Primary Work
The Hyper-Typicality Effect: The typical face is not average
Anjana Lakshmi, Bernd Wittenbrink, Joshua Correll, and Debbie S. Ma
Psychological Science, under review.
What is Facial “Afrocentricity”? Representations of “Afrocentricity” Differ Across White and Black Faces
Anjana Lakshmi and Kurt Hugenberg
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, revise & resubmit.
Gesture conveys social cognitions: Inquiries on perception, activation, and spontaneous production
Anjana Lakshmi
Doctoral dissertation, ProQuest, 2024.
The India Face Set: International and Cultural Boundaries Impact Face Impressions and Perceptions of Category Membership
Anjana Lakshmi, Bernd Wittenbrink, Joshua Correll, and Debbie S. Ma
Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 161, 2021.
Collaborations
Positive attitudes towards women predict the extent to which trustworthy facial appearance is inferred from femininity in White faces
Anjana Lakshmi, Neelamberi D. Klein, Erin Freiburger, Ryan J Hutchings, Dhanya Elangovan, Jeanine Sempler, and Kurt Hugenberg
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, under review.
Modeling Decision Making During Social Cognition
Tim J. Pleskac, Nada Aggadi, Anjana Lakshmi, Carly A. Lasagna, Alex (Anh) Tran, and Robert J. Rydell
Handbook of Computational Social Psychology, in press.
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Race distorts how faces seem (un)trustworthy
Neelamberi D. Klein, Anjana Lakshmi, Erin Freiburger, Ryan J Hutchings, and Kurt Hugenberg
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, conditional acceptance.
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Dissecting cross-category recognition: A methodological test of the theory of perceptual expertise
Brandon Cohen, Balbir Singh, Joshua Correll, and Anjana Lakshmi
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2026.
The mental representation of ingroup and outgroup faces
Joshua Correll, Anjana Lakshmi, Bernd Wittenbrink, Debbie S. Ma, Balbir Singh, Bansemer, E., and Harvey Jr, L. O.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2025.
Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: How societies mind the gap
Federica Durante, Susan T. Fiske, Nicolas Kervyn and colleagues
British Journal of Social Psychology, 52(4), 726–746, 2013. doi:10.1111/bjso.12005
Manuscripts in Prep
Gestures reveal social cognitive maps
Anjana Lakshmi, Susan T. Fiske, and Susan Goldin-Meadow
Manuscript in preparation.
Understanding status and race perception using reverse correlation image classification
Anjana Lakshmi, Sam Venezia, Bradley D. Mattan, Jasmin Cloutier, and Jennifer T. Kubota
Manuscript in preparation.
The Doppelgänger Methodology
Brandon Cohen, Anjana Lakshmi, Balbir Singh, and Joshua Correll
Manuscript in preparation.
Emotion Expression and Race Influence Trust Judgments: A Drift Diffusion Modeling Perspective
Alex (Anh) Tran, Anjana Lakshmi, Neelamberi D. Klein, Chloe Mitchell, Nada Aggadi, Robert J. Rydell, Tim J. Pleskac, and Kurt Hugenberg
Manuscript in preparation.