Face recognition ability
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Prosopagnosia
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Emotion and cooperation
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Feeling comes first
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Empathy
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Recognizing emotions in faces
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Nuances of emotions and emotion recognition
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Taste recognition is nuanced
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Colors, basic and crayons
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Emotion appraisal depends on context and culture
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Kuleshov effect
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Mind in the eye
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Eyes dominate mouths in interpreting emotion
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Rapid judgments of trust in faces predict elections outcomes
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Emotion inferred from bodies
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Recognizing action from bodies
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Recognizing intention from gaze
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Eye gaze in event understanding
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Understanding intention by infants
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Places of places in the brain
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Categories of scenes
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Scene recognition is excellent
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Change blindness
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Categories and features
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Biological evolution
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Correcting misconceptions in knowledge about the world
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Scenes, actions, and events
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Hypotheses override perception
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Biased perception
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Confirmation bias
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Confirmation bias quote
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What is true for perception is true for all thought
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Feynman on visual thinking
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CHAPTER THREE: HERE AND NOW AND THERE AND THEN: THE SPACES AROUND US
Spatial Frameworks
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Imagining others’ perspectives
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Franklin, N., Tversky, B., & Coon, V. (1992). Switching points of view in spatial mental models. Memory & Cognition, 20(5), 507–518.
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Remembering instead of looking
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When taking another’s perspective is easier than taking one’s own
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