Stefan Uddenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1934854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Uddenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Uddenberg |
| SIGNATURE | UDDENBERG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2689-3906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning too much from too little
Face stereotypes are prevalent, consequential, yet oftentimes inaccurate. How do false first impressions arise and persist despite counter-evidence? Building on the overgeneralization hypothesis, we propose a domain-general cognitive mechanism: insufficient statistical learning, or Insta-learn. This mechanism posits that humans are quick statistical learners but insufficient samplers. Humans extract statistical regularities from very few exemplar…
Spontaneous Content of Impressions of Naturalistic Face Photographs
Across two studies (N = 4,526), we characterize a taxonomy of spontaneous face impressions by applying artificial intelligence text analyses to thousands of free-response descriptions of computer-generated faces. The taxonomy codes almost 100% of the impressions into Appearance (including Beauty), Sociability, Morality, Ability, Assertiveness, Emotion, Social Group, socioeconomic Status, Uniqueness, Family, Health, Occupation, Geographic origin, …
Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence
Generative models for visualizing idiosyncratic impressions
In their comprehensive review of research on impressions from faces, Sutherland and Young (this issue) highlight both the remarkable progress and the many challenges facing the field. We focus on two of the challenges: the need for generative, powerful models of impressions and the idiosyncratic nature of complex impressions
Paranoia and belief updating during the Covid-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the world seem less predictable. Such crises can lead people to feel that others are a threat. Here, we show that the initial phase of the pandemic in 2020 increased individuals’ paranoia and made their belief updating more erratic. A proactive lockdown made people’s belief updating less capricious. However, state-mandated mask-wearing increased paranoia and induced more erratic behaviour. This was most evident in s…
Seeing the world through target-tinted glasses
Research shows that positive mood can serve to broaden the scope of attention at both the perceptual and conceptual level (e.g., increasing the size of spatial attentional focus and semantic access to remote associates). We investigated whether this relaxation of attentional filters by positive affect reduces their selectivity for basic visual features. We induced positive, neutral, or negative affect and asked observers to identify a target moti…
Paranoia and belief updating during the Covid-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the world seem less predictable. Such crises can lead people to feel that others are a threat. Here, we show that the initial phase of the pandemic in 2020 increased individuals’ paranoia and made their belief updating more erratic. A proactive lockdown made people’s belief updating less capricious. However, state-mandated mask-wearing increased paranoia and induced more erratic behaviour. This was most evident in s…
Generative models for visualizing idiosyncratic impressions
In their comprehensive review of research on impressions from faces, Sutherland and Young (this issue) highlight both the remarkable progress and the many challenges facing the field. We focus on two of the challenges: the need for generative, powerful models of impressions and the idiosyncratic nature of complex impressions
Seeing the world through target-tinted glasses
Research shows that positive mood can serve to broaden the scope of attention at both the perceptual and conceptual level (e.g., increasing the size of spatial attentional focus and semantic access to remote associates). We investigated whether this relaxation of attentional filters by positive affect reduces their selectivity for basic visual features. We induced positive, neutral, or negative affect and asked observers to identify a target moti…
Paranoia and belief updating during the Covid-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the world seem less predictable. Such crises can lead people to feel that others are a threat. Here, we show that the initial phase of the pandemic in 2020 increased individuals’ paranoia and made their belief updating more erratic. A proactive lockdown made people’s belief updating less capricious. However, state-mandated mask-wearing increased paranoia and induced more erratic behaviour. This was most evident in s…
Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence
Generative models for visualizing idiosyncratic impressions
In their comprehensive review of research on impressions from faces, Sutherland and Young (this issue) highlight both the remarkable progress and the many challenges facing the field. We focus on two of the challenges: the need for generative, powerful models of impressions and the idiosyncratic nature of complex impressions
Learning too much from too little
Face stereotypes are prevalent, consequential, yet oftentimes inaccurate. How do false first impressions arise and persist despite counter-evidence? Building on the overgeneralization hypothesis, we propose a domain-general cognitive mechanism: insufficient statistical learning, or Insta-learn. This mechanism posits that humans are quick statistical learners but insufficient samplers. Humans extract statistical regularities from very few exemplar…
Spontaneous Content of Impressions of Naturalistic Face Photographs
Across two studies (N = 4,526), we characterize a taxonomy of spontaneous face impressions by applying artificial intelligence text analyses to thousands of free-response descriptions of computer-generated faces. The taxonomy codes almost 100% of the impressions into Appearance (including Beauty), Sociability, Morality, Ability, Assertiveness, Emotion, Social Group, socioeconomic Status, Uniqueness, Family, Health, Occupation, Geographic origin, …
Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Face (sociological concept (2 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (2 works) · Perception (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 works)