Is your Face Trustworthy?

Okay, so I was looking around and stumbled across this article from PsychologyToday.com which was talking about perception and a persons face. Walking around school, work, or anywhere you see all kinds of people, and with just one quick glance you immediately have a 'feeling' of the person you saw. Whether it's good, bad, or somewhere in between we all do it (and don't lie, you know you have). I wouldn't say it's a shameful thing to do, but most of the time our first impression isn't right (think of the saying 'You can't always judge a book by its cover') which is why you can't rely solely on a persons appearance.

The article itself was explaining that sometimes we internally judge someone by the width of a persons face. The experiment was a trust game, where one guy would be given $5 and would be given a choice to keep the money or 'invest' which would mean they would give it to another person. If they kept the money then there would be no risk and would be ahead $5, but if they did invest the only thing they had to go on was a picture of the person they would be giving the money to, and that person would get $10 and could either spilt and give half back to the 'investor' or keep it all for themselves. I actually did a similar game in AP Psych which my group ended up trusting the other group and we lost all of our money.

The end results were that women actually had no correlation in how they deemed someone trustworthy. But men on the other hand actually had a fairly strong correlation between trustworthiness and facial width. The wider the face, the less a man would trust to invest with him.

In the article it had two computer rendered images a a mans' face, one that was slightly wider than the other. Looking at them I can kinda see that a wider face-to me at least-might seem more menacing I suppose than the thinner face, but I might just think that because I just got done reading an article telling me I internally think that. But just don't go around now and not trust anyone with a wide face, because it is just what we perceive, not what is real and true.