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Hong, Y., Chua, K-W., & Freeman, J.B. (2023). Reducing the reliance on facial stereotypes in consequential social judgments: Intervention success with White male faces. Psychological Science.
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Chwe, J.A. & Freeman, J.B. (in press). Trustworthiness of crowds is gleaned in half a second. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
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Hong, Y. & Freeman, J.B. (in press). Shifts in facial impression structures across group boundaries. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
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Freeman, J.B. & Chwe, J.A. (in press). Social categorization: Looking towards the future. In D. Carlston, K.L. Johnson, & K. Hugenberg (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press.
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2022
Oh, D., Martin, J.D., & Freeman, J.B. (2022). Personality across world regions predicts variability in the structure of face impressions. Psychological Science, 33, 1240–1256.
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Bin Meshar, M., Stolier, R.M., & Freeman, J.B. (2022). Facial stereotyping drives judgments of perceptually ambiguous social groups. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 1221–1229.
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Freeman, J.B., Johnson, K.L., & Stroessner, S.J. (2022). Accuracy in social judgment does not exclude the potential for bias: Commentary on Cesario. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e75.
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Harp, N.R., Freeman, J.B., & Neta, M. (2022). Mindfulness-based stress reduction triggers a long-term shift toward more positive appraisals of emotional ambiguity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 2160-2172.
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Freeman, J.B. (2022). To fix LGBTQ+ disparities in science, we need the data. Nature, 612, 191.
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Chua, K.-W. & Freeman, J.B. (2022). Learning to judge a book by its cover: Rapid acquisition of facial stereotypes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 98, 104225.
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2021
Xie, S.Y., Flake, J.K., Stolier, R.M., Freeman, J.B., & Hehman, E. (2021). Facial impressions are predicted by the structure of group stereotypes. Psychological Science, 32, 1979–1993.
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Chua, K-W. & Freeman, J.B. (2021). Facial stereotype bias is mitigated by training. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
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Freeman, J.B. (2021). STEM disparities we must measure. Science, 374, 1333-1334.
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Oh, D., Walker, M., & Freeman, J.B. (2021). Person knowledge shapes face identity perception. Cognition, 217, 104889.
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Barnett, B.O., Brooks, J.A., & Freeman, J.B. (2021). Stereotypes bias face perception via orbitofrontal-fusiform cortical interaction. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 302-314.
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Neta, M., Berkebile, M.M., & Freeman, J.B. (2021). The dynamic process of ambiguous emotion perception. Cognition & Emotion, 35, 722-729.
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Brooks, J.A., Stolier, R.M., & Freeman, J.B. (2021). Computational approaches to the neuroscience of social perception. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 827-837.
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Jones, B.C., DeBruine, L.M., Flake, J.K., ... ,Stolier, R.M., Oh, D., Freeman, J.B., ... , & Coles, N.A. (2021). To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply? Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 159–169.
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2020
Freeman, J.B. (2020). Measuring and resolving LGBTQ disparities in STEM. Policy Insights from the Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 7, .141-148.
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Stolier, R. M., Hehman, E. & Freeman, J. B. (2020). Trait Knowledge Forms a Common Structure across Social Cognition. Nature Human Behaviour. 4, 361-371.
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Freeman, J.B., Stolier, R.M., & Brooks, J.A. (2020). Dynamic Interactive Theory as a Domain-General Account of Social Perception. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 63, 237-287.
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2019
Brooks, J.A., Chikazoe, J., Sadato, N., & Freeman, J.B. (2019). The Neural Representation of Facial Emotion Categories Reflects Conceptual Structure. PNAS, 116 (32), 15861-15870.
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Hehman E., Stolier R.M., Freeman J.B., Flake J.K., & Xie S.Y. (2019). Toward a Comprehensive Model of Face Impressions: What We Know, What We Do Not, and Paths Forward. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13 (2), e12431.
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Stillerman, B.S. & Freeman, J.B. (2019). Mouse-Tracking for Understanding Real-Time Cognitive Dynamics. In M. Schulte-Mecklenbeck, A. Kuhberger, & J. Johnson (Eds.), A Handbook of Process Tracing Methods for Decision Research, 2nd Edition. Taylor & Francis.
