Groups, teams, and collectives—people—are incredibly important to human behavior.
People live in families, work in teams, and celebrate and mourn together in groups. Despite …

An enormous amount of research on person perception exists. This literature documents
how people form impressions of one another and how these impressions influence …

The primary objective of the current chapter is to provide an overview of how contemporary
research in social psychology, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience can inform …

The visual perception of individuals has received considerable attention (visual person
perception), but little social psychological work has examined the processes underlying the …

Ziva Kunda provides a comprehensive and accessible survey of research and theory about
social cognition at a level appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as …

Everyday, we visually perceive people not only in isolation but also in groups. Yet, visual
person perception research typically focuses on inferences made about isolated individuals …

Social categorization research has historically focused either on understanding how
observers utilize visual cues in the face and body to make judgments of others or on …

People make judgments about others all the time, often without realizing they are doing so.
How are interpersonal impressions formed? How accurate are our perceptions of other …

Research is increasingly challenging the claim that distinct sources of social information—
such as sex, race, and emotion—are processed in discrete fashion. Instead, there appear to …

What are other people like? How do we decide if someone is friendly, honest or clever?
What assumptions do we develop about them and what explanations do we give for their …