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Adams, R.B., Jr., Ambady, N., Nakayama, K., & Shimojo, S. (in press). Social Vision. Oxford University Press.

Adams, R. B. Jr., Rule, N. O., Franklin, R. G. Jr., Wang, E., Stevenson, M. T., Yoshikawa, S., Nomura, M., Soto, W, Kveraga, K., & Ambady, N. (in press). Cross-cultural reading the mind in the eyes: An fMRI Investigation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Adams, R. B. Jr., Rule, N. O., Franklin, R. G. Jr., Freeman, J. B., Kestutis, K., Hadkikani, N., Yoshikawa, S., & Ambady, N. (in press). Culture Influences the Role of Gaze in the Neural Processing of Fear Expressions: an fMRI Investigation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Ambady, N. & Bharucha, J. (in press). Culture and the brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Ambady, N., Freeman, J. B., Rule, N. O. (in press). Culture and the neural substrates of behavior, perception, and cognition. In J. Decety & J. Cacioppo (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Neuroscience. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ambady, N. & Weisbuch, M., (in press). Facial expressions: Culture and context. To appear in A. J. Calder, G. Rhodes, J. V. Haxby, & M. H. Johnson (Eds.), The Handbook of Face Perception, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ambady, N. & Adams, R. B. Jr. (in press). Us versus Them: The Social Neuroscience of Perceiving Outgroups. To appear in Todorov, A., Fiske, S. T., & Prentice, D. (Eds.), Social neuroscience: Toward understanding the underpinnings of the social mind. Oxford University Press.

Ambady, N. & Weisbuch, M., (in press). Nonverbal behavior. To appear in S. T. Fiske, D.T. Gilbert & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of Social Psychology.

Avery, D.R., Richeson, J.A., Hebl, M., & Ambady, N. (in press). It doesn't have to be uncomfortable: The role of behavioral scripts in interracial interactions. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Freeman, J. B., Ambady, N. (in press). Motions of the hand expose the partial and parallel activation of stereotypes. Psychological Science.

Freeman, J. B., Pauker, K., Apfelbaum, E. P., & Ambady, N. (in press). Continuous dynamics in the real-time perception of race. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. [pdf]

Freeman, J. B. & Ambady, N. (in press). MouseTracker: Software for studying real-time mental processing using a computer mouse-tracking method. Behavior Research Methods. [pdf] [software]

Freeman, J. B., Rule, N. O., Adams, R. B., Jr., & Ambady, N. (in press). The neural basis of categorical face perception: Graded representations of face gender in fusiform and orbitofrontal cortices. Cerebral Cortex. [pdf]

Freeman, J. B., Ambady, N., & Holcomb, P. J. (in press). The face-sensitive N170 encodes social category information. NeuroReport. [pdf]

Freeman, J. B., Schiller, D., Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N. (in press). The neural origins of superficial and individuated judgments about ingroup and outgroup members. Human Brain Mapping. [pdf]

Pauker, K. B., Ambady, N., & Apfelbaum, E.P. (in press). Race salience and essentialist thinking in racial stereotype development. Child Development.

Pauker, K. B., Rule, N., & Ambady, N. (in press). Ambiguity and social perception. In E. Balcetis & D. Lassiter (Eds.), Social Psychology of Vision.

Rule, N. O., Ambady, N., & Hallett, K. C. (in press). Female sexual orientation is perceived accurately, rapidly, and automatically from the face and its features. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Rule, N. O., Freeman, J. B., & Ambady, N. (in press). Brain and behavior in cultural context: Insights from cognition, perception, and emotion. In S. Han & E. Poeppel (Ed's.), Culture and Identity: Neural frames of social cognition. New York: Springer.

Rule, N. O., Freeman, J. B., Moran, J. M., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Adams, R. B. Jr., & Ambady, N. (in press). Voting behavior is reflected in amygdala response across cultures. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Rule, N. O., Garrett, J. V., & Ambady, N. (in press). Places and faces: Geographic environment influences the ingroup memory advantage. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Rule, N. O., Ambady, N., & Adams, R. B., Jr., (in press). Personality in perspective: Judgmental consistency across orientations of the face. Perception.

