So Com Lab Publications

Books

Johnson, K. L., & Shiffrar, M. (Eds.) (2013). People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception. New York: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, K. L. (Ed.) (2011). Nonverbal Communication and Body Language. Cognella Academic Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-60927-932-5

Journals Articles and Chapters

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Rule, N. O., Johnson, K. L., & Freeman, J. B. (in press). Evidence for the absence of a stimulus quality difference in tests of the accuracy of sexual orientation judgments: A reply to Cox et al. (2016). Journal of Sex Research. pdf

Lick, D. J., & Johnson, K. L. (2016). Straight until proven gay: A systematic bias toward straight categorizations in sexual orientation judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 801 – 817. pdf

Lick, D. J., & Johnson, K. L. (2016). Perceptually mediated preferences and prejudices. Psychological Inquiry, 27, 335 – 340. pdf

Carpinella, C. M., & Johnson, K. L. (2016). Face value: facial appearance and assessments of politicians. Politics: Oxford Research Encyclopedias. pdf

Freeman, J. F., & Johnson, K. L. (2016). More than meets the eye: Split-second social perception. Trends in Cognitive Science, 20, 362 – 374. pdf

Carpinella, C. M., & Johnson, K. L. (2016). Visual political communication: The impact of facial cues from social constituencies to personal pocketbooks. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 10, 281 – 297. pdf

Carpinella, C. M., Hehman, E., Freeman, J. B., & Johnson, K. L. (2016). The gendered face of partisan politics: Consequences of facial sex-typicality for vote choice. Political Communication, 33, 21 – 38. pdf

Lick, D. J., Cortland, C. I., & Johnson, K. L. (2016). The pupils are the windows to sexuality: Pupil dilation as a visual cue to others’ sexual interest. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37, 21 – 38. pdf

Kim, H. I., Johnson, K. L., & Johnson, S. P. (2015). Gendered race: Are infants’ face preferences guided by intersectionality of sex and race? Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1330. pdf

Lick, D. J., & Johnson, K. L. (2015). Intersecting race and gender cues are associated with perceptions of gay men’s preferred sexual roles. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1330. pdf

Lick, D. J., & Johnson, K. L. (2015). The interpersonal consequences of processing ease: Perceptual fluency as a metacognitive foundation for prejudice. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 143 – 148. pdf

Lick, D. J., Johnson, K. L., & Riskind, R. G. (2015). Haven’t I seen you before? Gender insecure men are vigilant to gender-atypical faces. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 18, 131 – 152. pdf

Carpinella, C. M., Chen, J., Hamilton, D., & Johnson, K. L. (2015). Gendered facial cues influence race categorizations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 405 – 419. pdf

Lick, D. J., Johnson, K. L., & Rule, N. O. (2015). Disfluent processing of nonverbal cues helps to explain anti-bisexual prejudice. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 41, 275 – 288. pdf

Johnson, K. L., Lick, D. J., & Carpinella, C. M. (2015). Emergent research in Social Vision: An integrated approach to the determinants and consequences of social categorization. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9, 15 – 30. pdf

Lick, D. J., Johnson, K. L., & Gill, S. (2014). Why do they have to flaunt it? Perceptions of communicative intent predict antigay prejudice based upon brief exposure to nonverbal cues. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 927 – 935. pdf

Lick, D. J., & Johnson, K. L. (2014). “You can’t tell just by looking!” Beliefs in the diagnosticity of visual cues explain response biases in social categorization. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1494 – 1506. pdf

Lick, D. J., & Johnson, K. L. (2014). Perceptual roots of anti-gay prejudice: Negative evaluations of targets perceived to be lesbian/gay arise early in person perception on the basis of gender atypical visual cues. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1178 – 1192. pdf

Hehman, E., Carpinella, C. M., Johnson, K. L., Leitner, J. B., & Freeman, J. B. (2014). Early processing of gendered facial cues predicts the electoral success of female politicians. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 815 – 824. pdf

