Crowds of emotional faces are ubiquitous, so much so that the visual system utilizes a
specialized mechanism known as ensemble coding to see them. In addition to being …

People can accurately assess the “mood of a crowd” by rapidly extracting the average
intensity of all the individual expressions, when the crowd consists of a set of faces …

Although the perception of emotion in individuals is an important social skill, very little is
known about how emotion is determined from a crowd of individuals. We investigated the …

The visual system automatically represents summary information from crowds of faces, such
as the average expression. This is a useful heuristic insofar as it provides critical information …

Many species, including humans, display group behavior. Thus, perceiving crowds may be
important for social interaction and survival. Here, we provide the first evidence that humans …

In many social situations, we make a snap judgment about crowds of people relying on their
overall mood (termed “crowd emotion”). Although reading crowd emotion is critical for …

We frequently encounter groups of similar objects in our visual environment: a bed of
flowers, a basket of oranges, a crowd of people. How does the visual system process such …

Little is known about the spread of emotions beyond dyads. Yet, it is of importance for
explaining the emergence of crowd behaviors. Here, we experimentally addressed whether …

When analyzing situations in which multiple people are experiencing emotions together—
whether the emotions are positive or negative and whether the situations are online or …

Face perception is an important ability in social interaction. Holistic processing of a face
enables us to understand facial attributes easily despite similarity of faces. Ensemble coding …