Social interaction research is lacking an experimental paradigm enabling researchers to
make causal inferences in free social interactions. For instance, the expressive signals that …

The success of human cooperation crucially depends on mechanisms enabling individuals
to detect unreliability in their conspecifics. Yet, how such epistemic vigilance is achieved …

Human listeners excel at forming high-level social representations about each other, even
from the briefest of utterances. In particular, pitch is widely recognized as the auditory …

Models are the hallmark of mature scientific inquiry. In psychology, this maturity has been
reached in a pervasive question—what models best represent facial expressions of …

A wealth of theoretical and empirical arguments have suggested that music triggers
emotional responses by resembling the inflections of expressive vocalizations, but have …

Voices elicit rich first impressions of what the person we are hearing might be like. Research
stresses that these impressions from voices are shared across different listeners, such that …

As an information-bearing auditory attribute of sound, pitch plays a crucial role in the
perception of speech and music. Studies examining pitch processing in autism spectrum …

Over the past few years, the field of visual social cognition and face processing has been
dramatically impacted by a series of data-driven studies employing computer-graphics tools …

Humans are experts in recognition tasks such as recognizing the emotion shown in a face. A
central question in psychology is what sensory information humans use to achieve these …

Research in affective computing and cognitive science has shown the importance of
emotional facial and vocal expressions during human-computer and human-human …