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Reginald B. Adams is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and conducts research primarily in psychology and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The scientist's research focuses on key topics such as face recognition and perception, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, social and intergroup psychology, aesthetic perception and analysis, cultural differences and values, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and visual attention and saliency detection.

Recent publications by Reginald B. Adams include the following:

  • Unlocking the Emotional World of Visual Media: An Overview of the Science, Research, and Impact of Understanding Emotion (2023), Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Emotion Residue in Neutral Faces: Implications for Impression Formation (2020), Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • The effect of gender identity and gender threat on self-image (2022), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Everyday Beliefs About Emotion Perceptually Derived From Neutral Facial Appearance (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
  • Feminist Social Vision: Seeing Through the Lens of Marginalized Perceivers (2022), Personality and Social Psychology Review

Reginald B. Adams frequently publishes in venues such as Affective Science, Frontiers in Psychology, Proceedings of the IEEE, Social Psychological and Personality Science, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

The scientist collaborates often with several co-authors, including Daniel N. Albohn, Joseph C. Brandenburg, Ursula Heß, Flora Oswald, and Troy G. Steiner.

Best Publications

  • Investigating variation in replicability: A “Many Labs” replication project

    Richard A. Klein;Kate A. Ratliff;Michelangelo Vianello;Reginald B. Adams

  • Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings

    Richard A. Klein;Michelangelo Vianello;Fred Hasselman;Byron G. Adams

  • Effects of direct and averted gaze on the perception of facially communicated emotion.

    Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

  • Perceived Gaze Direction and the Processing of Facial Displays of Emotion

    Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

  • Effects of gaze on amygdala sensitivity to anger and fear faces

    Reginald B. Adams;Reginald B. Adams;Heather L. Gordon;Abigail A. Baird;Nalini Ambady

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

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

  • Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind

    Matthew M. Hurley;Daniel Clement Dennett;Reginald B. Adams

  • Registered Replication Report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper (1988)

    E. J. Wagenmakers;Titia Beek;Laura Dijkhoff;Quentin F. Gronau

  • Who may frown and who should smile? Dominance, affiliation, and the display of happiness and anger

    Ursula Hess;Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

  • Emotional expressions forecast approach-avoidance behavior.

    Reginald B. Adams;Nalini Ambady;C. Neil Macrae;Robert E. Kleck

  • Facial Appearance, Gender, and Emotion Expression.

    Ursula Hess;Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

  • Neural correlates of humor detection and appreciation.

    Joseph M Moran;Gagan S Wig;Reginald B Adams;Petr Janata

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

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

  • Why Do Fear and Anger Look the Way They Do? Form and Social Function in Facial Expressions

    Abigail A. Marsh;Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

  • Face gender and emotion expression: are angry women more like men?

    Ursula Hess;Reginald B. Adams;Karl Grammer;Robert E. Kleck

  • Polling the Face: Prediction and Consensus Across Cultures

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

  • Not so black and white: memory for ambiguous group members.

    Kristin Pauker;Max Weisbuch;Nalini Ambady;Samuel R. Sommers

  • Taking a “Peak” at Leisure Travelers’ Positive Emotions

    Ondrej Mitas;Careen Yarnal;Reginald Adams;Nilam Ram

  • On shape and the computability of emotions

    Xin Lu;Poonam Suryanarayan;Reginald B. Adams;Jia Li

  • 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
Robert E. Kleck
Robert E. Kleck Dartmouth College
Ursula Hess
Ursula Hess Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Nicholas O. Rule
Nicholas O. Rule University of Toronto
Michelle G. Newman
Michelle G. Newman Pennsylvania State University
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Sakiko Yoshikawa
Sakiko Yoshikawa Kyoto University
Moshe Bar
Moshe Bar Bar-Ilan University
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
C. Neil Macrae
C. Neil Macrae University of Aberdeen

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