Motivation and prediction-driven processing of social memoranda

N Reggev - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Social semantic memory guides many aspects of behavior. Individuals rely on acquired and
inferred knowledge about personal characteristics and group membership to predict the …

Goals bias face perception.

YF Hu, J Heffner, A Bhandari… - Journal of Experimental …, 2025 - psycnet.apa.org
Faces—the most common and complex stimuli in our daily lives—contain multidimensional
information used to infer social attributes that guide consequential behaviors, such as …

Learning too much from too little: False face stereotypes emerge from a few exemplars and persist via insufficient sampling.

X Bai, S Uddenberg, BP Labbree… - Journal of Personality …, 2025 - psycnet.apa.org
Face stereotypes are prevalent, consequential, yet oftentimes inaccurate. How do false first
impressions arise and persist despite counter-evidence? Building on the overgeneralization …