Abstract
25 males and 25 females (Study I) and 37 males (Study II) Q-sorted 60 facial photographs according to perceived openness (PO) and perceived trustworthiness (PT). In Study II subjects also responded to Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory. Trustworthiness was, but openness was not, perceived as stereotypically as were other traits in previous studies. Both perceived openness and trustworthiness were less highly correlated with other positively valued traits than these traits had been found to correlate with one another; but the latter was more highly correlated negatively with perceived hostility than this trait had been found to correlate with other desirable traits. Individual fs between openness and trustworthiness were found to be unrelated to scores on the Personal Orientation Inventory.
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