Our results further suggest that evaluation of trustworthiness from facial appearance is to
some extent affected by the personality traits of the perceivers but that this relation depends on
gender. In fact, the overall pattern of results shows that almost all of the significant, although
low, correlations between perceived trustworthiness and personality traits turned to be significant only in the women’s subsample. To the best of our knowledge, no previous study analyzed
the influence of gender in mediating the relationships between personality traits and trustworthiness judgments and future research should systematically investigate such relationships in
order to gain a better understanding of the present findings.