We welcomed Dr. Jason Deska from Ryerson University on Feb 3rd to give a talk at our weekly Social-Personality Colloquium Series (Brownbag).
The name of his talk was “Reading Minds from Faces: Forming and Updating Impressions of Minds”. Please see his website for more details about his research program!
Abstract: Perceiving others’ minds is a fundamental cognitive skill that is essential for human social interaction. It is what allows individuals to connect, groups to form, and societies to flourish. Despite this, people do not always perceive mind in fellow humans equally. In this talk, I will present data describing how people use low-level cues present in the faces and bodies of others to form and update impressions of others’ minds. Together, this work highlights how everyday social perception processes can produce and sustain (de)humanizing judgments of others.