![]() ![]() Among spouses, this effect was impervious to marriage length. ![]() ![]() Results revealed that structural facial characteristics, suggestive of greater trustworthiness, predicted positively biased, global informant evaluations of a target’s personality, among both spouses and strangers. Oosterhof and Todorov’s (in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:11087–11092, 2008) computer-based model of face evaluation was used to generate facial trait scores on trustworthiness, dominance, and attractiveness, based on participants’ photographs. A subset of the initial sample completed a shortened version of the Big Five Inventory in response to the pictures of other opposite sex participants (with whom they were unacquainted). Participants were also photographed, while they were requested to maintain an emotionally neutral expression. To address this question, we had 51 elderly long-term married couples complete self and informant versions of a Big Five Inventory. Nonetheless, the resilience of such effects in the face of longer acquaintanceship duration is yet to be determined. Character judgments, based on facial appearance, impact both perceivers’ and targets’ interpersonal decisions and behaviors. ![]()
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