Social Perception

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'Unwilling' versus 'unable': chimpanzees' understanding of human intentional action. 
  • 36-month-olds conceal visual and auditory information from others. 
  • A 12-year prospective study of patterns of social information processing problems and externalizing behaviors. 
  • A Gender Bias in the Attribution of Creativity: Archival and Experimental Evidence for the Perceived Association Between Masculinity and Creative Thinking. 
  • A comparison of aggressive-rejected and nonaggressive-rejected children's interpretations of self-directed and other-directed rejection. 
  • A developmental perspective on peer rejection: mechanisms of stability and change. 
  • A kiss is not a kiss: visually evoked neuromagnetic fields reveal differential sensitivities to brief presentations of kissing couples. 
  • A longitudinal assessment of the associations among response access, attention problems, and aggression during childhood. 
  • A longitudinal examination of mothers' and fathers' social information processing biases and harsh discipline in nine countries. 
  • A meta-analysis of mentalizing impairments in adults with schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder. 
  • A reexamination of the effects of intent and consequence on children's moral judgments. 
  • A social cognitive model of health for HIV-positive adults receiving care in India. 
  • A survey instrument for the assessment of popular conceptions of mental illness. 
  • Abnormal functional connectivity in autism spectrum disorders during face processing. 
  • Abnormal moral reasoning in complete and partial callosotomy patients. 
  • Addiction, Identity, Morality. 
  • Adolescent aggression and social cognition in the context of personality: impulsivity as a moderator of predictions from social information processing. 
  • Adolescent oral sex, peer popularity, and perceptions of best friends' sexual behavior. 
  • Adults' evaluations of a child as a function of sex of adult and sex of child. 
  • African American emerging adults' experiences with racial discrimination and drinking habits: The moderating roles of perceived stress. 
  • Amygdala activation during emotion processing of neutral faces in children with severe mood dysregulation versus ADHD or bipolar disorder. 
  • An assessment of the understanding and motivations of patients with schizophrenia about participating in a clinical trial. 
  • An intervention to improve cancer patients' understanding of early-phase clinical trials. 
  • Anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorders: guided investigation of social cognitive endophenotypes. 
  • Assessing trauma, substance abuse, and mental health in a sample of homeless men. 
  • Association between amygdala response to emotional faces and social anxiety in autism spectrum disorders. 
  • At face value: Psychological outcomes differ for real vs. computer-generated multiracial faces. 
  • Attribution Through the Layperson's Lens: Development and Preliminary Validation of an Inclusive, International Measure of Beliefs About the Causes of Mental Illness. 
  • Autism is characterized by dorsal anterior cingulate hyperactivation during social target detection. 
  • Biased decision-making processes in aggressive boys. 
  • Bifactor and item response theory analyses of interviewer report scales of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. 
  • Body orientation and face orientation: two factors controlling apes' behavior from humans. 
  • Brief report: Parental perceptions of child vulnerability in children with chronic illness. 
  • Brief report: face configuration accuracy and processing speed among adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Brief report: feasibility of social cognition and interaction training for adults with high functioning autism. 
  • Can an agentic Black woman get ahead? The impact of race and interpersonal dominance on perceptions of female leaders. 
  • Changes in perceived weight discrimination among Americans, 1995-1996 through 2004-2006. 
  • Children with autism fail to orient to naturally occurring social stimuli. 
  • Children's Selective Trust in Promises. 
  • Children's perceptions of deviance and disorder. 
  • Children's reasoning with peers and parents about moral dilemmas. 
  • Children's respect for ownership across diverse societies. 
  • Chimpanzees deceive a human competitor by hiding. 
  • Chimpanzees do not take into account what others can hear in a competitive situation. 
  • Chimpanzees know that others make inferences. 
  • Chimpanzees predict that a competitor's preference will match their own. 
  • Clinician perception of the impact of deployed physical therapists as physician extenders in a combat environment. 
  • Compensatory rationalizations and the resolution of everyday undeserved outcomes. 