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Krendl, A.C. & Freeman, J.B. (2019). Are Mental Illnesses Stigmatized for the Same Reasons?: Identifying the Unique Stigma-related Traits Underlying Common Mental Illnesses. Journal of Mental Health, 28 (3), 267-275.
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2018
Brooks, J.A. & Freeman, J.B. (2018). Conceptual Knowledge Predicts the Representational Structure of Facial Emotion Perception. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 581-591.
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Freeman, J.B., Stolier, R.M., Brooks, J.A., & Stillerman, B.A. (2018). The Neural Representational Geometry of Social Perception. Current Opinion in Psychology, 24, 83-91.
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Stolier, R.M., Hehman, E., Keller, M.D., Walker, M., & Freeman, J.B. (2018). The Conceptual Structure of Face Impressions. PNAS, 115 (37). 9210-9215.
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Freeman, J.B. (2018). Doing Psychological Science By Hand. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(5), 315-323.
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Brooks, J.A., Stolier, R.M., & Freeman, J.B. (2018). Stereotypes Bias Visual Prototypes for Sex and Emotion Categories. Social Cognition, 36 (5), 481-493.
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Stolier, R.M., Hehman, E.A., & Freeman, J.B. (2018).A Dynamic Structure of Social Trait Space. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22 (3), 197-200.
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Freeman, J.B. (2018). LGBTQ scientists are still left out. Nature, 559, 27-28.
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Brambilla, M. Biella, M., & Freeman, J.B. (2018). The Influence of Visual Context on the Evaluation of Facial Trustworthiness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 78, 34-42.
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Hehman, E.A., Flake, J.K., & Freeman, J.B. (2018). The Faces of Group Members Share Physical Resemblance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44 (1), 3-15.
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Freeman, J.B. (2018). The Dynamic-Interactive Model Approach to the Perception of Facial Emotion. In R. Davidson, A. Shackman, A. Fox, & R. Lapate, The Nature of Emotion, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press.
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Brooks, J.A. & Freeman, J.B. (2018). The Psychology and Neuroscience of Person Perception. In J. Wixted, Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition. Wiley.
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Lopez, R.B., Stillman, P.E., Heatherton, T.F., & Freeman, J.B. (2018). Minding One’s Reach (to Eat): The Promise of Computer Mouse-Tracking to Study Self-Regulation of Eating. Frontiers in Nutrition, 5 (43). 1-6.
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2017
Brooks. J.A. & Freeman, J.B. (2017). Neuroimaging of Person Perception: A Social-Visual Interface. Neuroscience Letters. (special issue on Functional Imaging of the Emotional Brain). 693. 40-43.
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Lick, D.J., Alter, A.L., & Freeman, J.B. (2017).Superior Pattern Detectors Efficiently Learn, Activate, Apply, and Update Social Stereotypes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 147 (2), 209-227.
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Stolier, R.M. & Freeman, J.B. (2017). A Neural Mechanism of Social Categorization. Journal of Neuroscience, 37 (23), 5711-5721.
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Cassidy, B.S., Sprout, G.T., Freeman, J.B., & Krendl, A.C. (2017). Looking the Part (to Me): Effects of Racial Prototypicality on Race Perception Vary By Prejudice. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12 (4), 685-694.
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Stolier, R.M. & Freeman, J.B. (2017). Functional and Temporal Considerations for Top-Down Influences in Social Perception. Psychological Inquiry, 27 (4), 352-357.
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2016
Lazerus, T., Ingbretsen, Z., Stolier, R.M., Freeman, J.B., & Cikara, M. (2016). Positivity Bias in Judging In-Group Members’ Emotional Expressions. Emotion, 16 (8), 1117-1125.
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Stolier, R.M. & Freeman, J.B. (2016). Neural Pattern Similarity Reveals the Inherent Intersection of Social Categories. Nature Neuroscience, 19 (6), 795-797.
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Freeman, J.B. & Johnson, K.L. (2016). More Than Meets the Eye: Split-Second Social Perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20 (5). 362-374.
