The other-race effect (ORE), or the finding that same-race faces are better recognized than
other-race faces, is one of the best replicated phenomena in face recognition. The current …

Although humans possess well-developed face processing expertise, face processing is
nevertheless subject to a variety of biases. Perhaps the best known of these biases is the …

The primary aim of this chapter is to provide a framework to understand and synthesize the
processes of person construal—early perceptions that lead to initial ingroup/outgroup …

Socio-indexical cues and paralinguistic information are often beneficial to speech
processing as this information assists listeners in parsing the speech stream. Associations …

Faces are inherently social, but the extent to which social group information affects early
face processing remains unknown. To address this issue, we examined cortical activity …

Evidence indicates that superior memory for own-group versus other-group faces (termed
own-group bias) occurs because of social categorization: People are more likely to encode …

Interpersonal entrainment has been shown to have a wide variety of social consequences
which span far beyond those that could be considered purely pro-social. This work reviews …

The ability of the human face to communicate emotional states via facial expressions is well
known, and past research has established the importance and universality of emotional …

Human faces, and more specifically the eyes, play a crucial role in social and nonverbal
communication because they signal valuable information about others. It is therefore …

The current research tests the hypothesis that face processing is attuned to high-status
faces. Across three experiments, faces of high-status targets were better recognized than …