  • Complementary justice: effects of "poor but happy" and "poor but honest" stereotype exemplars on system justification and implicit activation of the justice motive. 
  • Comprehension of iconic gestures by chimpanzees and human children. 
  • Confusing one instrumental other for another: goal effects on social categorization. 
  • Consistent Belief in a Good True Self in Misanthropes and Three Interdependent Cultures. 
  • Cross-sectional association between perceived discrimination and hypertension in African-American men and women: the Pitt County Study. 
  • DSM-5 Trichotillomania: Perception of Adults With Trichotillomania After Psychosocial Treatment. 
  • Deconfounding the effects of dominance and social acceptance on self-esteem. 
  • Deconstructing bias in social preferences reveals groupy and not-groupy behavior. 
  • Delineating the maladaptive pathways of child maltreatment: a mediated moderation analysis of the roles of self-perception and social support. 
  • Developmental cascades of peer rejection, social information processing biases, and aggression during middle childhood. 
  • Developmental changes in infants' categorization of anger and disgust facial expressions. 
  • Developmental trajectories of cortical-subcortical interactions underlying the evaluation of trust in adolescence. 
  • Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Distinct value signals in anterior and posterior ventromedial prefrontal cortex. 
  • Distinguishing intentional from accidental actions in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Do negative views of aging influence memory and auditory performance through self-perceived abilities? 
  • Does response evaluation and decision (RED) mediate the relation between hostile attributional style and antisocial behavior in adolescence? 
  • Domain specificity in relationship history, social-information processing, and violent behavior in early adulthood. 
  • Domestic dogs conceal auditory but not visual information from others. 
  • Early adolescents' social standing in peer groups: behavioral correlates of stability and change. 
  • Early social attention impairments in autism: social orienting, joint attention, and attention to distress. 
  • Eating when there is not enough to eat: eating behaviors and perceptions of food among food-insecure youths. 
  • Effect of anticipated performance on the attributions of causality to self and others. 
  • Effect of children’s perceived rejection on physical aggression 
  • Evolutionary perspectives on the role of oxytocin in human social behavior, social cognition and psychopathology. 
  • Examination of a conceptual model of child neglect. 
  • Exploratory analysis of social cognition and neurocognition in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis. 
  • Exploring associations between physical activity and perceived and objective measures of the built environment. 
  • Exposure to Biracial Faces Reduces Colorblindness. 
  • Feared consequences of panic attacks in panic disorder: a qualitative and quantitative analysis. 
  • Fourteen-month-olds know what others experience only in joint engagement. 
  • Gender, race/ethnicity, and social class in research reports on stigma in HIV-positive women. 
  • Genetic influences on childhood competencies: a twin study. 
  • Giving Is Nicer than Taking: Preschoolers Reciprocate Based on the Social Intentions of the Distributor. 
  • Good test--retest reliability for standard and advanced false-belief tasks across a wide range of abilities. 
  • High risk, high reward: Daily perceptions of social challenge and performance in social anxiety disorder. 
  • Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context. 
  • Hostile attributional biases among aggressive boys are exacerbated under conditions of threats to the self. 
  • How 14- and 18-month-olds know what others have experienced. 
  • How do I judge my outcome when I do not know the outcome of others? The psychology of the fair process effect. 
  • How goal instrumentality shapes relationship evaluations. 
  • I am too just like you: nonconscious mimicry as an automatic behavioral response to social exclusion. 
  • Impact of perceived consensus on stereotypes about obese people: a new approach for reducing bias. 
  • Implicit associations as the seeds of intergroup bias: how easily do they take root? 
  • Implicit moral evaluations: A multinomial modeling approach. 
  • Impression formation: the role of expressive behavior. 
  • In good company: managing interpersonal resources that support self-regulation. 
  • Indifferent reactions: regulatory responses to the apathy of others. 
  • Individual-level factors attributable to urban-rural disparity in mortality among older adults in China. 
  • Interactive Contributions of Attribution Biases and Emotional Intensity to Child-Friend Interaction Quality During Preadolescence. 
