Representative Publications:
Young, S. G., Tracy, R. E., Wilson, J. P., 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.
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. Evoluationary 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.
Almaraz, S. G., Hugenberg, K., & Young, S. G. (2018). Perceiving sophisticated minds influences perceptual individuation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 143-157.
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., Thorstenson, C. A., & Pazda, A. D. (2018). Facial redness, expression, and masculinity influence perceptions of anger and health. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 49-60.
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.
Young, S. G. (2017). An outgroup advantage in discriminating between genuine and posed smiles. Self and Identity, 16, 298-312.
Hugenberg, K., Young, S.G., Rydell, B.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.
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.
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.