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  1. The Effect of Medical Face Masks on First Impressions Across Race and Time: Testing Social and Perceptual Explanations

    Article • Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, May 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  2. Dataset of standardized full-body video stimuli featuring Central European women and men: Attractiveness of Fitness Project

    Article • March 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  3. The Social Perception of Social Class: An Integrative Review

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, March 2025, Wiley

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  4. Consistent Facial Cues to Social Class Across Two Different Western Contexts

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, March 2025, Wiley

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  5. How much femininity/masculinity people find attractive depends on their sexual orientation & culture

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  6. Exploring the Relations Among Knowledge, Contact, and Transgender Prejudice

    Article • Sex Roles, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  7. Do faces or bodies matter more for first impressions?

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, June 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  8. Unity in diversity: Exploring the effect of oneness with humanity on the willingness to donate to Syrian and Ukrainian refugees

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, May 2024, Elsevier

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  9. Stereotypes bias social class perception from faces: The roles of race, gender, affect, and attractiveness

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, February 2024, SAGE Publications

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  10. People make judgments of social class from faces using features that are related to stereotypes

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  11. ‘Are they refugees or economic migrants?’ The effect of asylum seekers' motivation to migrate on intentions to help them

    Article • Journal of Applied Social Psychology, June 2023, Wiley

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  12. Consensus Enables Accurate Social Judgments

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, October 2021, SAGE Publications

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  13. Beyond categories: Perceiving sexual attraction from faces

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, July 2021, Wiley

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  14. Parsing the Mechanisms Underlying Ingroup Facial Resemblance

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2021, SAGE Publications

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  15. Perceiving acculturation from neutral and emotional faces.

    Article • Emotion, June 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  16. Social trait perception is structured by a latent composition of 3D face features

    Article • Journal of Vision, October 2020, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  17. Psychologically Valid Social Face Features for Virtual Agents

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir, Yuening Yan

  18. Emotion and Gender Typicality Cue Sexual Orientation Differently in Women and Men

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  19. Negative emotion and perceived social class.

    Article • Emotion, June 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  20. When words become borders: Ingroup favoritism in perceptions and mental representations of Anglo-Canadian and Franco-Canadian faces

    Article • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  21. Cultural Neuroscience

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  22. Cultural differences in perceiving and processing emotions: a holistic approach to person perception

    Article • Culture and Brain, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  23. The visibility of social class from facial cues.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, October 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  24. Emotional Expressions Support the Communication of Social Groups: A Pragmatic Extension of Affective Pragmatics

    Article • Psychological Inquiry, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  25. The Perceptive Proletarian: Subjective Social Class Predicts Interpersonal Accuracy

    Article • Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  26. Subtle perceptions of male sexual orientation influence occupational opportunities.

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, December 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  27. On the relationship between acculturation and intercultural understanding: Insight from the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test

    Article • International Journal of Intercultural Relations, May 2016, Elsevier

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir