Background Due to the great importance of the face in social interaction, minimally invasive
treatments can—besides their ability to rejuvenate and enhance beauty—also change the …

The literature on the approach/avoidance training (AAT) effect has focused on its evaluative
consequences (with approached stimuli evaluated as more positive than avoided ones) …

Typically, individuals are motivated to see themselves in a flattering light regarding their
physical and personality characteristics. We suggest that visual self‐perception is anchored …

Previous research shows that stereotypes can distort the visual representation of groups in a
top-down fashion. In the present endeavor, we tested if the compensation effect—the …

Reverse correlation (RC) is a data-driven method from social psychology that has been
effectively shown to visualize the mental representations that humans hold regarding facial …

Bullshit is a topic that has enjoyed an explosion of attention in both cognitive and social
psychological research domains. While the picture painted thus far suggests that receptivity …

We investigated, by means of the Reverse Correlation Task (RCT), visual representations of
the culturally dominating group of local people held by sojourners as a function of their …