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UC Los Angeles
November 06, 2025
Crick Conference
Social Sights and Sounds
How do the sights and sounds of other people shape the way we think, feel, and behave? In this talk, I outline a mechanistic framework for understanding social perception as a dynamic interplay between sensory input and social cognition. Drawing from research on faces, bodies, and voices, I suggest that perceivers continuously integrate multiple streams of visual and auditory information with expectations, stereotypes, and goals. This integration process is flexible and context-dependent, and its effects are not always accessible to awareness. I’ll discuss evidence that transient fluctuations in processing fluency and perceptual adaptation can shift category boundaries, recalibrate perceptual norms, and bias evaluations of others—sometimes in ways that precede or bypass explicit categorization. By tracing these perceptual adjustments to broader social outcomes, such as prejudice, threat perception, and bias in professional contexts, I argue that everyday perceptual experience functions as a subtle but powerful mechanism linking individual cognition to systemic bias.
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New York University
December 04, 2025
Crick Conference
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Cornell University
February 12, 2025
Crick Confernece
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New York University
March 05, 2026
Crick Conference
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Indiana University
April 02, 2026
Crick Conference
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John Hopkins University
May 07, 2026
Crick Conference
Anderson Colloquium Speaker Series
Thursdays, 11:00 am
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