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On the universality and cultural specificity of emotion recognition: a meta-analysisHillary Anger Elfenbein
Program in Organizational Behavior, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Psychol Bull 128:203-35. 2002..Attributes of study design appeared not to moderate the size of the in-group advantage...- Laterality of facial expressions of emotion: Universal and culture-specific influencesManas K Mandal
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Behav Neurol 15:23-34. 2004..The right side of face, on the other hand, is less susceptible to cultural display norms and exhibits more universal emotional signals... 
Accurate identification of fear facial expressions predicts prosocial behaviorAbigail A Marsh
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Emotion 7:239-51. 2007..In Study 3, accuracy for recognizing fear proved a better predictor of prosocial behavior than gender, mood, or scores on an empathy scale...- Accuracy of judgments of sexual orientation from thin slices of behaviorN Ambady
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 77:538-47. 1999..In Study 2, judgments based on 10-s dynamic figural outline displays containing primarily gestural information were more accurate than chance... - Stereotype susceptibility in children: effects of identity activation on quantitative performanceN Ambady
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 12:385-90. 2001..These results suggest that the development of stereotype susceptibility is a critical domain for understanding the connection between stereotypes and individual behavior.. - On being sad and mistaken: mood effects on the accuracy of thin-slice judgmentsNalini Ambady
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:947-61. 2002..As expected, accuracy was higher among participants in a sad mood condition who completed the judgment task while simultaneously performing a distracting cognitive load task... - Physical therapists' nonverbal communication predicts geriatric patients' health outcomesNalini Ambady
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Psychol Aging 17:443-52. 2002..In Study 2, elderly subjects perceived distancing behaviors of therapists more negatively than positive behaviors... 
Affective divergence: automatic responses to others' emotions depend on group membershipMax Weisbuch
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:1063-79. 2008..In Experiment 5, felt dominance mediated emotional responses to ingroup and outgroup vocal emotion. These data support a signal-value model in which emotion expressions signal environmental conditions...- Culture, gaze and the neural processing of fear expressionsReginald B Adams
Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:340-8. 2010..These findings reveal a meaningful role of culture in the processing of eye gaze and emotion, and highlight their interactive influences in neural processing... - Not so black and white: memory for ambiguous group membersKristin Pauker
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02155, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:795-810. 2009..Thus, memory for biracial individuals seems to involve a flexible person construal process shaped by motivational factors... - Will a category cue attract you? Motor output reveals dynamic competition across person construalJonathan B Freeman
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 137:673-90. 2008..Such evidence is challenging for discrete stage-based accounts... - Unspoken cultural influence: exposure to and influence of nonverbal biasMax Weisbuch
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:1104-19. 2009..In Study 4, regional differences in exposure to nonverbal bias accounted for substantial variance in regional unhealthy dieting behaviors, even after controlling for several third variables... - Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear facesJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:2167-74. 2008..This finding provides novel and surprising evidence of cultural tuning in an automatic neural response... - The subtle transmission of race bias via televised nonverbal behaviorMax Weisbuch
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Science 326:1711-4. 2009..These findings suggest that hidden patterns of televised nonverbal behavior influence bias among viewers... - Nonverbal "accents": cultural differences in facial expressions of emotionAbigail A Marsh
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 14:373-6. 2003..This evidence suggests that extreme positions regarding the universality of emotional expressions are incomplete... - Is there an in-group advantage in emotion recognition?Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Program in Organizational Behavior, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02163, USA
Psychol Bull 128:243-9. 2002..Overall, where Matsumoto considers subtle cross-cultural differences in emotional expression a methodological artifact in judgment studies, the present authors find a core phenomenon worthy of attention... - Polling the face: prediction and consensus across culturesNicholas O Rule
Department of Psychology, Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 98:1-15. 2010..Therefore, perceivers can reliably infer predictive information from faces but require knowledge about the target's culture to make these predictions accurately... - Accuracy and awareness in the perception and categorization of male sexual orientationNicholas O Rule
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:1019-28. 2008..Differences in the accuracy of judgments based on targets' controllability and perceivers' awareness of cues provides insight into the processes underlying intuitive predictions and intuitive judgments... - Learning (not) to talk about race: when older children underperform in social categorizationEvan P Apfelbaum
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Dev Psychol 44:1513-8. 2008.... - It does not have to be uncomfortable: the role of behavioral scripts in Black-White interracial interactionsDerek R Avery
