Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Implicit preference for human trustworthy faces in macaque monkeys

  • Manuela Costa,
  • Alice Gomez,
  • Elodie Barat,
  • Guillaume Lio,
  • Jean-René Duhamel,
  • Angela Sirigu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06987-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Humans infer the trustworthiness of others based on subtle facial features such as the facial width-to-height ratio, but it is not known whether other primates are sensitive to these cues. Here, the authors show that macaque monkeys prefer to look at human faces which appear trustworthy to humans.