  • Internal representational models of peers: implications for the development of problematic behavior. 
  • Interpersonal functioning in borderline personality disorder: a systematic review of behavioral and laboratory-based assessments. 
  • Language and interpersonal cognition: causal effects of variations in pronoun usage on perceptions of closeness. 
  • Late Positive Potential ERP Responses to Social and Nonsocial Stimuli in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Lean in messages increase attributions of women's responsibility for gender inequality. 
  • Learning by imitation: a hierarchical approach. 
  • Linking automatic evaluation to mood and information processing style: consequences for experienced affect, impression formation, and stereotyping. 
  • Living with HIV infection: perceptions of patients with access to care at a non-governmental organization in Chennai, India. 
  • Loneliness and peer relations in young children 
  • Looking past the model species: diversity in gaze-following skills across primates. 
  • Manipulating perceptions of colorectal cancer threat: implications for screening intentions and behaviors. 
  • Measuring social communication behaviors as a treatment endpoint in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Mechanisms of patient health behavior change in a randomized controlled trial of a spouse-assisted intervention. 
  • Misestimation of peer tobacco use: understanding disparities in tobacco use. 
  • Modernization and status of the aged: international correlations. 
  • Modification of Hostile Interpretation Bias in Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Modulating emotional responses: effects of a neocortical network on the limbic system. 
  • Monoracial and biracial children: effects of racial identity saliency on social learning and social preferences. 
  • Moral appraisals affect doing/allowing judgments. 
  • Motivational and emotional aspects of the self. 
  • Multidimensional latent-construct analysis of children's social information processing patterns: correlations with aggressive behavior problems. 
  • Neural activity associated with self, other, and object-based counterfactual thinking. 
  • Neural bases of different cognitive strategies for facial affect processing in schizophrenia. 
  • Neural correlates of facial affect processing in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Neural systems for guilt from actions affecting self versus others. 
  • Neurocognitive and electrophysiological evidence of altered face processing in parents of children with autism: implications for a model of abnormal development of social brain circuitry in autism. 
  • Neuropsychological functioning as a moderator of the relationship between psychosocial functioning and the subjective experience of self and life in schizophrenia. 
  • Observable Social Cognition--A Rating Scale: an interview-based assessment for schizophrenia. 
  • One-year-old infants follow others' voice direction. 
  • Optimism, social support, and adjustment in African American women with breast cancer. 
  • Origins of individual differences in theory of mind: from nature to nurture? 
  • Parents' monitoring-relevant knowledge and adolescents' delinquent behavior: evidence of correlated developmental changes and reciprocal influences. 
  • Parents' perceptions of quality health care. 
  • Partners' ratings of combat veterans' anger. 
  • Patient and clinician satisfaction with a store-and-forward teledermatology consult system. 
  • Peer rejection and social information-processing factors in the development of aggressive behavior problems in children. 
  • Perceived acceptability of home-based couples voluntary HIV counseling and testing in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Perceived and actual stroke risk among men with hypertension. 
  • Perceived comfort level of medical students and residents in handling clinical ethics issues. 
  • Perceived discrimination and health: a meta-analytic review. 
  • Perceived discrimination and hypertension among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study 
  • Perceived distributions of the characteristics of in-group and out-group members: empirical evidence and a computer simulation. 
  • Perceived family stress as a predictor of health-related outcomes. 
  • Perceived neighborhood safety and depressive symptoms among African American crack users. 
  • Perceived racial/ethnic bias in healthcare in Durham County, North Carolina: a comparison of community and national samples. 
  • Perceived racial/ethnic harassment and tobacco use among African American young adults. 
  • Perceived racism and cardiovascular reactivity and recovery to personally relevant stress. 
  • Perceived responsiveness during an initial social interaction with a stranger predicts a positive memory bias one week later. 
  • Perceived risk of developing smoking-related disease among persons living with HIV. 
  • Perceived social status and mental health among young adolescents: Evidence from census data to cellphones. 
  • Perceiving social inequity: when subordinate-group positioning on one dimension of social hierarchy enhances privilege recognition on another. 
