Fiammetta Marini

Excited to be speaking at this event with colleagues from @abdnpsych.bsky.social! I'll be diving into how context shapes who looks trustworthy and how that plays out in The Traitors🏰

[1/4] Did you know that the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen is the oldest psychology department in the UK? @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

The past week at #ECVP2025 in Mainz was fantastic! So much interesting research and great people✨ Thank you all and safe travel back home!

I really liked @dididu.bsky.social’s booth at #ECVP2025 Illusion Night. Tried Celebrity EYE-Q, what a brilliant and fun way to showcase holistic face processing!

Happy to share that I have completed my PhD! I am so grateful to my fantastic supervisors, inspiring examiners, and the wonderful community at @abdnpsych.bsky.social for making this journey over the past three years of my PhD so enriching✨

Hello #PhD students!
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🚨 ALERT 🚨 The annual EASTBIO PhD recruitment competition is now open! Exciting projects are available in our School of Psychology. Deadline is January 17th.
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I've created a feed associated with theFace Processing starter pack (go.bsky.app/9A7EJsU).

You can post to the feed using any of the following tags:
#FaceMatching, #FaceMemory, #FaceLearning, #FaceIdentification, #FacialAttactiveness, #FacialFirstImpressions, #FaceProcessing, #FaceRecognition

Thanks to co-authors @mauromanassi.bsky.social, Clare Sutherland, Linda Jeffery, Sarah Maisey, to Visual Cognition journal for publishing us, and to the University of Aberdeen! 8/8

Taken together, our findings confirm that (1) temporal context shapes trustworthiness impressions, by showing that visual adaptation affects trust judgements, and that (2) past emotional expressions influence following impressions of trustworthiness and dominance. 7/8

Our results support the emotion overgeneralization hypothesis (suggesting that we overgeneralise subtle emotional cues in neutral faces when judging others' traits), and help understanding why we form such impressions, despite little evidence they reflect others’ true traits. 6/8

Importantly, using anti-expressions (stimuli designed to bias neutral faces toward the original expression and minimise semantic adaptation), suggest a common perceptual mechanism in the visual representation of emotional expressions and facial trait evaluations. 5/8

Moreover, we found that trustworthiness impressions can be shaped by other facial characteristics: adaptation to different facial expressions (happy/angry/fear) significantly influenced subsequent trust and dominance evaluations. 4/8

We found that prolonged exposure to (un)trustworthy faces biases the impression of subsequent faces away from the past (so new faces look more (un)trustworthy). Building on previous evidence, this result confirms a robust face aftereffect for trustworthiness impressions.
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Although most research has considered facial trust impressions to be stable over time, face perception in general is dynamically influenced by the temporal context history, as evidenced by visual adaptation. 2/8

Does past visual experience influence facial first impressions? Our new research with C Sutherland, L Jeffery, S Maisey, and @mauromanassi.bsky.social shows that trustworthiness/dominance impressions are influenced by previously seen faces, even by emotional expressions.

tinyurl.com/bdh3mcf4

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