Research Topics
| Nicholas O RuleSummaryAffiliation: Tufts University Country: USA Publications
| Collaborators |
Detail Information
Publications
Us and them: memory advantages in perceptually ambiguous groupsNicholas O Rule
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:687-92. 2007....
Face value: amygdala response reflects the validity of first impressionsNicholas O Rule
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Neuroimage 54:734-41. 2011..Thus, amygdala response reflected both subjective judgments and objective measures of leadership ability based on first impressions...- 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... - 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... 
Democrats and republicans can be differentiated from their facesNicholas O Rule
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e8733. 2010..Individuals' faces communicate a great deal of information about them. Although some of this information tends to be perceptually obvious (such as race and sex), much of it is perceptually ambiguous, without clear or obvious visual cues...- 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... - Voting behavior is reflected in amygdala response across culturesNicholas O Rule
Psychology Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:349-55. 2010..These data provide insight to the mechanisms that underlie our snap judgments of others when making voting decisions and provide a neural correlate to cross-cultural consensus in social inferences... - 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... - 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 - 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... - 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... - Found in translation: cross-cultural consensus in the accurate categorization of male sexual orientationNicholas O Rule
University of Toronto, Department of Psychology, Toronto, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 37:1499-507. 2011..e., response bias) also varied such that perceivers from cultures less accepting of homosexuality were more likely to categorize targets as straight. Male sexual orientation therefore appears to be legible across cultures... - Perceptions of dominance following glimpses of faces and bodiesNicholas O Rule
Psychology Department, University of Toronto, 100 St George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada
Perception 41:687-706. 2012..These data extend our knowledge of the efficient and accurate perception of social cues from nonverbal behavior... - The neural origins of superficial and individuated judgments about ingroup and outgroup membersJonathan B Freeman
Psychology Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 31:150-9. 2010..The findings reveal the distinct-and race-selective-neural bases of our everyday superficial and individuated judgments of others... - Proprioception and person perception: politicians and professorsMichael L Slepian
Tufts University, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 38:1621-8. 2012..Finally, thinking about Republicans and Democrats led participants to perceive a ball as harder or softer, respectively, suggesting that simulating proprioception might aid social-categorical thinking (Study 4)... - 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... - Sexual orientation perception involves gendered facial cuesJonathan B Freeman
Tufts University, Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 36:1318-31. 2010..Together, the findings demonstrate that perceivers utilize gendered facial cues to glean another's sexual orientation, and this influences the accuracy or error of judgments... - The influence of target and perceiver race in the categorisation of male sexual orientationNicholas O Rule
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada
Perception 40:830-9. 2011..The perception of sexual orientation from faces therefore appears to be robust against variations in target and perceiver race... - Tough and tender: embodied categorization of genderMichael L Slepian
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Psychol Sci 22:26-8. 2011..Two different manipulations of proprioceptive toughness predictably biased the categorization of faces toward "male." These findings suggest that social-category knowledge is at least partially embodied... - On the perception of religious group membership from facesNicholas O Rule
Psychology Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
PLoS ONE 5:e14241. 2010..We tested whether Mormons could be distinguished from non-Mormons and investigated the basis for this effect to gain insight to how subtle perceptual cues can support complex social categorizations... - The cultural neuroscience of person perceptionJonathan B Freeman
Psychology Department, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
Prog Brain Res 178:191-201. 2009..More broadly, we discuss the promise of a cultural neuroscience approach to social perception and some of its epistemological challenges as a nascent interdisciplinary enterprise... - Mating interest improves women's accuracy in judging male sexual orientationNicholas O Rule
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Sci 22:881-6. 2011..The accuracy of judgments of male sexual orientation therefore appears to be influenced by both natural variations in female perceivers' fertility and experimentally manipulated cognitive frames... - A memory advantage for untrustworthy facesNicholas O Rule
Psychology Department, University of Toronto, 100 St George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3G3
Cognition 125:207-18. 2012..Consistent with ecological theories of perception, cues to trustworthiness from facial appearance may thus guide who is remembered and who is forgotten at first impression... - 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... - Culture in social neuroscience: A reviewNicholas O Rule
a Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Soc Neurosci 8:3-10. 2013..These findings attest to the plasticity of the brain and its adaptation to cultural contexts... - Accuracy and consensus in judgments of trustworthiness from faces: behavioral and neural correlatesNicholas O Rule
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 104:409-26. 2013..These data suggest that judgments of trustworthiness may not be accurate but, rather, reflect subjective impressions for which people show high agreement...