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  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

James S. Uleman is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily spans psychology, with a focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, and the visual and performing arts.

Their work encompasses several main topics including cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, creativity in education and neuroscience, art education and development, and language, metaphor, and cognition.

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • Attention allocation is a possible mediator of cultural variations in spontaneous trait and situation inferences: Eye-tracking evidence (2021) - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • The Cross-Cultural Interplay of Visual Attention and Artistic Design in Comics: Insights From Eye-Tracking Evidence on American and Japanese Readers (2025) - Cognitive Science

Frequent coauthors of James S. Uleman include:

  • Yuki Shimizu
  • Motohiro Kozawa
  • Keiichi Watanuki
  • Honami Arihara

Their research contributions have appeared primarily in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Cognitive Science.

James S. Uleman has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1994.

Best Publications

  • The new unconscious.

    Ran R. Hassin;James S. Uleman;John A. Bargh

  • When are social judgments made? Evidence for the spontaneousness of trait inferences

    Laraine Winter;James S. Uleman

  • Spontaneous self-descriptions and ethnic identities in individualistic and collectivistic cultures.

    Eun Rhee;James S. Uleman;Hoon K. Lee;Robert J. Roman

  • People as Flexible Interpreters: Evidence and Issues from Spontaneous Trait Inference

    James S. Uleman;Leonard S. Newman;Gordon B. Moskowitz

  • Spontaneous Inferences, Implicit Impressions, and Implicit Theories

    James S. Uleman;S. Adil Saribay;Celia M. Gonzalez

  • Variations in Collectivism and Individualism by Ingroup and Culture: Confirmatory Factor Analyses

    Eun Rhee;James S. Uleman;Hoon Koo Lee

  • Spontaneous trait inferences are bound to actors' faces: evidence from a false recognition paradigm.

    Alexander T. Todorov;James S. Uleman

  • The efficiency of binding spontaneous trait inferences to actors’ faces

    Alexander T. Todorov;James S. Uleman

  • Consciousness and Control The Case of Spontaneous Trait Inferences

    James S. Uleman

  • A neural mechanism of first impressions

    Daniela Schiller;Daniela Schiller;Jonathan B Freeman;Jonathan B Freeman;Jason P Mitchell;James S Uleman

  • Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Spontaneous Trait Inference

    Leonard S. Newman;James S. Uleman

  • On-Line Evidence for Spontaneous Trait Inferences at Encoding

    James S. Uleman;Alex Hon;Robert J. Roman;Gordon B. Moskowitz

  • Spontaneous trait inference and construal level theory: Psychological distance increases nonconscious trait thinking.

    SoYon Rim;James S. Uleman;Yaacov Trope

  • The person reference process in spontaneous trait inferences.

    Alexander T. Todorov;James S. Uleman

  • How automatic are social judgments

    Laraine Winter;James S. Uleman;Cathryn Cunniff

  • The relational self: Closeness to ingroups depends on who they are, culture, and the type of closeness

    James S. Uleman;Eun Rhee;Nenshad Bardoliwalla;Gün Semin

  • Spontaneous trait inference.

    Leonard S. Newman;James S. Uleman

  • Unintended effects of goals on unintended inferences.

    James S. Uleman;Gordon B. Moskowitz

  • Variations in collectivism and individualism by ingroup and culture: Confirmatory factor analysis.

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  • Spontaneous versus intentional inferences in impression formation

    James S. Uleman

  • EFFECTS OF CULTURE AND PROCESSING GOALS ON THE ACTIVATION AND BINDING OF TRAIT CONCEPTS

    Michael A. Zárate;James S. Uleman;Corrine I. Voils

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University
John A. Bargh
John A. Bargh Yale University
Ran R. Hassin
Ran R. Hassin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gordon B. Moskowitz
Gordon B. Moskowitz Lehigh University
Alexander Todorov
Alexander Todorov University of Chicago
Daniela Schiller
Daniela Schiller Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Tobias Brosch
Tobias Brosch University of Geneva
Daniel M. Wegner
Daniel M. Wegner Harvard University
Jason P. Mitchell
Jason P. Mitchell Harvard University
Gifford Weary
Gifford Weary The Ohio State University

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