In Press/2020::
Thorstenson, C.C., McPhetres, J., Pazda, A.D., & Young, S.G. (in press). The role of facial coloration in emotion disambiguation. Emotion.
Young, S.G., Brown, M.B., & Sacco, D.F. (in press). Using Psychological Science to Support Social Distancing: Tradeoffs between Affiliation and Disease-Avoidance Motivations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
Claypool, H.M., Trujillo, A., Bernstein, M.J., & Young, S.G. (2020). Experiencing vicarious rejection in the wake of the 2016 Presidential election. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 23, 179-194.
Engle-Friedman, M. & Young, S.G. (2020). Sleep’s role in effortful performance and sociability. In Z.Krizan (Ed.), Sleep, Personality, and Social Behavior. New York: Springer.
Tracy, R.E., Wilson, J.P., Slepian, M.L., & Young, S.G. (2020). Facial Trustworthiness Predicts Ingroup Inclusion Decisions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 91, 104047
Tracy, R.E., Wylie, J.C., & Young, S.G., (2020). The Effects of Intergroup Processes on the Identification and Expression of Emotion. in A. Freitas-Magalhães & J. Borod (Eds.) Handbook in Facial Expressions of Emotion (Vol. 3). Porto: University of Fernando Pessoa Press.
Young, S.G., & Elliot, A.E. (2020). The influence of competition and performance goals on decoding complex emotions. Motivation and Emotion, 44, 911-920.
2019:
Brown, M., Medlin, M. M., Sacco, D. F., & Young, S. G. (2019). Facing competing motives: Testing for motivational tradeoffs in affiliative and pathogen-avoidant motives via extraverted face preferences. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 5, 1-7.
Thorstenson, C. A., Pazda, A. D., Young, S. G., & Slepian, M. L. (2019). Incidental cues to threat and racial categorization. Social Cognition, 37, 398-404.
Young, S. G., Goldberg, M. H., Rydell, R. J., & Hugenberg, K. (2019). Trait anthropomorphism predicts ascribing human traits to upright but not inverted chimpanzee faces. Social Cognition, 37, 105-121.
Young, S. G., Tracy, R. E., Rydell, R. J., & Hugenberg, K. (2019). The temporal dynamics of the link between configural face processing and dehumanization. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103883.
2018:
Almaraz, S. G., Hugenberg, K., & Young, S. G. (2018). Perceiving sophisticated minds influences perceptual individuation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 143-157.
Brown, M., Sacco, D. F., & Young, S. G. (2018). Spontaneous laughter as an analog to auditory affiliative intent. Evoluationary Psychological Science, 4, 285-291.
Hutchins, B. & Young, S.G. (2018). State Anxiety. In Shackleford T. K. & Ziegler-Hill (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer: New York.
Thorstenson, C. A., Pazda, A. D., Young, S. G., & Elliot, A. J. (2018). Face color facilitates the disambiguation of confusing emotion expressions: Toward a social functional account of face color in emotion communication. Emotion, 19, 799-807.
Wilson, J. P., Young, S. G., Rule, N. O., & Hugenberg, K. (2018). Configural processing and social judgments: Face inversion particularly disrupts inferences of human-relevant traits. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 74, 1-7.
Young, S.G. (2018). Social Goals. In Shackleford T. K. & Ziegler-Hill (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer: New York.
Young, S. G., Thorstenson, C. A., & Pazda, A. D. (2018). Facial redness, expression, and masculinity influence perceptions of anger and health. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 49-60.
Young, S. G., & Wilson, J. P. (2018). A minimal ingroup advantage in emotion identification confidence. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 192-199.
2017:
Cassidy, B. S., Krendl, A. C., Stanko, K. A., Rydell, R. J., Young, S. G., & Hugenberg, K. (2017). Configural face processing impacts race disparities in humanization and trust. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 111-124.
Sacco, D. F., Brown, M., Lustgraaf, C. J. N., & Young, S. G. (2017). Womens' dangerous world beliefs predict more accurate discrimination of affiliative facial cues. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 11, 309-315.
Slepian, M. L., Young, S. G., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2017). An approach-avoidance motivational model of trustworthiness judgments. Motivation Science, 3, 91-97.
Young, S. G. (2017). An outgroup advantage in discriminating between genuine and posed smiles. Self and Identity, 16, 298-312.
Young, S. G., Brown, C. M., & Hutchins, B (2017). Ease-of-retrieval provides meta-cognitive information about social affiliation. Social Cognition, 35, 54-65.
