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Kerri L. Johnson is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior and cognition.

The main fields of study for Kerri L. Johnson include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Neuroscience

Within these broad areas, subfields of study focus on:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Their work also covers a range of specific topics such as:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Reproductive Biology and Fertility
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Cultural Differences and Values

Kerri L. Johnson has published research articles in several academic venues. The frequent publication venues are:

  • Fertility & Reproduction
  • Health Psychology
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Johnson include:

  • "Current health care experiences, medical trust, and COVID-19 vaccination intention and uptake in Black and White Americans," 2022, Health Psychology
  • "The straight categorization bias: A motivated and altruistic reasoning account," 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "The Face of Social Networks: Naive Observers' Accurate Assessment of Others' Social Network Positions From Faces," 2021, Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • "Ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity differentiates sick from healthy faces: Associations with inflammatory responses and disease avoidance motivation," 2021, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • "You can't dismantle what you don't recognize: The effect of learning critical Black history in healthcare on perspective-taking," 2023, Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Frequent collaborators in Johnson's research include:

  • Nicholas P. Alt
  • Kelli Sorby
  • Kurt Hugenberg
  • Kimberly J. Martin
  • David J. Lick

Best Publications

  • Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence

    David Dunning;Kerri Johnson;Joyce Ehrlinger;Justin Kruger

  • Minority Stress and Physical Health Among Sexual Minorities

    David J. Lick;Laura E. Durso;Kerri L. Johnson

  • Why the Unskilled Are Unaware: Further Explorations of (Absent) Self-Insight Among the Incompetent

    Joyce Ehrlinger;Kerri Johnson;Matthew Banner;David Dunning

  • Race is gendered: How covarying phenotypes and stereotypes bias sex categorization.

    Kerri L. Johnson;Jonathan B. Freeman;Kristin Pauker

  • Swagger, sway, and sexuality: Judging sexual orientation from body motion and morphology.

    Kerri L. Johnson;Simone Gill;Victoria Reichman;Louis G. Tassinary

  • How unaware are the unskilled? Empirical tests of the “signal extraction” counterexplanation for the Dunning–Kruger effect in self-evaluation of performance

    Thomas Schlösser;David Dunning;Kerri L. Johnson;Justin Kruger

  • Will a category cue attract you? Motor output reveals dynamic competition across person construal.

    Jonathan B. Freeman;Nalini Ambady;Nicholas O. Rule;Kerri L. Johnson

  • More Than Meets the Eye: Split-Second Social Perception

    Jonathan B. Freeman;Kerri L. Johnson

  • Sexual Orientation Perception Involves Gendered Facial Cues

    Jonathan B. Freeman;Kerri L. Johnson;Nalini Ambady;Nicholas O. Rule

  • Perceiving Sex Directly and Indirectly Meaning in Motion and Morphology

    Kerri L. Johnson;Louis G. Tassinary

  • Early Processing of Gendered Facial Cues Predicts the Electoral Success of Female Politicians

    Eric Hehman;Colleen M. Carpinella;Kerri L. Johnson;Jordan B. Leitner

  • Compatibility of basic social perceptions determines perceived attractiveness

    Kerri L. Johnson;Louis G. Tassinary

  • At the Crossroads of Conspicuous and Concealable: What Race Categories Communicate about Sexual Orientation

    Kerri L. Johnson;Negin Ghavami

  • He throws like a girl (but only when he’s sad): Emotion affects sex-decoding of biological motion displays

    Kerri L. Johnson;Lawrie S. McKay;Frank E. Pollick

  • Person (mis)perception: functionally biased sex categorization of bodies

    Kerri L. Johnson;Masumi Iida;Louis G. Tassinary

  • The Interpersonal Consequences of Processing Ease Fluency as a Metacognitive Foundation for Prejudice

    David J. Lick;Kerri L. Johnson

  • Appearance-based politics: Sex-typed facial cues communicate political party affiliation ☆

    Colleen M. Carpinella;Kerri L. Johnson

  • Gendered Facial Cues Influence Race Categorizations

    Colleen M. Carpinella;Jacqueline M. Chen;David L. Hamilton;Kerri L. Johnson

  • The Gendered Face of Partisan Politics: Consequences of Facial Sex Typicality for Vote Choice

    Colleen M. Carpinella;Eric Hehman;Jonathan B. Freeman;Kerri L. Johnson

  • Straight until proven gay: A systematic bias toward straight categorizations in sexual orientation judgments.

    David J. Lick;Kerri L. Johnson

  • People watching: Social, perceptual, and neurophysiological studies of body perception.

    Kerri L. Johnson;Maggie Shiffrar

  • Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children

    John Briere;Kerri Johnson;Angela Bissada;Linda Damon

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott P. Johnson
Scott P. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
Nicholas O. Rule
Nicholas O. Rule University of Toronto
David Dunning
David Dunning University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nalini Ambady
Nalini Ambady Stanford University
Daniel M. T. Fessler
Daniel M. T. Fessler University of California, Los Angeles
Martie G. Haselton
Martie G. Haselton University of California, Los Angeles
Maggie Shiffrar
Maggie Shiffrar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Reginald B. Adams
Reginald B. Adams Pennsylvania State University
Eric Hehman
Eric Hehman McGill University
Frank E. Pollick
Frank E. Pollick University of Glasgow

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