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Freeman, J.B., Pauker, K., & Sanchez, D.T. (2016). A Perceptual Pathway to Bias: Interracial Exposure Reduces Abrupt Shifts in Real-Time Race Perception That Predict Mixed-Race Bias. Psychological Science, 27 (4). 502-517.
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Mattek, A.M., Whalen, P.J., Berkowitz, J.L., & Freeman, J.B. (2016). Differential Effects of Cognitive Load on Subjective Versus Motor Responses to Ambiguously Valenced Facial Expressions. Emotion, 16 (6), 929 - 936.
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Rule, N.O., Johnson, K.L., & Freeman, J.B. (2016). Evidence for the Absence of Stimulus Quality Differences in Tests of the Accuracy of Sexual Orientation Judgments: A Reply to Cox et al. Journal of Sex Research, 54 (7). 813-819.
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Stolier, R.M. & Freeman, J.B. (2016). The Neuroscience of Social Vision. In J. Cloutier & J. R. Absher (eds.), Neuroimaging Personality, Social Cognition and Character: Traits and Mental States in the Brain, 139-157. Elsevier.
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Vinson, D.W., Abney, D.H., Amso, D., Chemero, T., Cutting, J.E., Dale, R., Freeman, J.B., Feldman, L.B., Friston, K., Gallagher, S., Jordan, J.S., Mudrik, L., Ondobaka, S., Richardson, D., Shams, L., Shiffrar, M., & Spivey, M. (2016). Perception, as You Make It. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, e260.
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2015
Freeman, J.B., Ma, Y., Barth, M., Young, S.G., Han, S., & Ambady, N. (2015).The Neural Basis of Contextual Influences on Face Categorization. Cerebral Cortex, 25 (2). 415-422.
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Hehman, E., Flake, J.K, Freeman, J.B. (2015). Static and Dynamic Facial Cues Differentially Impact the Consistency of Social Evaluations. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 41 (8), 1123-1134.
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Carpinella, C.M., Hehman, E., Freeman, J.B., Johnson, K.L. (2015). The Gendered Face of Partisan Politics: Consequences of Facial Sex-Typicality for Vote Choice. Political Communication, 33 (1), 1-15.
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Chen, P.-H. A., Whalen, P. J., Freeman, J. B., Taylor, J.M., & Heatherton, T.F. (2015). Brain Reward Activity to Masked In-Group Smiling Faces Predicts Friendship Development. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8 (4), 415-421.
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Chen, P.-H.A., Heatherton, T.F., & Freeman, J.B. (2015). Brain-as-Predictor Approach: An Alternative Way to Explore Acculturation Processes. In J.E. Warnick & D. Landis, Handbook of Intercultural Relations Neuroscience. 143-170. Springer.
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2014
Ambady, N. & Freeman, J. B. (2014). The Cultural Neuroscience of Human Perception. In M. Gazzaniga (ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences, 5th Edition. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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Cloutier, J., Freeman, J.B., & Ambady, N. (2014). Investigating the Early Stages of Person Perception: The Asymmetry of Social Categorization By Sex vs. Age. PLoS ONE, 9 (1), e84677.
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Freeman, J. B., Stolier, R. M., Ingbretsen, Z.A., & Hehman, E. (2014). Amygdala Responsivity to High-Level Social Information From Unseen Faces. Journal of Neuroscience, 34 (32), 10573-10581.
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Freeman, J.B. & Stolier, R.M. (2014). The Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Constructing Personality Models. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18 (11), 571-572.
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Freeman, J.B. (2014). Abrupt Category Shifts During Real-Time Person Perception. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21 (1), 85-92.
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Freeman, J.B. & Ambady, N. (2014). The Dynamic Interactive Model of Person Construal: Coordinating Sensory and Social Processes. In J. Sherman, B. Gawronski, & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual Process Theories of the Social Mind. 235-248. New York: The Guilford Press.
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Hehman, E., Ingbretsen, Z.A., & Freeman, J.B. (2014). The Neural Basis of Stereotypic Impact on Multiple Social Categorization. NeuroImage, 101, 704-711.