2016:
Hugenberg, K., Young, S.G., Rydell, R. J., Almaraz, S. M., Stanko, K. A., See, P. E., & Wilson, J. P. (2016). The Face of Humanity: Configural Face Processing Influences Ascriptions of Humanness. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 167-175.
Sacco, D. F., Bermond, A., & Young, S. G. (2016). Evidence for the lipstick effect at the level of automatic visual attention. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 10, 213-218.
Young, S. G., Jones, I. F., & Claypool, H. M. (2016). Stimulus threat and exposure context modulate the effect of mere exposure on approach behaviors. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1881.
Young, S. G., & Lamson, W. (2016). Task framing reduces emotion decoding negativity biases in social anxiety. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 46, 607-614.
2015:
Brown, C.M., Shilling, A.A., Young, S.G., & Berrong, L.E. (2015). Acceptance and rejection of pets and parasocial others cause corresponding changes in the self’s perceived relational value. Self and Identity, 14, 233-251.
Freeman, J.B., Ma, Y., Barth, M., Young, S.G., Han, S., & Ambady, N. (2015). The neural basis of contextual influences on face perception. Cerebral Cortex, 25, 415-422.
Lustgraaf, C.J.N., Sacco, D.F., & Young, S.G. (2015). Duchenne Smiles and Social Perception: Evolutionary, Neuroscientific, and Social Cognitive Considerations. In A. Freitas-Magalhães (Ed.), Emotional Expression: The Brain and the Face. (vol. 6). Porto: University of Fernando Pessoa Press.
Young, S.G. (2015). The effect of red on male perceptions of female attractiveness: Moderation by baseline attractiveness of female faces. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 146-151.
Young, S.G., Slepian, M.L., & Sacco, D.F. (2015). Sensitivity to perceived facial trustworthiness is increased by activating self-protection motives. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 707-713.
2014:
Bernstein, M.J., Sacco, D.F., Young, S.G., & Hugenberg, K. (2014). The impact of race and inclusion status on memory for ingroup and outgroup faces. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 36, 191-198.
Pravossoudovtich, K., Cury, F., Young, S.G., & Elliot, A. (2014). Is red the color of danger? Testing an implicit red-danger association. Ergonomics, 57, 503-510.
Sacco, D.F., Bernstein, M.J., Young, S.G., & Hugenberg, K. (2014). Reactions to social inclusion and exclusion as a function of perceived ingroup similarity. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, & Practice, 18, 129-137.
Sacco, D.F. & Young, S.G. (2014). Facial emotion decoding: Neural, cognitive, and behavioral evidence for domain-specificity. In A. Freitas-Magalhães (Ed.), Emotional Expressions: The Brain and the Face (Vol.5). Porto: University of Fernando Pessoa Press.
Sacco, D.F., Young, S.G., & Hugenberg, K. (2014). Balancing competing motives: adaptive trade-offs are necessary to satisfy disease avoidance and interpersonal affiliation goals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 40, 1611-1623.
Young, S.G., Slepian, M.L., Wilson, J.P., & Hugenberg, K. (2014). Averted eye-gaze disrupts holistic face encoding. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 53, 94-99.
Zhou, G., Pu., X., Young, S.G., & Tse, C.S. (2014). Effects of divided attention and social categorization on the Own-Race Bias in face recognition. Visual Cognition, 22, 1296-1310.
2013:
Bernstein, M.J., Claypool, H.M., Young, S.G., Tuscherer, T., Sacco, D.F., & Brown, C.M. (2013). Never let them see you cry: Self-presentation as a moderator of the relationship between exclusion and implicit and explicit self-esteem. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 39, 1293-1305.
Hugenberg, K., Wilson, J.P., See. P.E., & Young, S.G. (2013). Toward a synthetic model of own-group biases in face memory. Visual Cognition, 21, 1392-1417.
Slepian, M.L., Young, S.G., Rutchick, A.B., & Ambady, N. (2013). Quality of professional players’ poker hands is perceived accurately from arm motions. Psychological Science, 24, 2335-2338.
Young, S.G., Elliot, A.E., Feltman, R, & Ambady, N. (2013). Red enhances the processing of facial expressions of anger. Emotion, 13, 380-384.
2012:
Sacco, D.F., Young, S.G., Brown, C.M., Bernstein, M.J., & Hugenberg, K. (2012). Social exclusion and female mating behavior: Rejected women show strategic enhancement of short-term mating interest. Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 573-587.
Slepian, M.L., Young, S.G., Rule, N.O., Weisbuch, M., & Ambady, N. (2012). Embodied impression formation: Social judgments and motor cues to approach and avoidance. Social Cognition, 30, 232-240.
