Academic Abstract Clothing, hairstyle, makeup, and accessories influence first impressions.
However, target dress is notably absent from current theories and models of person …

Biological and artificial information processing systems form representations that they can
use to categorize, reason, plan, navigate, and make decisions. How can we measure the …

Although the use of face masks was widespread during the COVID‐19 pandemic, their
impact on social perceptions is unclear. Notably, research that has investigated the …

We present a theory of belief dynamics that explains the interplay between internal beliefs in
people's minds and beliefs of others in their external social environments. The networks of …

Despite substantial literature surrounding how people process and perceive faces, there is
very little research investigating how people evaluate their own faces. We examined how …

In five experiments, we investigated how Black participants perceive Duchenne and non-
Duchenne smiles on Black and White targets. Results consistently demonstrated that when …

Social vision research, which examines, in part, how humans visually perceive social stimuli,
is well-positioned to improve understandings of social inequality. However, social vision …

Social class is a powerful hierarchy that determines many privileges and disadvantages.
People form impressions of others' social class (like other important social attributes) from …

From a glimpse of a face, people form trait impressions that operate as facial stereotypes,
which are largely inaccurate yet nevertheless drive social behavior. Behavioral studies have …

Theories of belief system structure and dynamics assume that belief systems are a person-
level construct. However, measures of belief system structure do not measure the structure …