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Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
