Autistic individuals tend to perceive and process the world around them differently to neurotypicals. For example, autistics may have a lower tendency to attribute mental states to others, read their ...

Some people seem to sense tension before anyone says a word or notice subtle shifts in someone’s mood that everyone else ...

A recent study conducted at the University of Turku in Finland shows that different people have similar brain activity when perceiving social situations. Researchers discovered an extensive neural ...

Neuroscientists have devised a way to alter our social perception and monitor specific types of hallucinations, both in healthy individuals and patients with Parkinson's disease. The test, which is ...

Social class is a powerful hierarchy that determines many privileges and disadvantages in society. Research shows that people are quick to form impressions of other people's social class standing, ...

We proposed a theoretical model of the ingroup as a social resource (MISR), which attempts to explain the self-serving functions of group membership (Correll & Park, 2005). This model suggests that ...

Led by Debbie Ma, we have developed a database of faces including images of more than 600 individuals, female and male, from a variety of racial and ethnic groups (Asian, Black, Latino, White). For ...

A recent study shows that different people have similar brain activity when perceiving social situations. Researchers discovered an extensive neural network in the human brain that effectively ...