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SUBMITTER: Castle E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3529090 | biostudies-other | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Castle Elizabeth E Eisenberger Naomi I NI Seeman Teresa E TE Moons Wesley G WG Boggero Ian A IA Grinblatt Mark S MS Taylor Shelley E SE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20121203 51
Older adults are disproportionately vulnerable to fraud, and federal agencies have speculated that excessive trust explains their greater vulnerability. Two studies, one behavioral and one using neuroimaging methodology, identified age differences in trust and their neural underpinnings. Older and younger adults rated faces high in trust cues similarly, but older adults perceived faces with cues to untrustworthiness to be significantly more trustworthy and approachable than younger adults. This ...[more]