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Cloutier

Biography

Jasmin Cloutier joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2010 as an Assistant Professor in Psychology.  He previously was a postdoctoral associate at Tufts University and M.I.T. (2008-2010), and received his PhD in Psychology and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College (2003-2008). His work focuses on various aspects of person perception, using the methods and perspectives of social cognition and social neuroscience.

Research Interests

  • Social categorization and stereotyping from faces
  • The neural substrates of person perception
  • The influence of context and person-knowledge on person perception

Selected Publications

Cloutier, J., Kelley, W. M., & Heatherton, T. F. (In Press). The Influence of Perceptual and Knowledge-based Familiarity on the Neural Substrates of Face Perception. Social Neuroscience.

Cloutier, J., Heatherton, T.F., Whalen, P.J., & Kelley, W.M. (2008). Are attractive people rewarding? Sex differences in the neural substrates of facial attractiveness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 941-951.

Cloutier, J., Turk, D., & Macrae, C. N. (2008). Extracting information from faces: The neural substrates of gaze detection and sex categorization. Social Neuroscience, 3, 69-78.   

Cloutier, J., & Macrae, C. N. (2007). Who or what are you?: Facial orientation and person construal. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 1298-1309.

Cloutier, J., Mason, M. F., & Macrae, C. N. (2005). The perceptual determinants of person construal: Reopening the social-cognitive toolbox. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 885-894.

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