Representative Publications:
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.
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.
Sacco, D.F., Brown, M., Lustgraaf, C., & Young, S.G. (2015). Activation of self-protection threat increases women’s preferences for dominance in male faces. Human Ethology Bulletin, 4, 23-31.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.