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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Thanks to co-authors Clare Sutherland, Linda Jeffery and @mauromanassi.bsky.social , to @bmc.springernature.com for publishing us, and @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social aberdeen.bsky.social @abdnpsych.bsky.social! 6/6

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Our findings provide evidence for, and dissociate, attractive and repulsive serial biases in trustworthiness impressions, with implications ranging from everyday interactions to eyewitness identification. 5/6

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

These biases also depend on identity similarity and spatial proximity. Trust impressions of the current face are attracted towards the past when successive faces look similar and appear nearby, but are repelled away from the past when they are more distinct and appear in different locations. 4/6

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We found that exposure to previous faces can bias current trustworthiness impressions. Brief exposure to a face makes the successive face seem more similar to the previous one (serial dependence), whereas longer exposure pushes trust impressions away from the past face (negative aftereffects). 3/6

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Judging trustworthiness influences economic decisions, hiring outcomes, and even legal sentences. Are they determined only by the face we are currently looking at, or does the previous face seen influence the current impression? We investigated this with a trustworthiness judgement task. 2/6

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Can faces seen in the past influence how trustworthy a new face looks? Our new paper with Clare Sutherland, Linda Jeffery, and @mauromanassi.bsky.social, shows that impressions of trustworthiness are dynamically shaped by recent visual experience. Link to the article: rdcu.be/fnqIL 🧵1/6

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Time, space and feature similarity determine attractive and repulsive serial biases in trustworthiness impressions

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Last week I presented my work at #VSS2026 and really enjoyed discussing ideas and learning about new research. Thanks to the organisers, speakers, and everyone who made VSS so inspiring!☀️ @vssmtg.bsky.social

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Excited to be speaking at this event with colleagues from @abdnpsych.bsky.social! I'll be diving into how context shapes who looks trustworthy and how that plays out in The Traitors🏰

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School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen @abdnpsych.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

[1/4] Did you know that the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen is the oldest psychology department in the UK? @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I really liked @dididu.bsky.social’s booth at #ECVP2025 Illusion Night. Tried Celebrity EYE-Q, what a brilliant and fun way to showcase holistic face processing!

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Happy to share that I have completed my PhD! I am so grateful to my fantastic supervisors, inspiring examiners, and the wonderful community at @abdnpsych.bsky.social for making this journey over the past three years of my PhD so enriching✨

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Sanni Ahonen @sanniahonen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Hello #PhD students! We are running a workshop on how to organise scientific conferences. We would love to include your questions in our Q&A sections. Any tips and tricks you would like to hear from those who've been through it all? Read on… 🧵 1/5 #PhDSky #PhDchat

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School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen @abdnpsych.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

🚨 ALERT 🚨 The annual EASTBIO PhD recruitment competition is now open! Exciting projects are available in our School of Psychology. Deadline is January 17th. Find out more at www.findaphd.com/phds/school-... #PhD

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FindAPhD. Search Funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships at University of Aberdeen , School of Psychology.

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Kristen A Baker @k-a-baker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I've created a feed associated with theFace Processing starter pack (go.bsky.app/9A7EJsU). You can post to the feed using any of the following tags: #FaceMatching, #FaceMemory, #FaceLearning, #FaceIdentification, #FacialAttactiveness, #FacialFirstImpressions, #FaceProcessing, #FaceRecognition

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Thanks to co-authors @mauromanassi.bsky.social, Clare Sutherland, Linda Jeffery, Sarah Maisey, to Visual Cognition journal for publishing us, and to the University of Aberdeen! 8/8

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Taken together, our findings confirm that (1) temporal context shapes trustworthiness impressions, by showing that visual adaptation affects trust judgements, and that (2) past emotional expressions influence following impressions of trustworthiness and dominance. 7/8

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Our results support the emotion overgeneralization hypothesis (suggesting that we overgeneralise subtle emotional cues in neutral faces when judging others' traits), and help understanding why we form such impressions, despite little evidence they reflect others’ true traits. 6/8

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

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

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

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

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

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. 3/8

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

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

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Fiammetta Marini @fiammarini.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

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. tinyurl.com/bdh3mcf4 🧵1/8

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