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 …

Human observers extract perceptual summaries for sets of items after brief visual exposure,
accurately judging the average size of geometric shapes (Ariely, 2001), walking direction of …

People often interact with groups (ie, ensembles) during social interactions. Given that group-
level information is important in navigating social environments, we expect perceptual …

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

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 …

Social perception is among the most important tasks that occur in daily life, and perceivers
readily appreciate the social affordances of others. Here, we demonstrate that sex …

To navigate a busy interpersonal landscape, people direct perceptual resources in a
motivated fashion that maximizes goals and minimizes threats. While adaptive, these …

Trustworthiness is a fundamental dimension underlying trait impressions of individual faces,
and these impressions predict real-world social consequences. Building on ensemble …

In this study, we investigated whether the first impression of a crowd of faces—crowd
perception—is influenced by social background and cognitive processing. Specifically, we …

Recent models suggest that social categories are not perceived independently, but that they
can facilitate or bias each other's perception due to incidentally shared stereotypes. To …