Judging a Book By its Cover

The Neural Architecture of Trustworthiness Judgments: Judging a Book by its Cover and Content

JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS COVER The Deployment (and) Unsettling of Familial Images on Family Law Textbook Covers

An individual s legal identity can be constituted by a multitude of often-complex notions, and is not necessarily of their own construction. Legal discourse has a significant role to play in the construction of an individual s legal identity and can apply to gender identity as much as any other. This construction can occur not just through what is written or said, but also by and through the im...

Judging a book by its cover: the unconscious influence of pupil size on consumer choice.

Past research suggests that men perceive women with large pupils as especially attractive. We employed an innovative methodology to examine whether this effect influences consumer decision-making. A popular psychology book was published with two slightly different front covers. Both covers contained the same photograph of a woman; however, the woman's pupils on one cover were digitally enlarged...

Judging a book by its cover and its contents: the representation of polysemous and homophonous meanings in four-year-old children.

Unlike homophonous meanings, which are semantically unrelated (e.g., the use of bat to refer to a baseball bat and a flying rodent), polysemous meanings are systematically related to one another (e.g., the use of book, CD, and video to refer to physical objects, as in 'the leather book', or to the intellectual content they contain, as in 'the profound book'). But do perceived relations among po...

Judging a book by its cover: Jealousy after subliminal priming with attractive and unattractive faces

The present paper focuses on the effect a rival’s facial attractiveness has on female jealousy. A parafoveal subliminal priming paradigm was employed to expose participants to rivals outside their conscious awareness. Female participants were exposed to either an attractive woman or an unattractive woman for 60 ms. They subsequently read a jealousy-evoking scenario which introduced a rival, but...