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Title

Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations

Degree

Ph.D., Yale University

Field of Specialty

Social psychology; face perception; facial stereotypes (babyfaceness, attractiveness); age and gender stereotypes.

Contact Information

Brown 116
781-736-3263
zebrowit@brandeis.edu

Leslie A Zebrowitz

Research concerns how and why people's physical qualities, such as facial appearance, influence impressions of their traits as well as the impact of such impressions on people's social outcomes and psychological development.

Publications

Hemmesch, A., Tickle-Degnan, L., & Zebrowitz, L.A.. "The Influence of Facial Masking and Sex on Older Adults' Impressions of Individuals with Parkinson's Disease." Psychology and Aging 24. 3 (2009): 542–549.

Liang, X., Zebrowitz, L. A., & Aharon, I.. "Effective connectivity between amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex differentiates the perception of facial expressions." Social Neuroscience 4. (2009): 185-196.

Zebrowitz, Leslie A., Luevano, V.X., Bronstad, P.M., & Aharon, I.. "Neural Activation to Babyfaced Men Matches Activation to Babies." Journal of Social Neuroscience 4. (2009): 1-10.

Zebrowitz, Leslie A., & Montepare, J.M.. "First Impressions from Facial Appearance Cues." First Impressions. Ed. N. Ambady and J. Skowronski. New York: Guilford Publications, Inc., 2008. 171-204.

Zebrowitz, Leslie A., Weineke, K., & White, B. "Mere exposure and racial prejudice: Exposure to other-race faces increases liking for strangers of that race." Social Cognition 26. (2008): 259-275.

Zebrowitz, Leslie A./ Montepare, J.M.. "Social psychological face perception: Why appearance matters." Social and Personality Psychology Compass 2. (2008): 1497-1517.

Luevano, V.X., & Zebrowitz, L.A.. "Do impressions of health, dominance, and warmth explain why masculine faces are preferred more in a short-term mate?." Evolutionary Psychology 5. (2007): 15-27.

Luevano, V.X., Zebrowitz, Leslie A. "Do impressions of health, dominance, and warmth explain why masculine faces are preferred more in a short-term mate?." Evolutionary Psychology 5. (2007): 15-27.

Zebrowitz, Leslie A, Bronstad, P.M., & Lee, H.K.. "The contribution of face familiarity to ingroup favoritism and stereotyping." Social Cognition 25. (2007): 306-338.

Zebrowitz, Leslie A., Kikuchi, M., & Fellous, J.M.. "Are Effects of Emotion Expression on Trait Impressions Mediated by Babyfaceness? Evidence from Connectionist Modeling." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 33. (2007): 648-662.

Zebrowitz, Leslie A. "Finally faces find favor." Social Cognition 24. (2006): 657-701.

Zebrowitz,Leslie A. "The Ecological Approach to Person Perception: Evolutionary Roots and Contemporary Offshoots." Evolution and Social Psychology. Ed. M. Schaller, J.A. Simpson, & D.T. Kenrick. New York: Psychology Press, 2006. pp. 81-113.

Zebrowitz,Leslie A. with J.M Montepare. "Appearance DOES matter." Science 308. (2005): 1565.

Zebrowitz, L. A. & Rhodes, G.. "Sensitivity to 'bad genes' and the anomalous face overgeneralization effect: Accuracy, cue validity, and cue utilization in judging intelligence and health." Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 28. (2004): 167-186.

Zebrowitz,Leslie A. "The origins of the first impression." Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology (2004): 93-108.

Rhodes, G., Chan, J., Zebrowitz, L.A., & Simmons, L.W.. "Does sexual dimorphism in human faces signal health?." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B (Suppl.) 270. (2003): S93-95..

Zebrowitz,Leslie A., Fellous, J.M., Mignault, A., & Andreoletti, C.. "Trait Impressions as Overgeneralized Responses to Adaptively Significant Facial Qualities: Evidence from Connectionist Modeling." Personality and Social Psychology Review 7. (2003): 194-215..

Rhodes, G. and Zebrowitz, L. A., ed. Facial Attractiveness: Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Social Perspectives. Westport, CT:: Ablex, 2002.

Zebrowitz, L. A. and Rhodes, G.. "Nature let a hundred flowers bloom: The multiple ways and wherefores of attractiveness." Facial Attractiveness: Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Social Perspectives. Westport, CT: Ablex, 2002

Zebrowitz, L. A., Hall, J.A., Murphy, N.A., & Rhodes, G.. "Looking smart and looking good: Facial cues to intelligence and their origins." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 28. (2002): 238-249.

Zebrowitz,Leslie A. withJ.M. Montepare. "A social-developmental view of ageism." Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Older Persons. Ed. T. Nelson.. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002

Andreoletti, C., Zebrowitz, L.A., & Lachman, M.E. (2001).. "Physical appearance and control beliefs in young, middle-aged, and older adults." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 27. (2001): 969-981.

Rhodes, G., Zebrowitz, L.A., Clark, A., Kalick, S.M., Hightower, A., & McKay, R.. "Do facial averageness and symmetry signal health?." Evolution and Human Behavior 22. (2001): 31-46.

Zebrowitz, L.A., & Montepare, J.M.. "Integrating social psychology and aging research: Toward a social-developmental theory of behavior." Basic and Applied Social Psychology 22. (2000): 257-260.

Kalick, S.M., Zebrowitz, L.A., Langlois, J.H., & Johnson, R.M.. "Does human facial attractiveness honestly advertise health? Longitudinal data on an evolutionary question." Psychological Science 9. (1998): 8-13.

Montepare , J.M. and Zebrowitz,L. A.. "Person perception comes of age: The salience and significance of age in social judgments." Advances in Experimental Social Psychology Vol. 30. (1998): 93-163.

Zebrowitz, L.A., Collins, M.A., & Dutta, R. (1998). "Appearance and personality across the lifespan." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 24. (1998): 736-749.

Zebrowitz,L. A , Andreoletti, C. ,Collins, M.A. Lee, S.Y. & Blumenthal, J.. "Bright, bad, babyfaced boys: Appearance stereotypes do not always yield self-fulfilling prophecy effects." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 75. (1998): 1300-1320.

Zebrowitz,Leslie A & M.A. Collins. "Accurate social perception at zero acquaintance: The affordances of a Gibsonian approach." Personality and Social Psychology Review 1. (1997): 203-222.

Zebrowitz,Leslie A. Reading Faces: Window to the Soul?. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (translated into Japanese), 1997.

Zebrowitz, L.A., Voinescu, L., & Collins, M.A.. "Wide eyed’ and ‘crooked-faced’: Determinants of perceived and real honesty across the life span." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 22. (1996): 1258-1269.

Collins, M. & Zebrowitz, L.A.. "The contributions of appearance to occupational outcomes in civilian and military settings." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 25. (1995): 129-163.

Kramer, S., Zebrowitz, L.A., San Giovanni, J.P., & Sherak, B.. "Infants' preferences for attractiveness and babyfaceness." Studies in Perception and Action III. Ed. B.G. Bardy, R.J. Bootsma, & Y. Guiard. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1995. pp. 389-392.

Zebrowitz, L.A., Montepare, J.M., & Lee, H.K.. "They don't all look alike: Differentiating same versus other race individuals." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 65,. (1993): 85-101..

Zebrowitz, L.A., Olson, K., & Hoffman, K.. "Stability of babyfaceness and attractiveness across the lifespan." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 64. (1993): 453-466.

Friedman, H. and Zebrowitz,L. A.. "The contribution of facial maturity to sex-role stereotypes." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 18. (1992): 430-438.

Zebrowitz, L.A., Tenenbaum, D.R., & Goldstein, L.H.. "The impact of job applicants' facial maturity, sex, and academic achievement on hiring recommendations." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 21. (1991): 525-548.

Zebrowitz,Leslie A. with S. McDonald. "The impact of litigants' babyfacedness and attractiveness on adjudications in small claims courts." Law and Human Behavior 15. (1991): 603-623.

Zebrowitz,Leslie A. Social Perception. Buckingham, England: Open University Press., 1990.

Zebrowitz,L. A. and Baron, R.M.. "Toward an ecological theory of social perception." Psychological Review 90. (1983): 215-238.

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