Face your heart

Resting vagally mediated Heart Rate Variability Shapes Social Attributions from facial appearance

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ID21627680
AutoresArianna Bagnis (0000-0002-5588-6000, University of Bologna, autor de correspondencia), Cristina Ottaviani (0000-0002-5240-4387, Fondazione Santa Lucia), Katia Mattarozzi (0000-0003-1784-750X, University of Bologna)
Año2024
Volumen43
Número2
Páginas1855-1863
Fecha de publicación2024-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCurrent Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1046-1310 • E-ISSN: 1936-4733
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s12144-023-04339-0
OpenAlexW4322741020
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas66

Phylogenetic theories suggest resting vagally mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV) as a biomarker for adaptive behavior in social encounters. Until now, no study has examined whether vmHRV can predict individual differences in inferring personality traits and intentions from facial appearance. To test this hypothesis, resting vmHRV was recorded in 83 healthy individuals before they rated a series of faces based on their first impression of trustworthiness, dominance, typicality, familiarity, caring, and attractiveness. We found an association between individual differences in vmHRV and social attributions from facial appearance. Specifically, higher levels of vmHRV predicted higher scores on ratings of caring and trustworthiness, suggesting that strangers’ faces are more likely to be perceived as safer. The present results suggest that higher levels of vmHRV (compared with lower levels of vmHRV) are associated with the tendency to minimize social evaluative threat and maximize affiliative social cues at a first glance of others’ faces

Attractiveness · Attribution · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Heart rate · Heart rate variability · Perception · Personality · Physical attractiveness · Social cognition · Social perception · Trustworthiness · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology

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