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  • Gerontology
  • Social Cognition

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  • Facial trustworthiness perception is crucial for social interactions but can be unreliable.
  • Older adults are at higher risk of fraud, potentially due to their trustworthiness perception.
  • Previous research indicates older adults overestimate facial trustworthiness compared to younger adults.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate age-related differences in facial trustworthiness perception.
  • To determine if interventions like deliberative or affective processing can moderate older adults' trustworthiness ratings.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Compared trustworthiness ratings of unfamiliar faces between older and younger adults.
  • Experiment 2: Tested the effect of encouraging deliberative versus affective processing on older adults' trustworthiness ratings.

Main Results:

  • Older adults rated unfamiliar faces as more trustworthy than younger adults (Experiment 1).
  • Affective processing, but not deliberative processing, reduced older adults' trustworthiness ratings to levels similar to younger adults (Experiment 2).

Conclusions:

  • Older adults exhibit an age-related bias towards overestimating facial trustworthiness.
  • Affective processing may enhance older adults' ability to detect negative cues in faces, improving trustworthiness assessments.