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Hehman, E., Carpinella, C.M., Johnson, K.L., Leitner, J.B., & Freeman, J.B. (2014). Early Processing of Gendered Facial Cues Predicts the Electoral Success of Female Politicians. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 815-824.
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Hehman, E., Leitner, J.B., Freeman, J.B. (2014). The Face-Time Continuum: Lifespan Changes in Facial Width-to-Height Ratio Impact Aging-Associated Perceptions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(12), 1624-1636.
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Hehman, E., Stolier, R.M., & Freeman, J.B. (2014). Advanced Mouse-Tracking Analytic Techniques for Enhancing Psychological Science. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations [special issue on Statistical and Methodological Advances]. 1-18.
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Powers, K.E., Worsham, A.L., Freeman, J.B., Wheatley, T., & Heatherton, T.F. (2014). Social Connection Modulates Perceptions of Animacy. Psychological Science, 25 (10), 1943-1948.
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Rule, N.O., Tskhay, T., Freeman, J.B., & Ambady, N. (2014). On the Interactive Influence of Facial Appearance and Explicit Knowledge in Social Categorization. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44 (6), 529-535.
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2013
Freeman, J.B. (2013). Within-Cultural Variation and the Scope of Cultural Neuroscience [Commentary on Chiao et al.]. Psychological Inquiry, 24 (1), 26-30.
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Freeman, J.B., Ma, Y., Han, S., & Ambady, N. (2013). Influences of Culture and Visual Context on Real-Time Social Categorization. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49 (2), 206-210.
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Freeman, J.B. & Dale, R. (2013). Assessing Bimodality to Detect the Presence of a Dual Cognitive Process. Behavior Research Methods, 45 (1), 83-97.
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Freeman, J.B., Nakayama, K., & Ambady, N. (2013). Finger in Flight Reveals Parallel Categorization Across Multiple Social Dimensions. Social Cognition, 31 (6), 792-805.
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Pauker, K., Ambady, N., & Freeman, J.B.(2013). The Power of Identity to Motivate Face Memory in Biracial Individuals. Social Cognition, 31 (6), 780-791.
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Pfister, R., Schwarz, K.A., Janczyk, M., Dale, R., & Freeman, J.B. (2013). Good Things Peak in Pairs: A Note on the Bimodality Coefficient. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 700.
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Rule, N.O., Freeman, J.B., & Ambady, N. (2013). Culture in Social Neuroscience: A Review. Social Neuroscience, 8 (1), 3-10.
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2012
Farmer, T.A., Anderson, S.E., Freeman, J.B., & Dale, R. (2012). Coordinating Motor Actions and Language. In P. Pyykkonen & M. W. Crocker (Eds.), Visually Situated Language Comprehension. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Freeman, J.B., Johnson, K.L., Adams, R.B., & Ambady, N. (2012). The Social-Sensory Interface: Category Interactions in Person Perception. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, e81.
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Johnson, K.L., Freeman, J.B., & Pauker, K. (2012). Race Is Gendered: How Covarying Phenotypes and Stereotypes Bias Sex Categorization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102 (1), 116-131.
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Rule, N.O., Adams, R.B., Ambady, N., & Freeman, J.B. (2012). Perceptions of Dominance Following Glimpses of Faces and Bodies. Perception, 41 (6), 687-706.
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2011
Freeman, J.B. & Ambady, N. (2011). A Dynamic Interactive Theory of Person Construal. Psychological Review, 118 (2), 247-279.
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Freeman, J.B., Ambady, N., Midgley, K.J., & Holcomb, P.J. (2011). The Real-Time Link Between Person Perception and Action: Brain Potential Evidence for Dynamic Continuity. Social Neuroscience, 6 (2), 139-155.
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Freeman, J.B. & Ambady, N. (2011). Hand Movements Reveal the Time-Course of Shape and Pigmentation Processing in Face Categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 705-712.
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Freeman, J.B. & Ambady, N. (2011). When Two Become One: Temporally Dynamic Integration of the Face and Voice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47 (1), 259-263.
