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

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 …

Person perception is the study of the cognitive processes involved in categorizing people
and their behavior, forming inferences about their qualities and the causes for their action …

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

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 …

This study bridges a gap between traditional group perception research and person
perception research by relating group members' perceptions of others to their perceptions of …

This volume highlights state-of-the-art research on motivated social perception by the
leaders in the field. Recently a number of researchers developed influential accounts of how …

Recent developments in the study of group perception have been guided by four concepts:
homogeneity, essentialism, agency, and entitativity. Research on these topics has …

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 …

This article analyzes the similarities and differences in forming impressions of individuals
and in developing conceptions of groups. In both cases, the perceiver develops a mental …