Document Type
Preprint
Publication Date
11-1-2019
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Abstract
The human face conveys a wealth of information, including traits, states, and intentions. Just as fundamentally, the face also signals the humanity of a person. In the current research we report two experiments providing evidence that disruptions of configural face encoding affect the temporal dynamics of categorization during attempts to distinguish human from non-human faces. Specifically, the present experiments utilize mouse-tracking and find that face inversion elicits confusion amongst human and non-human categories early in the processing of human faces. This work affords the first examination of how facial inversion affects the dynamic processes underlying categorization of human and non-human faces.
DOI
10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103883
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Young, Steven G.; Tracy, Ryan E.; Wilson, John Paul; Rydell, Robert J.; and Hugenberg, Kurt, "The temporal dynamics of the link between configural face processing and dehumanization" (2019). Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 689.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/psychology-facpubs/689