  • Perception of affect in biological motion cues in anorexia nervosa. 
  • Perception of friends' use of alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana among urban schoolchildren: a longitudinal analysis. 
  • Perception of unmet basic needs as a predictor of depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Perception of unmet basic needs as a predictor of mortality among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Perceptions of African-American culture and implications for clinical trial design. 
  • Perceptions of aging across 26 cultures and their culture-level associates. 
  • Perceptions of neighborhood safety and asthma among children and adolescents in Los Angeles: a multilevel analysis. 
  • Perceptions of stress, worry, and support in Black and White mothers of hospitalized, medically fragile infants. 
  • Perceptions of weight discrimination: prevalence and comparison to race and gender discrimination in America. 
  • Perigenual anterior cingulate morphology covaries with perceived social standing. 
  • Personality and persona: personality processes in self-presentation. 
  • Pointing out new news, old news, and absent referents at 12 months of age. 
  • Positive Stereotypes Are Pervasive and Powerful. 
  • Potential neural embedding of parental social standing. 
  • Predictors of hopelessness among clinically depressed youth. 
  • Preference-based utility scores for adverse events associated with the treatment of gynecologic cancers. 
  • Preferential amygdala reactivity to the negative assessment of neutral faces. 
  • Preschoolers affect others' reputations through prosocial gossip. 
  • Primate cognition. 
  • Providing support to IPV victims in the emergency department: vignette-based interviews with IPV survivors and emergency department nurses. 
  • Psychosocial stress and 13-year BMI change among blacks: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Putting the brakes on prejudice: on the development and operation of cues for control. 
  • Putting together phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspectives on empathy. 
  • Reasons probably won't change your mind: The role of reasons in revising moral decisions. 
  • Regulatory accessibility and social influences on state self-control. 
  • Restricted emigration, system inescapability, and defense of the status quo: system-justifying consequences of restricted exit opportunities. 
  • Returning to roots: on social information processing and moral development. 
  • Reward circuitry function in autism during face anticipation and outcomes. 
  • Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries. 
  • Salivary testosterone and a trinucleotide (CAG) length polymorphism in the androgen receptor gene predict amygdala reactivity in men. 
  • Schizophrenia, narrative, and neurocognition: The utility of life-stories in understanding social problem-solving skills. 
  • Self-monitoring without awareness: using mimicry as a nonconscious affiliation strategy. 
  • Self-presentation in everyday interactions: effects of target familiarity and gender composition. 
  • Self-presentational persona: simultaneous management of multiple impressions. 
  • Self-regulation, rumination, and vulnerability to depression in adolescent girls. 
  • Social anxiety and self-presentation: a conceptualization and model. 
  • Social cognition and children's aggressive behavior. 
  • Social cognitive biases and deficits in aggressive boys. 
  • Social cognitive training in adolescents with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: feasibility and preliminary effects of the intervention. 
  • Social impairments in alternating hemiplegia of childhood. 
  • Social information processing and cardiac predictors of adolescent antisocial behavior. 
  • Social information processing in child psychiatric populations. 
  • Social information-processing mechanisms in reactive and proactive aggression. 
  • Social stimuli interfere with cognitive control in autism. 
  • Social-cognitive mechanisms in the development of conduct disorder and depression. 
  • Social-cognitive processes of severely violent, moderately aggressive, and nonaggressive boys. 
  • Social-cognitive processing and depressive symptoms in children: a comparison of measures. 
  • Social-information-processing factors in reactive and proactive aggression in children's peer groups. 
  • Social-information-processing patterns mediate the impact of preventive intervention on adolescent antisocial behavior. 
  • Speed and accuracy of facial expression classification in avoidant personality disorder: a preliminary study. 
  • Spouse and Patient Beliefs and Perceptions About Chronic Pain: Effects on Couple Interactions and Patient Pain Behavior. 
  • State Board members' perceptions of impaired nurses. 
  • Stereotypes of age differences in personality traits: universal and accurate? 