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Freeman, J.B., Penner, A.M., Saperstein, A., Scheutz, M., & Ambady, N. (2011). Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception. PLoS ONE, 6 (9), e25107.
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Freeman, J.B., Dale, R., & Farmer, T.A. (2011). Hand in Motion Reveals Mind in Motion. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 59.
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Rule, N.O., Freeman, J.B., & Ambady, N. (2011). Brain and Behavior in Cultural Context: Insights From Cognition, Perception, and Emotion. In S. Han & E. Poeppel (Eds.) Culture and identity: Neural frames of social cognition. New York: Springer.
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Rule N.O., Moran J.M., Freeman J.B., Gabrieli J.D.E., Whitfield-Gabrieli S., & Ambady N. (2011). Face Value: Amygdala Response Reflects the Validity of First Impressions. NeuroImage, 54 (1), 734-741.
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2010
Adams, R.B., Franklin, R., Rule, N.O., Freeman, J.B., Kveraga, K., Hadjikhani, N., Yoshikawa, S., & Ambady, N. (2010). Culture, Gaze, and the Neural Processing of Fear Expressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5 (2-3), 340-348.
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Freeman, J.B., Rule, N.O., Adams, R.B., Jr., & Ambady, N. (2010). The Neural Basis of Categorical Face Perception: Graded Representations of Face Gender in Fusiform and Orbitofrontal Cortices. Cerebral Cortex, 20 (6) 1314-1322.
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Freeman, J.B., Johnson, K.L., Ambady, N., & Rule, N.O. (2010). Sexual Orientation Perception Involves Gendered Facial Cues. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36 (10), 1318-1331.
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Freeman, J.B., Schiller, D., Rule, N.O., & Ambady, N. (2010). The Neural Origins of Superficial and Individuated Judgments About Ingroup and Outgroup Members. Human Brain Mapping, 31 (1) , 150-159.
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Freeman, J.B., Pauker, K., Apfelbaum, E.P., & Ambady, N. (2010). Continuous Dynamics in the Real-Time Perception of Race. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46 (1), 179-185.
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Freeman, J.B. & Ambady, N. (2010). Mousetracker: Software for Studying Real-Time Mental Processing Using a Computer Mouse-Tracking Method. Behavior Research Methods, 42 (1) , 226-241.
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Freeman, J.B., Ambady, N., & Holcomb, P.J. (2010). The Face-Sensitive N170 Encodes Social Category Information. NeuroReport, 21 (1), 24-28.
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Johnson, K.L. & Freeman, J.B. (2010). A “New Look” at Person Construal: Seeing Beyond Dominance and Discreteness. In E. Balcetis & D. Lassiter (Eds.) The Social Psychology of Visual Perception. New York: Psychology Press.
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Rule, N.O., Freeman, J.B., Moran, J.M., Gabrieli, J.D.E., Adams, R.B., & Ambady, N. (2010). Voting Behavior Is Reflected in Amygdala Response Across Culture. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5 (1-2), 349-355.
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2009
Freeman, J.B. & Ambady, N. (2009). Motions of the Hand Expose The Partial and Parallel Activation of Stereotypes. Psychological Science, 20(10) , 1183-1188.
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Freeman, J.B., Rule, N.O., Adams, R.B., Jr., & Ambady, N. (2009). Culture Shapes a Mesolimbic Response to Signals of Dominance and Subordination That Associates With Behavior. NeuroImage, 47 (1), 353-359.
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Freeman, J.B., Rule, N.O., & Ambady, N. (2009). The Cultural Neuroscience of Person Perception Progress in Brain Research, 178, 191-201.
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Schiller, D., Freeman, J.B., Mitchell, J.P., Uleman, J.S., & Phelps, E.A. (2009). A Neural Mechanism of First Impressions. Nature Neuroscience, 12 (4), 508-514.
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2008
Freeman, J.B., Ambady, N., Rule, N.O., & Johnson, K.L. (2008). Will a Category Cue Attract You? Motor Output Reveals Dynamic Competition Across Person Construal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 673-690.
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