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

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.

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