Dynamic impression updating of face trustworthiness based on nonverbal cues and the moderating role of social distance

Key Points

• This research investigates how nonverbal cues and social distance modulate face trustworthiness impressions.
• Used impression updating and imagination paradigms
• Applied eye tracking technology
• Examined the moderating effects of perceiver-target cue social distance
• Nonverbal cues cause dynamic assimilation contrast in trustworthiness impressions
• Social distance impacts trustworthiness impressions through cross-dimensional assimilation effects
• Perceiver-target social distance influences impression updating indirectly via relative attention values