It's important to distinguish between "trustworthiness can be determined from headshots" which is essentially phrenology and "perceived trustworthiness can be d

It's important to distinguish between "trustworthiness can be determined from headshots" which is essentially phrenology and "perceived trustworthiness can be determined from headshots" which is a very, very different scientific question. People do perceive others as more or less trustworthy, smart, reliable, etc, etc based on simply how you look, even in cases where there is no correlation - while they may be mistaken, that's how people feel and act, this is a reasonably established fact. Like, we might be sad that in 2022 the general public believes that trustworthiness can be judged by nothing more than a headshot, but that - just as all other kinds of preconceptions and prejudices - is an actual, real attribute of society and people and deserves to be properly scientifically studied and published, without any allusions that the topic is taboo or pseudoscience just because we don't like the factual observations.