  • Sticking with the nice guy: trait warmth information impairs learning and modulates person perception brain network activity. 
  • Students' knowledge and perceptions of critical care nursing. 
  • The amygdala response to emotional stimuli: a comparison of faces and scenes. 
  • The assessment of intention-cue detection skills in children: implications for developmental psychopathology. 
  • The chameleon effect: the perception-behavior link and social interaction. 
  • The concept of ego threat in social and personality psychology: is ego threat a viable scientific construct? 
  • The concept of voluntary consent. 
  • The distinction between beliefs legitimizing aggression and deviant processing of social cues: testing measurement validity and the hypothesis that biased processing mediates the effects of beliefs on aggression. Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • The dyadic nature of social information processing in boys' reactive and proactive aggression. 
  • The effect of context processing on different aspects of social cognition in schizophrenia. 
  • The effects of a multiyear universal social-emotional learning program: The role of student and school characteristics. 
  • The effects of face expertise training on the behavioral performance and brain activity of adults with high functioning autism spectrum disorders. 
  • The effects of intranasal oxytocin on reward circuitry responses in children with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • The effects of the fast track program on serious problem outcomes at the end of elementary school. 
  • The emergence of social cognition in three young chimpanzees. 
  • The impact of first-grade "friendship group" experiences on child social outcomes in the fast track program. 
  • The impact of perceived racism: psychological symptoms among African American boys. 
  • The influence of a defendant's body weight on perceptions of guilt. 
  • The perceived racism scale: a multidimensional assessment of the experience of white racism among African Americans. 
  • The pot calling the kettle black: distancing response to ethical dissonance. 
  • The prediction of adolescent homicide: episodic dyscontrol and dehumanization. 
  • The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: the appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies. 
  • The reasonable woman standard: a meta-analytic review of gender differences in perceptions of sexual harassment. 
  • The relation between young children's physiological arousal and their motivation to help others. 
  • The relationship between hostility and beta-adrenergic receptor physiology in health young males. 
  • The role of interpersonal perceptions in the prime-to-behavior pathway. 
  • The structure of individual differences in the cognitive abilities of children and chimpanzees. 
  • There's no team in I: How observers perceive individual creativity in a team setting. 
  • Three- and 5-year-old children's understanding of how to dissolve a joint commitment. 
  • Toddlers' understanding of peers' emotions. 
  • Tuberculosis knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs among North Carolinians at increased risk of infection. 
  • Two Distinct Moral Mechanisms for Ascribing and Denying Intentionality. 
  • Two-year-olds grasp the intentional structure of pretense acts. 
  • Understanding the personal and clinical utility of psychiatric advance directives: a qualitative perspective. 
  • Validation of the Duke Religion Index: DUREL (Portuguese version). 
  • Variation in caregiver perceptions of teamwork climate in labor and delivery units. 
  • What Is a Group? Young Children's Perceptions of Different Types of Groups and Group Entitativity. 
  • When agendas collide: human welfare and biological conservation. 
  • When similarity breeds content: need for closure and the allure of homogeneous and self-resembling groups. 
  • Why Seemingly Trivial Events Sometimes Evoke Strong Emotional Reactions: The Role of Social Exchange Rule Violations. 
  • Why do nominal characteristics acquire status value? A minimal explanation for status construction. 
  • Why do the chronically lonely stay lonely? Chronically lonely children and adolescents attributions and emotions in situations of social inclusion and exclusion. 
  • Why some groups just feel better: the regulatory fit of group power. 
  • Women's perceived and partners' reported support for smoking cessation during pregnancy. 
  • You give me the chills: embodied reactions to inappropriate amounts of behavioral mimicry. 
  • Young children understand multiple pretend identities in their object play. 
  • Young children use pedagogical cues to modulate the strength of normative inferences. 
  • Young children's understanding of joint commitments. 
  • Young children's understanding of violations of property rights. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Huettel, Scott, Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke Science & Society
  • Olsen, Maren Karine, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Chauncey Stillman Distinguished Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke Science & Society