Holbrook, C., Galperin, A., Fessler, D. M. T., Johnson, K. L., Bryant, G. A., & Haselton, M. (2014). If looks could kill: Anger judgments are intensified by affordances for doing harm. Emotion, 14, 455 – 461. pdf

Lick, D. J. & Johnson, K. L. (2014). Recalibrating gender perception: Face aftereffects and the perceptual underpinnings of gender-related biases. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1259 – 1276. pdf

Preciado, M. A., & Johnson, K. L. (2014). Perceived consequences of identity-inconsistent sexual experiences: Differences by perceiver gender and sexual identity. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 505 – 518. pdf

Schlosser, T., Dunning, D. A., Johnson, K. L., & Kruger, J. (2013). How unaware are the unskilled? Empirical tests of the “signal extraction” counterexplanation for the Dunning-Kruger effect in self-evaluations of performance. Journal of Economic Psychology, 39, 85 – 100. pdf

Galperin, A., Fessler, D. T., Johnson, K. L., & Haselton, M. G. (2013). Seeing storms behind the clouds: Biases in the attribution of anger. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34, 358 – 365. pdf

Carpinella, C. M., & Johnson, K. L. (2013). Politics of the face: The role of sex-typicality on trait assessments of politicians. Social Cognition, 31, 770 – 779. pdf

Johnson, K. L., & Adams, R. B., Jr. (2013). Social vision: An introduction. Social Cognition, 31, 633 – 635. pdf

Lick, D. J., Johnson, K. L., & Gill, S. V. (2013). Deliberate changes to gendered body motion influence basic social perceptions. Social Cognition, 31, 656 – 671. pdf

Lick, D. J., Durso, L. E., & Johnson, K. L. (2013). Minority stress and physical health in sexual minority communities. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8, 521 – 548. pdf

Lick, D. J., Carpinella, C. M., Preciado, M. A., Spunt, R. P., & Johnson, K. L. (2013). Reverse-correlating mental representations of sex-typed bodies: The effect of number of trials on image quality. Frontiers in Perception Science, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00476. pdf

Lick, D. J., & Johnson, K. L. (2013). Fluency of visual processing explains prejudiced evaluations following categorizations of concealable stigmas. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 419 – 425. pdf

Preciado, M. A., Johnson, K. L., & Peplau, L. A. (2013). The impact of stigma and support on expressions of same-sex sexuality among heterosexual men and women. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 477 – 485. pdf

Carpinella, C. M., & Johnson, K. L. (2013). Appearance-based politics: Sex-typed facial cues communicate political party affiliation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 156 – 160. pdf

Johnson, K. L., Iida, M., & Tassinary, L. G. (2012). Person (mis)perception: Functionally biased sex categorization of bodies. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 279, 4982 – 4989. pdf

Freeman, J. B., Johnson, K. L., Adams, R. B., Jr., & Ambady, N. (2012). The social-sensory interface: Category interactions in person perception. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 8, 1-13. pdf

Johnson, K. L., & Iida, M. (2013). Making great strides: Advances in research on the perception of the human body. In K. L. Johnson & M. Shiffrar (Eds.), People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception (pp. 3 – 10). New York: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, K. L., & Shiffrar, M. (2013). Person (mis)perception: On the functional biases that derail construal of others. In K. L. Johnson & M. Shiffrar (Eds.), People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception (pp. 203 – 219). New York: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, K. L. (2012). A step forward: How utilizing motion capture technology can inform nonverbal communication research. In S. Jones (Ed.), Communication at the Center of the Future (pp. 57 – 75). New York: Hampton Press.

Johnson, K. L., & Carpinella, C. (2012). Social categorization at the crossroads: Mechanisms by which intersecting social categories bias social perception. In J. Forgas, K. Fiedler, & C. Sedikides (Eds.) Social Thinking and Interpersonal Behavior: Proceedings of the 14th Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology (pp. 201 – 220). New York: Psychology Press.