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
J Appl Psychol 94:1382-93. 2009.... - Priming race in biracial observers affects visual search for Black and White facesJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 17:387-92. 2006..These findings suggest that top-down factors such as one's racial identity can influence mechanisms underlying the visual search for faces of different races... - The effects of fear and anger facial expressions on approach- and avoidance-related behaviorsAbigail A Marsh
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Emotion 5:119-24. 2005..Although the fear expression may signal that a threat is present in the environment, the effect of the expression on conspecifics may be in part to elicit approach... - Contingent negative variation to emotional in- and out-group stimuli differentiates high- and low-prejudiced individualsPearl Chiu
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:1830-9. 2004.... - Predicting workplace outcomes from the ability to eavesdrop on feelingsHillary Anger Elfenbein
Program in Organizational Behavior, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02163, USA
J Appl Psychol 87:963-71. 2002..The authors discuss implications for the complexity of interventions associated with emotional intelligence in workplace settings... - Mental representations of social statusJoan Y Chiao
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cognition 93:B49-57. 2004..Participants were fastest when comparing ranks far in status relative to ranks close in status. These findings reveal that humans have mental representations of social status that share properties with that of number... - When familiarity breeds accuracy: cultural exposure and facial emotion recognitionHillary Anger Elfenbein
Program in Organizational Behavior, Harvard University, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:276-90. 2003..Results suggest that the universal affect system governing emotional expression may be characterized by subtle differences in style across cultures, which become more familiar with greater cultural contact... - Cross-cultural patterns in emotion recognition: highlighting design and analytical techniquesHillary Anger Elfenbein
Program in Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02163, USA
Emotion 2:75-84. 2002..Finally, the authors examined patterns in the errors or confusions that participants make during emotion recognition and documented strong similarity across cultures... - The neural basis of categorical face perception: graded representations of face gender in fusiform and orbitofrontal corticesJonathan B Freeman
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Cereb Cortex 20:1314-22. 2010..The attention-independent graded representations of face gender in fusiform and orbitofrontal cortices reveal how objective face parameters are encoded and transformed into subjective categorically warped perceptions in the human brain... - The face-sensitive N170 encodes social category informationJonathan B Freeman
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
Neuroreport 21:24-8. 2010..These findings show that social category encoding and the extraction of lower-level face information operate in parallel, suggesting that they may be accomplished by a single dynamic process rather than two separate mechanisms... - Places and faces: Geographic environment influences the ingroup memory advantageNicholas O Rule
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 98:343-55. 2010..Environmental context cues therefore influence the ingroup memory advantage for categories that are not intrinsically salient... - Stereotype performance boosts: the impact of self-relevance and the manner of stereotype activationMargaret Shih
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:638-47. 2002..Nontargets, however, showed boosts in performance only when stereotypes were blatantly activated. The role of self-relevance in mediating sensitivity to stimuli is discussed... - Culture shapes a mesolimbic response to signals of dominance and subordination that associates with behaviorJonathan B Freeman
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Neuroimage 47:353-9. 2009..The findings provide a first demonstration that culture can flexibly shape functional activity in the mesolimbic reward system, which in turn may guide behavior... - Personality in perspective: judgmental consistency across orientations of the faceNicholas O Rule
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Perception 38:1688-99. 2009..These findings therefore show that perceptions of full faces lead to relatively similar interferences across both viewing angle and time... - MouseTracker: software for studying real-time mental processing using a computer mouse-tracking methodJonathan B Freeman
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Behav Res Methods 42:226-41. 2010..We validate the software by demonstrating the accuracy and reliability of its trajectory and reaction time data. The latest version of MouseTracker is freely available at http://mousetracker.jbfreeman.net... - Surgeons' tone of voice: a clue to malpractice historyNalini Ambady
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Boston, Mass, USA
Surgery 132:5-9. 2002..Specific types of affect associated with claims can be judged from brief audio clips, suggesting that this method might be useful in training surgeons... - Psychology's role in mathematics and science educationNora S Newcombe
Department of Psychology, Temple University, 1701 North 13th Street, Room 318, Philadelphia, PA 19122 6085, USA
Am Psychol 64:538-50. 2009..They also examine challenges to psychology's playing a central and constructive role and make recommendations for overcoming those challenges... - Effects of gaze on amygdala sensitivity to anger and fear facesReginald B Adams
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, 6207 Moore Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Science 300:1536. 2003 - The face of success: inferences from chief executive officers' appearance predict company profitsNicholas O Rule
Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Psychol Sci 19:109-11. 2008