Social psychology of visual perception / edited by Emily Balcetis and G. Daniel Lassiter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: a new look at the "new look" / Jerome Bruner -- Ambiguity and social perception / Kristin Pauker, Nicholas O. Rule, and Nalini Ambady -- Motivation across time and place : what gaze can tell us about aging and culture / Derek M. Isaacowitz and Helene H. Fung -- Cultural modes of seeing through cultural modes of being : cultural influences on visual attention / Sean Duffy and Shinobu Kitayama -- Wishful seeing : motivational influences on visual perception of the physical environment / Emily Balcetis and David Dunning -- Male or female? An investigation of factors that modulate the visual perception of another's sex / Lucy Johnston, Lynden Miles, and C. Neil Macrae -- Affect as a source visual attention / Mariann Weierich and Lisa Feldman Barrett -- Through the lens of emotion : the role of the amygdala in emotionality, arousal, and attention to the visual world / Rebecca M. Todd and Adam K. Anderson -- Context and social effects on face recognition / Maria Pia Viggiano and Tessa Marzi -- Embodied simulation : a conduit for converting seeing into perceiving / Lindsay M. Oberman, Piotr Winkielman, and Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -- Top-down influences on the perception of ongoing behavior / G. Daniel Lassiter ... [et al.] -- A new look at person construal : seeing beyond dominance and discreteness / Kerri Johnson and Jonathan B. Freeman -- Emotional high : emotion and the perception of spatial layout / Jeanine K. Stefanucci -- "Cue, view, action" : an ecological approach to person perception / Joann M. Montepare.

This volume synthesizes social, cognitive, ecological, evolutionary, and neuroscience research, showing that the way in which people perceive the world changes with their cognitions, emotions, goals, motivations, culture, and other factors traditionally considered exclusive to social, personality, and cognitive psychology.