Introduction
Adams, Ambady, Nakayama, and Shimojo
Chapter 1 An Ecological Theory of Face Perception
Zebrowitz, Bronstad, and Montepare
Chapter 2 The Cognitive Capitalist: The Social Benefits of
Perceptual Economy
Martin and Macrae
Chapter 3 Faces, bodies, social vision as agent vision and social
consciousness
de Gelder and Tamietto
Chapter 4 Perceiving Through Culture: The Socialized Attention
Hypothesis
Park and Kitayama
Chapter 5 Compound Social Cues in Human Face Processing
Adams, Franklin, Nelson, and Stevenson
Chapter 6 Gaze Perception and Visually Mediated Attention
Langton
Chapter 7 Aging Eyes Facing an Emotional World: The Role of
Motivated Gaze
Isaacowitz and Murphy
Chapter 8 Gaze and preference - orienting behavior as a somatic
precursor of preference decision
Shimojo, Simion, and Changizi
Chapter 9 Facial Attractiveness
Little and Perrett
Chapter 10 Why Cosmetics Work
Russell
Chapter 11 Context-specific Responses to Self-Resembling Faces
DeBruine and Jones
Chapter 12 In the eyes of the beholder: How empathy influences
emotion perception
Chakrabarti and Baron-Cohen
Chapter 13 Thin-Slice Vision
Weisbuch and Ambady
Chapter 14 Seeing human movement as inherently social
Shiffrar, Kaiser, and Chouchourelou
Chapter 15 Social Constraints on the Visual Perception of
Biological Motion
Johnson, Pollick, and McKay
Chapter 16 Social Color Vision
Changizi and Shimojo
Chapter 17 Mental Control and Visual Illusions: Errors of Action
and Construal in Race-based Weapon Misidentification
Stokes and Payne
Chapter 18 Afrocentric Facial Features and Stereotyping
Blair and Judd
Chapter 19 The Role of Racial Markers in Race Perception and Racial
Categorization
O.H. MacLin & M.K. MacLin
Chapter 20 Aftereffects reveal that adaptive face-coding mechanisms
are selective for race and sex
Rhodes and Jaquet
Chapter 21 Are people special? A brain's eye view
Atkinson, Heberlein, and Adolphs
Chapter 22 Side Bias: Cerebral Hemispheric Asymmetry In Social
Cognition And Emotion Perception
Savage, Borod, and Ramig
Chapter 23 Biological Motion and Multisensory Integration: The Role
of the Superior Temporal Sulcus
Beauchamp
Chapter 24 Specialized Brain for the Social Vision: Perspectives
from Typical and Atypical Development
Farroni and Senju
Dr. Reginald B. Adams, Jr., Assistant Professor at The Pennsylvania
State University, received his Ph.D. in experimental social
psychology from Dartmouth College. Before coming to Penn State, he
was awarded a National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the
National Institute of Mental Health to train as a postdoctoral
fellow at Harvard and Tufts Universities. His current research
focuses on how multiply perceived nonverbal messages (e.g.,
emotion,
gender, race, and age) combine and interact to form the unified
social representations that guide our impressions of and responses
to others.
Dr. Nalini Ambady, Professor and Neubauer Faculty Fellow at Tufts
University, received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard
University and taught at Holy Cross College and Harvard University,
where she was the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the
Social Science, before moving to Tufts. She has received several
awards for her research including the Presidential Early Career
Award for Scientists and Engineers and the AAAS Behavioral Science
Research Prize. Her
research interests focus on the accuracy of social, emotional, and
perceptual judgments, how personal and social identities affect
cognition and performance, nonverbal and cross-cultural
communication.
Dr. Ken Nakayama, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard
University, received his Ph.D. in physiological psychology from
UCLA. After a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley and two years
teaching in the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of
Newfoundland, he spent much of his career at the Smith Kettlewell
Eye Institute in San Francisco before moving to Harvard in 1990. He
has been interested in almost all aspects of vision, from the
processing of image
features to social perception.
Dr. Shinsuke Shimojo, Professor in Biology, and Computation and
Neural Systems at California Institute of Technology, received his
Ph.D. in experimental psychology from MIT. After a postdoctoral
fellowship at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Institute in Sa Francisco,
he moved to the University of Tokyo as an associate professor (in
1989), and then took his current position at Caltech. His work has
covered a wide range of topics, such as vision, visual development,
sensory-motor
coordination, crossmodal integration, emotion and implicit aspects
of decision making.
"Social psychology has always been a vibrant area addressing
questions of everyday importance: prejudice, friendship, love, and
hate. The vitality of the field has now recruited vision scientists
and their methods for novel and insightful interactions between
vision science and social psychology. Across these chapters we see
numerous examples of unexpected interactions: rapid influences of
very low-level visual properties (for example, facial coloring,
Chapters
10 and16) on our social judgments and direct modification of
perception by social variables (for example, biological motion,
Chapters 14 and 15). These are exciting new directions in both
social
psychology and vision sciences, and this book offers the first road
map of this new overlapping area, much of it focused on face
perception. I recommend it highly for upper division undergraduate
courses, graduate seminars, and as a reference resource for
specialists." --Patrick Cavanagh, Université Paris Descartes
"An exciting and important book. It does what only the best
anthologies can do: disparate streams of ongoing investigation are
placed in a new context that allows a whole host of new research
problems to come into focus. I recommend this book to cognitive
scientists of all stripes (whether neuroscientists, vision
researchers, social psychologists, or philosophers). I wouldn't be
surprised if we later look back on the publication of The Science
of Social Vision
as a landmark in the history of cognitive science." --Alva Noë,
University of California, Berkeley
"Readers of this book will be witnessing the arrival of a new
interdisciplinary field of scientific inquiry: the science of
social vision. In his brilliant introductory chapter, Ken Nakayama
defines that field, traces its historical roots, and places in into
an evolutionary context. It is hard to imagine a biological or
behavioral scientist who would not profit from a careful reading of
this book." --Robert Rosenthal, University of California, Riverside
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