Category: Neurobiology

Facial Impressions + masculinity

Bar, M., Neta, M., & Linz, H. (2006). Very first impressions.

Oh, D., Dotsch, R., Porter, J., & Todorov, A. (2020). Gender biases in impressions from faces: Empirical studies and computational models.

Oosterhof, N. N., & Todorov, A. (2008). The functional basis of face evaluation.

Todorov, A., Said, C. P., Engell, A. D., & Oosterhof, N. N. (2008). Understanding evaluation of faces on social dimensions.

Willis, J., & Todorov, A. (2006). First impressions: Making up your mind after 100 ms of exposure to a face.

Beauty as embodied experience

Blair, I. V., Judd, C. M., Sadler, M. S., & Jenkins, C. (2002). The role of Afrocentric features in person perception: judging by features and categories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Cash, T. F. (1990). Losing hair, losing points? The effects of male pattern baldness on social impression formation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

St. Bernard, J. S., & Gallagher, S. (2022). Race and the implicit aspects of embodied social interaction. In R. J. Thompson (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of philosophy and implicit cognition (pp. 313-323). Routledge.

Soliman, T., & Glenberg, A. M. (2014). The embodiment of culture. In L. Shapiro (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition (pp. 207-219). Routledge.

Willis, J., & Todorov, A. (2006). First impressions: Making up your mind after a 100-ms exposure to a face. Psychological Science.

Prediction dissonance

Clark, A. (2016). Surfing uncertainty: Prediction, action, and the embodied mind. Oxford University Press.

Clark, A. (2023). The experience machine: how our minds predict and shape reality. Penguin Books, UK.

Festinger, L. (1957). A theory of cognitive dissonance. Stanford University Press.

Harmon-Jones, E., Harmon-Jones, C., & Levy, N. (2015). An action-based model of cognitive-dissonance processes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24(3), 184-189.

Kaaronen, R. O. (2018). A theory of predictive dissonance: Predictive processing presents a new take on cognitive dissonance. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 2218.

MacFarquhar, L. (2018). The mind-expanding ideas of Andy Clark. The New Yorker, 26.

The brain as a prediction processor

Badcock, P. B., Friston, K. J., Ramstead, M. J., Ploeger, A., & Hohwy, J. (2019). The hierarchically mechanistic mind: an evolutionary systems theory of the human brain, cognition, and behavior. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, 1319-1351.

de Lange, F. P. d., Heilbron, M., & Kok, P. (2018). How do expectations shape perception? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(9), 764-779.

Walsh, K. S., McGovern, D. P., Clark, A., & O’Connell, R. G. (2020). Evaluating the neurophysiological evidence for predictive processing as a model of perception. Annals of the new York Academy of Sciences, 1464(1), 242-268.

Emotions + learning

Clark, A. (2018). A nice surprise? Predictive processing and the active pursuit of novelty. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 17(3), 521-534.

Festinger, L. (1957). A theory of cognitive dissonance. Stanford University Press.

Joffily, M., & Coricelli, G. (2013). Emotional valence and the free-energy principle. PLoS computational biology, 9(6), e1003094.

Oudeyer, P. Y., & Smith, L. B. (2016). How evolution may work through curiosity‐driven developmental process. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8(2), 492-502.

Exploration + Interoception

Craig, A. D. (2003). Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body. Current opinion in neurobiology, 13(4), 500-505.

Critchley, H. D., & Garfinkel, S. N. (2017). Interoception and emotion. Current opinion in psychology, 17, 7-14.

Ramsay, D. S., & Woods, S. C. (2014). Clarifying the roles of homeostasis and allostasis in physiological regulation. Psychological review, 121(2), 225.

Quadt, L., Critchley, H. D., & Garfinkel, S. N. (2018). Interoception and emotion: shared mechanisms and clinical implications. In M. Tsakiris & H. De Preester (eds.). The Interoceptive Mind: From Homeostasis to Awareness , (pp. 123-143). Oxford Academic.

White logic, white methods

A drive to increase diversity in clinical trials

Handley, G., Kubota, J. T., & Cloutier, J. (2023). Reading the mind in the eyes of Black and White people: Interracial contact and perceived race affects brain activity when inferring mental states. NeuroImage, 269, 119910.

Jovchelovitch, S. (2019). Knowledge in context: Representations, community and culture. Routledge.

Jovchelovitch, S. (2001). Social representations, public life and social construction.

Moscovici, S. (2001). Social representations: Explorations in social psychology. Polity Press.

Zuberi, T., & Bonilla-Silva, E. (Eds.). (2008). White logic, white methods: Racism and methodology. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.