Research in the Social Cognition theme investigates the factors involved in social interactions and decisions using a wide-range of behavioural and neuroimaging techniques. Recent projects have been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the European Research Council (ERC). The theme leader is Prof Mike Burton and other members include Dr Kevin Allan, Dr Lisa DeBruine, Prof Rhona Flin, Prof Benedict Jones, Prof Neil Macrae, Dr Douglas Martin, Dr Lynden Miles, and Dr David Turk.
Recent research highlights
- DeBruine, L. M., Jones, B. C., Watkins, C. D., Roberts, S. C., Little, A. C., Smith, F. G. & Quist, M. (2011). Opposite-sex siblings decrease attraction, but not prosocial attributions, to self-resembling opposite-sex faces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 11710-11714.
- DeBruine, L. M., Jones, B. C., Crawford, J. R., Welling, L. L. M. & Little, A. C. (2010). The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences: Cross-cultural variation in women's preferences for masculinized male faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 277, 2405-2410.
- Jenkins, A. C., Macrae, C. N. & Mitchell, J .P. (2008). Repetition suppression of ventromedial prefrontal activity during judgments of self and others. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 4507-4512.
- Jenkins, R. & Burton, A. M. (2008). 100% accuracy in automatic face recognition. Science, 319, 435.
- Jones, B. C., Main, J. C., DeBruine, L. M., Little, A. C. & Welling, L. L. M. (2010). Reading the look of love: Sexually dimorphic cues in opposite-sex faces influence gaze-categorization. Psychological Science, 21, 796-798
- Kaufmann, J. M., Schweinberger, S. R. & Burton, A. M. (2009). N250 ERP Correlates of the acquisition of face representations across different images. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 625-641.
- Little, A. C., DeBruine, L. M. & Jones, B. C. (2011). The many faces of face research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 366, 1638-1659. [all authors contributed equally]
- Miles, L. K., Nind, L. K. & Macrae, C. N. (2010). Moving through time. Psychological Science, 21, 222-223.
- Macrae, C. N., Duffy, O. K., Miles, L. K. & Lawrence, J. (2008). A case of hand waving: Action synchrony and person perception. Cognition, 109, 152-156.
- Quadflieg, S., Turk, D. J., Waiter, G. D., Mitchell, J. P., Jenkins, A. C. & Macrae, C. N. (2009). Exploring the neural correlates of social stereotyping. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1560-1570.