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Nicholas O. Rule

Nicholas O. Rule

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Psychology

D-Index
54
Citations
11201
World Ranking
4597
National Ranking
308

Overview

Nicholas O. Rule is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their primary research contributions lie within the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, and Social Psychology.

Their work explores a range of topics, prominently featuring Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies, Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification, Cultural Differences and Values, and Personality Traits and Psychology.

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Rule demonstrate the scope of their research interests. These include:

  • "Common Academic Experiences No One Talks About: Repeated Rejection, Impostor Syndrome, and Burnout" (2020), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Gender stereotypes explain different mental prototypes of male and female leaders" (2021), published in The Leadership Quarterly
  • "Emotion and Gender Typicality Cue Sexual Orientation Differently in Women and Men" (2020), published in Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • "People attribute humanness to men and women differently based on their facial appearance." (2021), published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "How static facial cues relate to real-world leaders' success: a review and meta-analysis" (2020), published in European Review of Social Psychology

Rule frequently publishes in several notable academic journals, including:

  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Emotion
  • Journal of Personality

Collaboration has been a significant aspect of Rule's academic activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • R. Thora Bjornsdottir
  • Ravin Alaei
  • Emily Schwartzman
  • Miranda Giacomin
  • Laura Tian

Their scholarly output primarily focuses on experimental and cognitive approaches within psychology and extends to social and political sciences, reflecting a multidimensional research profile. This combination supports investigations into psychological phenomena ranging from human behavior and social perception to emotional judgment and cultural values.

Best Publications

  • Many Labs 3: Evaluating participant pool quality across the academic semester via replication

    Charles R. Ebersole;Olivia E. Atherton;Aimee L. Belanger;Hayley M. Skulborstad

  • Cross-cultural reading the mind in the eyes: An fmri investigation

    Reginald B. Adams;Nicholas O. Rule;Robert G. Franklin;Elsie Wang

  • The Face of Success: Inferences From Chief Executive Officers' Appearance Predict Company Profits

    Nicholas O. Rule;Nalini Ambady

  • Racial bias in judgments of physical size and formidability: from size to threat

    John Paul Wilson;Kurt Hugenberg;Nicholas O. Rule

  • The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology through a Distributed Collaborative Network

    Hannah Moshontz;Lorne Campbell;Charles R. Ebersole;Hans Ijzerman

  • Facial Trustworthiness Predicts Extreme Criminal-Sentencing Outcomes

    John Paul Wilson;Nicholas O. Rule

  • Brief exposures: Male sexual orientation is accurately perceived at 50 ms

    Nicholas O. Rule;Nalini Ambady

  • The Politics of Fear: Is There an Ideological Asymmetry in Existential Motivation?

    John T. Jost;Chadly Stern;Nicholas O. Rule;Joanna Sterling

  • Accuracy and consensus in judgments of trustworthiness from faces: behavioral and neural correlates.

    Nicholas O. Rule;Anne C. Krendl;Zorana Ivcevic;Nalini Ambady

  • Accuracy and awareness in the perception and categorization of male sexual orientation.

    Nicholas O. Rule;Nalini Ambady;Reginald B. Adams Jr.;C. Neil Macrae

  • 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

  • Polling the Face: Prediction and Consensus Across Cultures

    Nicholas O. Rule;Nalini Ambady;Reginald B. Adams;Hiroki Ozono

  • Female sexual orientation is perceived accurately, rapidly, and automatically from the face and its features

    Nicholas O. Rule;Nalini Ambady;Katherine C. Hallett

  • Sexual Orientation Perception Involves Gendered Facial Cues

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

  • Democrats and Republicans Can Be Differentiated from Their Faces

    Nicholas O. Rule;Nalini Ambady

  • To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?

    Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine;Jessica K. Flake;Marco Tullio Liuzza

  • The visibility of social class from facial cues.

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir;Nicholas O. Rule

  • Accuracy in Categorizing Perceptually Ambiguous Groups: A Review and Meta-Analysis

    Konstantin O. Tskhay;Nicholas O. Rule

  • She’s Got the Look: Inferences from Female Chief Executive Officers’ Faces Predict their Success

    Nicholas O. Rule;Nalini Ambady

  • Culture shapes a mesolimbic response to signals of dominance and subordination that associates with behavior

    Jonathan B. Freeman;Nicholas O. Rule;Reginald B. Adams;Nalini Ambady

Frequent Co-Authors

Nalini Ambady
Nalini Ambady Stanford University
Reginald B. Adams
Reginald B. Adams Pennsylvania State University
Kerri L. Johnson
Kerri L. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
Sakiko Yoshikawa
Sakiko Yoshikawa Kyoto University
Tessa V. West
Tessa V. West New York University
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Benedict C. Jones
Benedict C. Jones University of Strathclyde
Miguel A. Vadillo
Miguel A. Vadillo Autonomous University of Madrid
Heather L. Urry
Heather L. Urry Tufts University
C. Neil Macrae
C. Neil Macrae University of Aberdeen

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