Young, S.G., Brown, C.M., & Ambady, N. (2012). Priming natural or human-made environments directs attention to context-congruent threatening stimuli. Cognition and Emotion, 26, 927-933.
Young, S.G., & Hugenberg, K. (2012). Individuation motivation and face expertise operate jointly to produce the Own Race Bias. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 80-87.
Young, S.G., & Hugenberg, K. Bernstein, M.J., & Sacco, D.F. (2012). Perception and motivation in face recognition: A critical review of theories of the Cross Race Effect. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 16, 116-142.
Young, S.G., Hugenberg, K., & Prokhovnik, A. (2012). Group level and individual level influences on emotion expression decoding. In S.E. Carter and V.E. Taylor (Eds.). Facial Expressions: Dynamic Patterns, Impairments, and Social Perceptions. Hauppauge NY: Nova Publishers.
2011:
Hugenberg, K., Young, S.G., Sacco, D.F., & Bernstein, M.J. (2011). Social cognitive influences on the processing of emotion and identity recognition. In A.J. Calder, G. Rhodes, J.V. Haxby, and M. H. Johnson, (Eds.), The Handbook of Face Perception. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jones, I.F., Young, S.G., & Claypool, H.M. (2011). Approaching the familiar: On the ability of mere exposure to direct approach and avoidance behaviors. Motivation and Emotion, 35, 383-392.
Sacco, D.F., Brown, C.M., Young S.G., Bernstein, M.J., & Hugenberg, K. (2011). Social acceptance facilitates male engagement in multiple mating tactics. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 985-998.
Young, S.G., Sacco, D.F., & Hugenberg, K. (2011). Vulnerability to disease is associated with a domain-specific preference for symmetrical faces relative to symmetrical non-face stimuli. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 558-563.
2010:
Bernstein, M.J., Sacco, D.F., Brown, C.M., Young, S.G., & Claypool, H.M. (2010). A preference for genuine smiles following social exclusion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 196-199.
Bernstein, M.J., Sacco, D.F., Young, S.G., Cook, E., & Hugenberg, K. (2010). Being ‘in’ with the in-crowd: The effects of social exclusion and inclusion are enhanced by shared ingroup status. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 999-1009.
Bernstein, M.J., Young, S.G., & Claypool, H.M. (2010). Is Obama’s win a gain for African-Americans? Changes in implicit racial prejudice following the 2008 election. Social Psychology, 3, 141-147.
Hugenberg, K., Young, S.G., Bernstein, M.J., & Sacco, D.F. (2010). The categorization-individuation model: A social cognitive model of recognition biases. Psychological Review, 117, 1168-1187.
Young S.G., Bernstein, M.J., & Hugenberg, K. (2010). When do Own-Group Biases in face recognition occur? Encoding versus post-encoding. Social Cognition, 28, 240-250.
Young, S.G., & Claypool, H.M. (2010). Familiarity differentially effects attention allocation to threatening and non-threatening stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 424-427.
Young, S.G., & Hugenberg, K. (2010). Mere social categorization modulates identification of facial expressions of emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 964-977.
2009:
Brown, C.M., Young, S.G., & McConnell, A.R. (2009). Seeing close others as we see ourselves: One’s own-self-complexity is reflected in meaningful others. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 515-523.
Brown, C.M., Young, S.G., Sacco, D.F., Bernstein, M.J., & Claypool, H.M. (2009). Social acceptance facilitates interest in mating. Evolutionary Psychology, 7, 11-27.
Young, S.G., Bernstein, M.J., & Claypool. H.M. (2009). Rejected by the nation: The electoral loss of a candidate included in the self is experienced as personal rejection. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 9, 315-326.
Young, S.G., Hugenberg, K., Bernstein, M.J., & Sacco, D.F. (2009). Intergroup salience decreases recognition for same-race faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1123-1126.
2008/2007:
Bernstein, M.J., Young, S.G., Brown, C.M., Sacco, D.F., & Claypool, H.M. (2008). Adaptive responses to social exclusion: Social rejection improves detection of real and fake smiles. Psychological Science, 19, 981-983.
Shriver, E., Young, S.G., Hugenberg, K., Bernstein, M.J., & Lanter, J. (2008). Class, race, and the face: Outgroup contextual cues attenuate the own-race advantage in face recognition. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 260-274.
Bernstein, M.J., Young, S.G., & Hugenberg, K. (2007). The cross category effect: Mere social categorization is sufficient to elicit an own-group bias in face recognition. Psychological Science, 18, 706-712.