worth trusting.
For example, there's a growing body of research in this space examining so-called kinship and familiarity in faces.
This research focuses on how similar someone looks to us or how similar they are to those we often see.
and whether these can have an impact on perceived trustworthiness.
Dr. Claire Sutherland.
So tell me about your study.
I wonder then how much of it is, you know, what is in the face and what is in the eye of the person deciding whether to trust or not.
But this idea of trusting those who we recognize or who look similar to us is where some very thorny questions start to emerge.
If we're primed to trust people who look the same as us or those we've had more experiences with,
then what happens when we encounter people from other cultures or racial groups where we don't have much prior information to draw upon?
Dr. Anna Buchler-Eitig from Leibniz University Hanover says one way to frame this issue is using so-called in-groups and out-groups.
Essentially, we define our in-group based on those people we see and interact with positively and often.
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