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You Are What I Think: New Evidence of 'Top Down' Effects on Social Perception
There is a naïve belief that our perceptions provide direct, unbiased access to reality. Here, four presenters share emerging research demonstrating the opposite: that various aspects of our perceptions of social others are critically shaped by our own thoughts, feelings, and the immediate social context.
Chairs & Discussants
- Nicole BetzChair
Yale University
Presentations
- You Smile When I’m Happy: Affective Realism in Social PerceptionJolie Wormwood, Erika Siegel, Quigley Karen, Lisa Barrett
- Virtual Perspective Taking: Does Avatar Presence Facilitate Perceptual Judgments from Different Perspectives?Jeanine Stefanucci, Morgan Saxon, Brandon Thomas, Sarah Creem-Regehr
- Top-Down Effects of Essentialist Beliefs on Facial Recognition MemoryJessica Leffers, Nicole Betz, Jolie Wormwood, John Coley
- Race and Sex As Moderating Factors in the Differential Attributions of Secondary Emotions: The Case for an Intersectional Approach in Infrahumanization StudiesCarlos Garrido, Reginald Adams
