BECE. Newsletter 

Vol.7, No.1, 2021 933 

 

 

 

 

How Do Personal Trait Credibility and Facial Credi-

bility Affect Children’s Peers Trust? 

By Li, Q.G., Zhang, W.Y., Sun, J.Y., & Ma, F.L. 

Correspondence to: Li, Q.G., Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal Uni-

versity, China. Email: liqinggong@zjnu.cn 

ACIAL Credibility means the confidence level of the trustee is related to 

facial features, while Personal Trait Credibility represents that concerns 

personality traits. Li’s team surveys 297 students aged 8 to 12 to explore the 

prediction of trustee’s Personal Trait Credibility and Facial Credibility on 

peers trust and the age difference. The measurement process is divided into 

three parts. First, each participant evaluates the confidence level of their 

classmates to obtain peers trust scores. Second, through the introduction, the 

test relates high level to the traits of being honest, reliable, and considerate, 

so as to obtain the number of high level nominations for each student, and 

obtain the Personal Trait Credibility scores. Third, 80 primary students aged 

from 8 to 12 who did not participate in the test are selected to evaluate the 

credibility of participants from each face photo to get a Facial Credibility 

score. The results show that: 

Children are inclined to trust peers with high Facial Credibility score 

and high Personal Trait Credibility score. 

Compared with low Personal Trait Credibility, when trustees have 

higher score, Facial Credibility has a greater predictive effect on peers trust. 

Compared with low Personal Trait Credibility, when trustees have 

higher score, trait credibility has a greater predictive effect on peer trust. 

The predictive effect of Personal Trait Credibility increases with the 

growth of age, whereas the predictive effect of Facial Credibility remains the 

same. 

 

Source: Psychological Development and Education, 2020; 36(1):38-44. 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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