Professor Scott Plous

Social Psychology Wesleyan University

FURTHER READINGS AND VIEWINGS

Lecture 1.7: Thin Slices: Social Judgments in the Blink of an Eye

Works Cited or Referred To

(1) Ambady, N., Koo, J., Rosenthal, R., & Winograd, C. H. (2002). Physical therapists'
nonverbal communication predicts geriatric patients' health outcomes .Psychology and
Aging, 17(3), 443-452.

(2) Ambady, N., Krabbenhoft, M. A., & Hogan, D. (2006). The 30-sec sale: Using thin-slice
judgments to evaluate sales effectiveness. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 16(1), 4-13.

(3) Ambady, N., LaPlante, D., Nguyen, T., Rosenthal, R., Chaumeton, N., & Levinson, W.
(2002). Surgeons' tone of voice: A clue to malpractice history. Surgery, 132(1), 5-9.

(4) Ambady, N., & Rosenthal, R. (1992). Thin slices of expressive behavior as predictors of
interpersonal consequences: A meta-analysis. Psychological bulletin, 111(2), 256-274.

(5) Ambady, N., & Rosenthal, R. (1993). Half a minute: Predicting teacher evaluations from
thin slices of behavior and physical attractiveness. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 64, 431-441.

(6) Ballew, C. C., & Todorov, A. (2007). Predicting political elections from rapid and
unreflective face judgments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(46),
17948-17953.

(7) Carrére, S., & Gottman, J. M. (1999). Predicting divorce among newlyweds from the
first three minutes of a marital conflict discussion. Family Process, 38(3), 293-301.

(8) Gladwell, M. (2007). Blink: The power of thinking without thinking. New York: Back
Bay Books.

(9) Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N. (2008). Brief exposures: Male sexual orientation is
accurately perceived at 50ms. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(4), 1100-
1105.

(10) Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N. (2011). Judgments of power from college yearbook photos
and later career success. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 154-158.

(11) Spezio, M. L., Loesch, L., Gosselin, F., Mattes, K., & Alvarez, R. M. (2012). Thin-slice
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Related Wikipedia Entries

(1) Thin-Slicing: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_slicing

Social Psychologists and Other Researchers Mentioned

(1) Nalini Ambady: http://ambady.socialpsychology.org/

(2) John Gottman: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gottman

(3) Robert Rosenthal: http://rosenthal.socialpsychology.org/

(4) Nicholas Rule: http://rule.socialpsychology.org/

(5) Alex Todorov: http://todorov.socialpsychology.org/