Johnson, K. L., Freeman, J. B., & Pauker, K. (2012) Race is gendered: How covarying phenotypes and stereotypes bias sex categorization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 116 – 131. pdf

Ghavami, N., & Johnson, K. L. (2011). Comparing sexual and ethnic minority perspectives on same-sex marriage. Journal of Social Issues, 67, 394 – 412. pdf

Johnson, K. L., & Ghavami, N. (2011). At the crossroads of conspicuous and concealable: What race categories communicate about sexual orientation. PLoS One, 6, e18025. pdf

Johnson, K. L., McKay, L. S., & Pollick, F. E. (2011). He throws like a girl (but only when he’s sad): Emotion affects sex-decoding of biological motion displays. Cognition. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.01.016 pdf demo

Freeman, J. B., Johnson, K. L., Ambady, N., & Rule, N. (2010). Sexual orientation perception involves gendered facial cues. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1318 – 1331. pdf

Johnson, K. L., Lurye, L. E., & Tassinary, L. G. (2010). Sex categorization among preschool children: Increasing sensitivity to sexually dimorphic cues. Child Development, 81, 1346 – 1355. pdf demo

Johnson, K.L., & Freeman, J.B. (2010). A “New Look” at person construal: Seeing beyond dominance and discreteness. In E. Balcetis & D. Lassiter (Eds.) The Social Psychology of Visual Perception. New York: Psychology Press. pdf

Johnson, K. L., Pollick, F., & McKay, L. (2010). Social constraints on the visual perception of biological motion. In R.B. Adams, N. Ambady, K. Nakayama, & S. Shimojo (Eds.) Social Vision. New York: Oxford University Press. pdf

Johnson, K. L. (in press). Attractiveness. In E. B. Goldstein (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Perception. New York: Sage Publication.

Johnson, K. L. (in press). Motion perception: social. In E. B. Goldstein (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Perception. New York: Sage Publication.

Johnson, K. L. (in press). Social perception. In E. B. Goldstein (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Perception. New York: Sage Publication.

Johnson, K. L. (in press). Person perception. In R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. New York: Sage Publication.

Freeman, J. B., Ambady, N., Rule, N. O., & Johnson, K.L (2008). Will a category cue attract you? Motor output reveals dynamic competition across person construal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 673 – 690. pdf

Johnson, K. L., Lurye, L. E., & Freeman, J. (2008). Gender typicality and extremity in popular culture. In A. Brown & C. Logan. The Psychology of Superheroes. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books. pdf

Johnson, K. L., & Tassinary, L. G. (2007). The functional significance of the WHR in judgments of attractiveness. In V. Swami and A. Furnham (Eds.) Body Beautiful: Evolutionary and Socio-cultural Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillian. pdf

Ehrlinger, J., Johnson, K. L., Banner, M., Dunning, D. A., & Kruger, J. (2008). Why the unskilled are unaware: Further explorations of (absent) self-insight among the incompetent. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 105, 98 – 121. pdf

Johnson, K. L., Gill, S., Reichman, V., & Tassinary, L. G. (2007). Swagger, sway, and sexuality: Judging sexual orientation from body motion and morphology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 321 – 334. pdf demo

Johnson, K. L., & Tassinary, L. G. (2007). Compatibility of basic social perceptions determines perceived attractiveness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104, 5246 – 5251. pdf demo

Johnson, K. L., & Tassinary, L. G. (2005). Perceiving sex directly and indirectly: Meaning in motion and morphology. Psychological Science, 16, 890 – 897. pdf demo

Dunning, D. A., Johnson, K. L., Ehrlinger, J., & Kruger, J. (2003). Why people fail to recognize their own incompetence. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 3, 83 – 87. pdf

Johnson, S. P., Cohen, L., Marks, K., & Johnson, K. L. (2003). Young infants’ perception of object unity in rotation displays. Infancy, 4, 285 – 295.

Johnson, S. P., & Johnson, K. L. (2000). Early perception-action coupling: Eye movements and the development of object perception. Infant Behavior and Development, 23, 461 – 483.

Lawson, K. D. [now K. L. Johnson] (2000). Beyond corporeality: The virtual self in postmodern times. Journal of Psychological Practice, 6, 35 – 43.