The contributors to this collection focus on the cognitive processes that take place during the initial acquisition of information about others (on-line process

What are other people like? How do we decide if someone is friendly, honest or clever? What assumptions do we develop about them and what explanations do we giv

The contributors to this collection focus on the cognitive processes that take place during the initial acquisition of information about others (on-line process

The essays range across fields foundational to cognitive science, including perception, attention, memory, and language, using formal, experimental, and neurosc

As the general notion of cognition has recently broadened to include its embodied nature, researchers' accounts of perception have increasingly come to include