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Trustworthiness Essay

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Have you ever wondered what people think of you? If you are a heart beating, breathing human begin you have. What happens if I tell you that there is a way for you to know the perseption that people have of you. The first question you might ask is are you psycic and the answer in no, but I do have some tricks up my sleve. The secret to the iminiet profiling that people do to you is your eyes. This is the freaky part, it is proven that 85% of people that are asked after first inpresions dont remember the eye color, but when they are asked to dispribe the person some of the personality treats correlated with thier eye color. And what if I tell you that people with brown eyes are not only more trust worthy but also are seen as a more approchable. …show more content…

Based on their previous evidence that linked eye color to psychological and social factors such as shyness and extroversion, they ran two rounds of testing. In the first one in which they presented photographs of subjects retaining their natural eye color and another in which the images were retouched so brown eyes would become blue and the other way around. Everytime the participants would be asked to rate how much they would trusted the men and women on a scale from one to ten, with one being the most trustworthy. The result of the first round of expiriments were that people with brown eyes were determined to me more trust worthy. This was in the case of both sexes. The scientific reasoning behind this is that the people with brown eyes are seen as more trustworthy because of the biosocial adaptation that was engraved in our DNA millions of years ago. Yet the people with blue eyes should not feel bad upon losing the trustworthy battle they are winning in other aspects of first

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