Mattea Sims
Biographic Data
| ID | 4621283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mattea Sims |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mattea |
| FAMILY NAME | Sims |
| SIGNATURE | SIMS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8346-2459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Punching Down: People Justify More Police Force Against Lower-Than Higher-SES Male Civilians
Understanding socioeconomic status (SES)-based stereotyping and discrimination is imperative but is seldom focal to intergroup relations research in social psychology. In the present work, we examine how people differentially justify police force across civilians’ SES. Across three experiments, we found that perceivers justify more police force to regulate the behavior of lower-SES than higher-SES men. These SES-based biases remain even when hold…
A Race-Based Size Bias for Black Adolescent Boys: Size, Innocence, and Threat
We adopted an intersectional stereotyping lens to investigate whether race-based size bias—the tendency to judge Black men as larger than White men—extends to adolescents. Participants judged Black boys as taller than White boys, despite no real size differences (Studies 1A and 1B), and even when boys were matched in age (Study 1B). The size bias persisted when participants viewed computer-generated faces that varied only in apparent race (Study …
Perceiving People With Physical Disabilities as Overcoming Adversity Warps Mind Perception
Across six studies, we tested how people with physical disabilities were ascribed mental faculties. People with physical disabilities were seen as more capable of mental agency (e.g., thinking), but not more capable of experience (e.g., pain), compared to nondisabled people (Study 1). People with physical disabilities were also seen as more capable of supernatural mental agency (e.g., seeing the future, reading minds; Study 2). Believing that peo…
Bodies and Minds: Heavier Weight Targets Are De-Mentalized as Lacking in Mental Agency
Five experiments investigate the hypothesis that heavier weight individuals are denied mental agency (i.e., higher order cognitive and intentional capacities), but not experience (e.g., emotional and sensory capacities), relative to average weight individuals. Across studies, we find that as targets increase in weight, they are denied mental agency; however, target weight has no reliable influence on ascriptions of experience (Studies 1a–2b). Fur…
Stereotyping at the intersection of race and weight: Diluted threat stereotyping of obese Black men
Spatial frequency and valence interact in complex emotion perception
Research on spatial frequency contributions to facial emotion identification has largely focused on basic emotions. The present experiment characterised spatial frequency contributions to decoding complex emotions, which can be less visible and intense than basic emotions. We investigated the effects of spatial frequency, expression valence and perceptually available features (full face or eyes only) on decoding accuracy. We observed main effects…
Decoding complex emotions and humanization show related face processing effects
Inferring others' complex emotions is central to ascribing humanness to others. However, little past research has investigated the perceptual processes linking the inference of complex emotions to judging others' humanness. To this end, we disrupted the low-level perceptual processes typically employed in face processing via face inversion. Of interest was whether the inversion-driven deficits in complex emotion judgments and in humanness judgmen…
Good Cop, Bad Cop: Race-Based Differences in Mental Representations of Police
The current work investigates race-based biases in conceptualization of the facial appearance of police. We employ a reverse correlation procedure to demonstrate that Black Americans, relative to White Americans, conceptualize police officers’ faces as more negative, less positive, and more dominant. We further find that these differential representations have implications for interactions with police. When naïve participants (of various races) v…
Good Cop, Bad Cop: Race-Based Differences in Mental Representations of Police
The current work investigates race-based biases in conceptualization of the facial appearance of police. We employ a reverse correlation procedure to demonstrate that Black Americans, relative to White Americans, conceptualize police officers’ faces as more negative, less positive, and more dominant. We further find that these differential representations have implications for interactions with police. When naïve participants (of various races) v…
Spatial frequency and valence interact in complex emotion perception
Research on spatial frequency contributions to facial emotion identification has largely focused on basic emotions. The present experiment characterised spatial frequency contributions to decoding complex emotions, which can be less visible and intense than basic emotions. We investigated the effects of spatial frequency, expression valence and perceptually available features (full face or eyes only) on decoding accuracy. We observed main effects…
Decoding complex emotions and humanization show related face processing effects
Inferring others' complex emotions is central to ascribing humanness to others. However, little past research has investigated the perceptual processes linking the inference of complex emotions to judging others' humanness. To this end, we disrupted the low-level perceptual processes typically employed in face processing via face inversion. Of interest was whether the inversion-driven deficits in complex emotion judgments and in humanness judgmen…
Bodies and Minds: Heavier Weight Targets Are De-Mentalized as Lacking in Mental Agency
Five experiments investigate the hypothesis that heavier weight individuals are denied mental agency (i.e., higher order cognitive and intentional capacities), but not experience (e.g., emotional and sensory capacities), relative to average weight individuals. Across studies, we find that as targets increase in weight, they are denied mental agency; however, target weight has no reliable influence on ascriptions of experience (Studies 1a–2b). Fur…
Stereotyping at the intersection of race and weight: Diluted threat stereotyping of obese Black men
Perceiving People With Physical Disabilities as Overcoming Adversity Warps Mind Perception
Across six studies, we tested how people with physical disabilities were ascribed mental faculties. People with physical disabilities were seen as more capable of mental agency (e.g., thinking), but not more capable of experience (e.g., pain), compared to nondisabled people (Study 1). People with physical disabilities were also seen as more capable of supernatural mental agency (e.g., seeing the future, reading minds; Study 2). Believing that peo…
A Race-Based Size Bias for Black Adolescent Boys: Size, Innocence, and Threat
We adopted an intersectional stereotyping lens to investigate whether race-based size bias—the tendency to judge Black men as larger than White men—extends to adolescents. Participants judged Black boys as taller than White boys, despite no real size differences (Studies 1A and 1B), and even when boys were matched in age (Study 1B). The size bias persisted when participants viewed computer-generated faces that varied only in apparent race (Study …
Punching Down: People Justify More Police Force Against Lower-Than Higher-SES Male Civilians
Understanding socioeconomic status (SES)-based stereotyping and discrimination is imperative but is seldom focal to intergroup relations research in social psychology. In the present work, we examine how people differentially justify police force across civilians’ SES. Across three experiments, we found that perceivers justify more police force to regulate the behavior of lower-SES than higher-SES men. These SES-based biases remain even when hold…
Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Agency (philosophy) (2 works) · Algorithm (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Decoding methods (2 works)