Richard Cook

Biographic Data

ID3597679
NAMERichard Cook
GIVEN NAMESRichard
FAMILY NAMECook
SIGNATURECOOK R
AFFILIATIONSBirkbeck, University of London
ORCID0000-0003-2370-3086
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Understanding the role of cultural learning in the emergence of first impressions from facial appearance

    Harriet Over, Richard Cook et al.ARTICLEEuropean Review of Social…2026References: 19

  • Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen. By Jifeng Liu

    Open AccessRichard I Cook, Richard CookARTICLEJournal of Church and State2024

    Journal Article Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen. By Jifeng Liu Get access Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen. By Jifeng Liu. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. 199pp. $119.95. Richard Cook Richard Cook Logos Evangelical Seminary, El Monte, California Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…

  • Crafting a 'senseplace: The Touch, Sound and Smell of Graffiti

    Robert Cook, Richard CookARTICLEThe Senses and Society2024References: 60

    This article explores the senses of touch, sound and smell through the craft work of subcultural graffiti to develop a new understanding of place. It draws from ethnographic data collected from 18 months of research edgework involving active participation in the field. Firstly, it positions graffiti as craft work involving practice, skilled use of tools, insightful judgments and use of the body. Secondly, because graffiti can provoke strong pract…

  • Recognition of animal faces is impaired in developmental prosopagnosia

    Open AccessGabriela Epihova, Richard Cook et al.ARTICLECognition2023

    An on-going debate in psychology and neuroscience concerns the way faces and objects are represented. Domain-specific theories suggest that faces are processed via a specialised mechanism, separate from objects. Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental disorder in which there is a deficit in the ability to recognize conspecific (human) faces. It is unclear, however, whether prosopagnosia also affects recognition of heterospecific …

  • Contextual modulation of appearance-trait learning

    Open AccessHarriet Over, Ruth Lee et al.ARTICLECognition2023

    When we encounter a stranger for the first time, we spontaneously attribute to them a wide variety of character traits based on their facial appearance. There is increasing consensus that learning plays a key role in these first impressions. According to the Trait Inference Mapping (TIM) model, first impressions are the products of mappings between 'face space' and 'trait space' acquired through domain-general associative processes. Drawing on th…

  • Gravel cycling craft and the senses: Scenes, Sounds, Vibrations, Fatigue and Typifications on Off-Road Tracks

    Open AccessRobert Cook, Richard Cook et al.ARTICLEThe Senses and Society2023Cited by: 5References: 60

    Although cycling has been researched at the interactional level, there is scant literature regarding embodiment, and the somatic experiences from rider-bike-ground interactions. Via an ethnographic approach using video obtained from participant observation as a “graveller” sensory practices are examined. Firstly, the research is positioned with the literature on craft studies. Secondly the domains of action namely space, place and the body are th…

  • The self-consistency effect seen on the Dot Perspective Task is a product of domain-general attention cueing, not automatic perspective taking

    Open AccessTim Vestner, Elizabeth Balsys et al.ARTICLECognition2022

    It has been proposed that humans automatically compute the visual perspective of others. Evidence for this view comes from the Dot Perspective Task. In this task, participants view a room in which a human actor is depicted, looking either leftwards or rightwards. Dots can appear on either the left wall of the room, the right wall, or both. At the start of each trial, participants are shown a number. Their speeded task is to decide whether the num…

  • Visual search for facing and non-facing people: The effect of actor inversion

    Open AccessTim Vestner, Katie L H Gray et al.ARTICLECognition2021

    In recent years, there has been growing interest in how human observers perceive, attend to, and recall, social interactions viewed from third-person perspectives. One of the interesting findings to emerge from this new literature is the search advantage for facing dyads. When hidden amongst pairs of individuals facing in the same direction, pairs of individuals arranged front-to-front are found faster in visual search tasks than pairs of individ…

  • Searching for people: Non-facing distractor pairs hinder the visual search of social scenes more than facing distractor pairs

    Open AccessTim Vestner, Harriet Over et al.ARTICLECognition2021

    There is growing interest in the visual and attentional processes recruited when human observers view social scenes containing multiple people. Findings from visual search paradigms have helped shape this emerging literature. Previous research has established that, when hidden amongst pairs of individuals facing in the same direction (leftwards or rightwards), pairs of individuals arranged front-to-front are found faster than pairs of individuals…

  • Inverted faces benefit from whole-face processing

    Open AccessJennifer Murphy, Katie L H Gray et al.ARTICLECognition2020

  • Why are social interactions found quickly in visual search tasks

    Open AccessTim Vestner, Katie L H Gray et al.ARTICLECognition2020

    When asked to find a target dyad amongst non-interacting individuals, participants respond faster when the individuals in the target dyad are shown face-to-face (suggestive of a social interaction), than when they are presented back-to-back. Face-to-face dyads may be found faster because social interactions recruit specialized processing. However, human faces and bodies are salient directional cues that exert a strong influence on how observers d…

  • Social interaction contexts bias the perceived expressions of interactants

    Katie L H Gray, Lee Barber et al.ARTICLEEmotion2017

    The present study sought to determine whether contextual information available when viewing social interactions from third-person perspectives may influence observers' perception of the interactants' facial emotion. Observers judged whether the expression of a target face was happy or fearful, in the presence of a happy, aggressive, or neutral interactant. In 2 experiments, the same target expressions were judged to be happier when presented in t…

  • Atypical trait inferences from facial cues in alexithymia

    Open AccessRebecca Brewer, Fredrika Collins et al.ARTICLEEmotion2015

    It is often difficult to distinguish strangers' permanent facial shapes from their transient facial expressions, for example, whether they are scowling or have narrow-set eyes. Overinterpretation of ambiguous cues may contribute to the rapid character judgments we make about others. Someone with narrow eyes might be judged untrustworthy, because of strong associations between facial anger and threat. To test this hypothesis, we investigated the t…

  • New Zealand Families

    Richard J Cook, Richard CookARTICLEMarriage & Family Review2007Cited by: 1References: 1

    Family life in New Zealand benefits from a bountiful natural environment and a bicultural heritage. As the first people of the land, Maori contribute rich relational attributes that affect people of all cultures who have settled here. Health, education, welfare and economic realities create particular challenges for New Zealand families, especially those at the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum. Labor shortages and the leeching of highly s…

  • Using Discourse Analysis to Explore Family Strengths: A Preliminary Study

    Richard Cook, John DefrainARTICLEMarriage & Family Review2005Cited by: 1References: 3

    Family strengths research and the analysis of discourses were combined in this preliminary study of four families. Behaviours associated with three strength categories-positive communication, ability to cope with stress, and commitment-are identified. Ideas embedded in the participant families' descriptions of these strengths are discussed suggesting there may be a reflexive association of the dominant discourses and the construction of strengths…

  • The pedagogy of competition

    Open AccessMurray L Weidenbaum, Richard Burr et al.ARTICLESociety1987