Social Perception

The role of emotion in the dyad inversion effect
Previous research has shown that we are better able to visually process two individuals (a dyad) if they are facing each other as opposed to looking away from each other. Previously, this effect has been shown with images of full bodies. We replicate and extend this finding using faces, and show that this perceptual grouping of facing dyads is affected by the emotional expression of the individuals.
Strachan JWA, Sebanz N, Knoblich G
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Incidental learning of trust from eye-gaze: Effects of race and facial trustworthiness
Incidental learning of trust from gaze cues is weaker for other-race than own-race faces, but is just as strong for highly trustworthy and low trustworthy faces.
Strachan JWA, Kirkham AJ, Mansser LR, Over H, Tipper SP
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Investigating the Formation and Consolidation of Incidentally Learned Trust
People can learn to make trust inferences on the basis of eye gaze behaviour. However, this study shows that these learned representations are not strengthened by a period of sleep, and are accessed without participants being explicitly aware of the behaviour that led to these feelings of trustworthiness. This suggests that rather than remembering specific episodes and using those memories to form impressions, we may form social representations of people (as trustworthy or untrustworthy) as a cost-saving device to save from having to remember their actual behaviour.
Strachan JWA, Guttesen AáV, Smith A, Gaskell MG, Tipper SP, Cairney SA
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Investigating the Formation and Consolidation of Incidentally Learned Trust
People can learn to make trust inferences on the basis of eye gaze behaviour. However, this study shows that these learned representations are not strengthened by a period of sleep, and are accessed without participants being explicitly aware of the behaviour that led to these feelings of trustworthiness. This suggests that rather than remembering specific episodes and using those memories to form impressions, we may form social representations of people (as trustworthy or untrustworthy) as a cost-saving device to save from having to remember their actual behaviour.
Strachan JWA, Guttesen AáV, Smith A, Gaskell MG, Tipper SP, Cairney SA
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Examining the durability of incidentally learned trust from gaze cues
Incidental learning of trust from gaze cues can survive interference with task-relevant stimuli for up to one hour.
Strachan JWA, Tipper SP
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Incidental learning of trust. Examining the role of emotion and visuomotor fluency
Incidental trust learning from identity-contingent gaze cues is affected by emotion, does not extend to non-trust-related judgements, and cannot be explained solely by visuomotor fluency.
Strachan JWA, Kirkham AJ, Manssuer LR, Tipper SP
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Responses in the right posterior superior temporal sulcus show a feature-based response to facial expression
The face-selective region of the right posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) plays an important role in analysing facial …
Flack TR, Andrews TJ, Hymers M, Al-Mosaiwi M, Marsden SP, Strachan JWA, Trakulpipat C, Wang L, Wu T, Young AW
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Deriving Social Information from Gaze
How do we make inferences about other people based on where they look?
Deriving Social Information from Gaze