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Facial resemblance enhances trust Lisa M DeBruine  1 Affiliations Expand Affiliation 1 Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1. debruilm@mcmaster.ca PMID: 12079651 PMCID: PMC1691034 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2034 Free PMC article Item in Clipboard Facial resemblance enhances trust Lisa M DeBruine. Proc Biol Sci. 2002. Free PMC article Show details Display options Display options Format Abstract PubMed PMID Proc Biol Sci Actions Search in PubMed Search in NLM Catalog Add to Search . 2002 Jul 7;269(1498):1307-12. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2034. Author Lisa M DeBruine  1 Affiliation 1 Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1. debruilm@mcmaster.ca PMID: 12079651 PMCID: PMC1691034 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2034 Item in Clipboard Full-text links CiteDisplay options Display options Format Abstract PubMed PMID Abstract Organisms are expected to be sensitive to cues of genetic relatedness when making decisions about social behaviour. Relatedness can be assessed in several ways, one of which is phenotype matching: the assessment of similarity between others' traits and either one's own traits or those of known relatives. One candidate cue of relatedness in humans is facial resemblance. Here, I report the effects of an experimental manipulation of facial resemblance in a two-person sequential trust game. Subjects were shown faces of ostensible playing partners manipulated to resemble either themselves or an unknown person. 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