Rule, N. O., Ambady, N., Adams, R. B., Jr., Ozono, H., Nakashima, S., Yoshikawa, S., & Watabe, M. (in press). Polling the face: Prediction and consensus across cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Rule, N. & Ambady, N. (in press). She's got the look: Inferences from female chief executive officers' faces predict their success. Sex Roles.

Weisbuch, M., Slepian, M., Clark, A., Ambady, N., & Veenstra-Vander Weele, J. (in press). Behavioral stability across time and situations: Nonverbal versus verbal consistency. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior.

Weisbuch, M., & Ambady, N. Thin slice vision. (in press). In R. B. Adams, Jr., N. Ambady, K. Nakayama. and S. Shimojo Eds.), Social Vision, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Weisbuch, M., Seery, M. D., Ambady, N. & Blascovich, J. (in press). On the correspondence between physiological and nonverbal responses: Nonverbal behavior accompanying challenge and threat. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. [doc]

Ambady, N. (2009). First impressions. In H. Reis, & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Freeman, J. B., Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N. (2009). The cultural neuroscience of social perception. Progress in Brain Research, 178, 191-201. [pdf]

Freeman, J. B. & Ambady, N. (2009). Motions of the hand expose the partial and parallel activation of stereotypes. Psychological Science, 20, 1183-1188. [pdf]

Freeman, J. B., Rule, N. O., Adams, R. B., & Ambady, N. (2009). Culture shapes a mesolimbic response to signals of dominance and subordination that associates with behavior. NeuroImage, 47, 353-359. [pdf]

Newcombe, N. S., Ambady, N., Eccles, J., Gomez, L., Klahr, D., Linn, M., Miller, K., & Mix, K. (2009). Psychology's role in mathematics and science education. American Psychologist, 64, 538-550.

Pauker, K., Weisbuch, M., Ambady, N., Sommers, S. R., Adams, R. B. Jr., & Ivcevic, Z. (2009). Not so Black and White: Memory for ambiguous group members. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 795-810. [pdf]

Pauker, K., & Ambady, N. (2009) Multiracial faces: How categorization affects memory at the boundaries of race. Journal of Social Issues, 65, 69-86. [pdf]

Rule, N., Macrae, C. N. & Ambady, N. (2009). Ambiguous group membership is extracted automatically from faces. Psychological Science, 20, 441-443. [pdf]

Wang, E., Toosi, N., & Ambady, N. (2009). Nonverbal dialects: Culture and person perception. In R.S. Wyer, C. Y. Chiu, Y.Y. Hong, & S. Shavitt, (Eds), Understanding Culture: Theory, Research and Application (pp. 289-298). NY: Psychology Press.

Weisbuch, M., & Ambady, N. (2009). Unspoken Cultural Influence: Exposure to and Influence of Nonverbal Bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 6, 1104-1119. [pdf]

Weisbuch, M., Ivcevic, Z., & Ambady, N. (2009). On being liked on the web and in the "real world": Consistency in first impressions across personal webpages and spontaneous behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 573-576. [pdf]

Ambady, N., & Skowronski, J. (2008). First Impressions. Guilford.

Apfelbaum, E. P., Pauker, K., Ambady, N., Sommers, S. R., & Norton, M. I. (2008). Learning (not) to talk about race: When older children underperform in social categorization. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1513-1518. [pdf]

Chiao, J. Y., Adams, R. B., Tse, P., Richeson, J. A., & Ambady, N. (2008). Knowing who's boss: fMRI and ERP investigations of social dominance perception. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 11, 201-214. [pdf]

Chiao, J. Y., Iidaka, T., Gordon, H. L., Nogawa, J., Bar, M., Aminoff, E., Sadato, N., & Ambady, N. (2008). Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 2167-2174. [pdf]

Freeman, J. B., Ambady, N., Rule, N. O., & Johnson, K. L. (2008). Will a category cue attract you? Motor output reveals dynamic competition across person construal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 673-690. [pdf]

Rule, N., Ambady, N., Adams, R. B. Jr. & Macrae, C. N. (2008). Accuracy and awareness in the perception and categorization of male sexual orientation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1019-1028. [pdf]

Rule, N. & Ambady, N. (2008). First impressions: Peeking at the neural underpinnings. In N. Ambady & J. Skowronski (Eds.) First Impressions. NY: Guilford.

Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N. (2008). The face of success: Inferences from chief executive officers' appearance predict company profits. Psychological Science, 19, 109-111. [pdf] [press]

Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N. (2008). Brief exposures: Male sexual orientation is accurately perceived at 50 ms. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1100-1105. [pdf]

Skowronski, J. & Ambady, N. (2008). First Impressions: Rationales and Roadmap. In N. Ambady & J. Skowronski (Eds.) First Impressions. NY: Guilford.

Weisbuch, M., & Ambady, N. (2008). Affective divergence: Automatic responses to others' emotions depend on group membership. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1063-1079. [pdf]

Weisbuch, M., & Ambady, N. (2008). Nonconscious routes to building culture: Nonverbal components of socialization. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15, 159-183. Reprinted in C. Whitehead (Ed). (2008), The Origins of Consciousness in the Social World, (pp. 159-183). Exeter, UK: Imprint.

Ambady, N., & Rule, N. O. (2007). Thin slices of behavior. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Chiao, J., & Ambady, N. (2007). Cultural neuroscience: Parsing universality and diversity across levels of analysis. In S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds), The Handbook of Cultural Psychology (pp 237-254). New York: Guilford Press. [pdf]

Elfenbein, H. A., Polzer, J. T., & Ambady, N. (2007). Team emotion recognition accuracy and team performance. In C. E. J. Hartel, N. M. Ashkanasy, & W. J. Zerbe (Eds.), Functionality, Intentionality and Morality, Research on Emotion in Organizations, Vol. 3, Oxford, UK: Elsevier. [pdf]

Marsh, A. A., & Ambady, N. (2007). Accurate identification of fear facial expressions predicts prosocial behavior. Emotion, 7, 239-251. [pdf]

Marsh, A. A., & Ambady, N. (2007). The influence of the fear facial expression on prosocial responding. Cognition & Emotion, 21, 225-247. [pdf]

Marsh, A. A., Elfenbein, H. A., & Ambady, N. (2007). Separated by a common language: Nonverbal accents and cultural stereotypes about Americans and Australians. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 38, 284-301. [pdf]

Rule, N. O., Ambady, N., Adams, R. B., Jr., & Macrae, C. N. (2007). Us and them: Memory advantages in perceptually ambiguous groups. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 687-692.  [pdf]

Adams, R. B. Jr., Ambady, N., Macrae, C.N., & Kleck R.E. (2006). Emotional expressions forecast approach-avoidance behavior. Motivation and Emotion, 30, 179-188. [pdf]

Ambady, N., Krabbenhoft, M. A., & Hogan, D. (2006). The 30-sec sale: Using thin slice judgments to evaluate sales effectiveness. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 16, 4-13. [pdf]

Chiao, J. Y., Heck, H. E., Nakayama, K., & Ambady, N. (2006). Priming race in biracial observers affects visual search for Black and White faces. Psychological Science, 17, 387-392. [pdf]

Gray, H. M. , & Ambady, N. (2006). Methods for the Study of Nonverbal Communication. In V. Manusov & M. Patterson (Eds.)., The Handbook of Nonverbal Communication (pp. 41-58), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [pdf]

Steele, J. R., & Ambady, N. (2006). "Math is hard!" The effect of gender priming on women's attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 428-436. [pdf]

Ambady, N., Chiao, J. Y., Chiu, P., & Deldin, P. (2005). Race and emotion recognition: Insights from a social neuroscience perspective. In J. T. Cacioppo, P. S. Visser, & C. L. Pickett (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: People thinking about thinking people (pp. 209-228). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [pdf]

Choi, Y. S., Gray, H. M., & Ambady, N. (2005). The glimpsed world: Unintended communication and unintended perception. In R. R. Hassin, J. S. Uleman, & J. A. Bargh (Eds.), The New Unconscious (pp. 309-333). New York: Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Marsh, A. A., Ambady, N., & Kleck, R. E. (2005). The effects of fear and anger facial expressions on approach- and avoidance-related behaviors. Emotion, 5, 119-124. [pdf]

Molinsky, A. L., Krabbenhoft. M. A., Ambady, N., & Choi, Y. S. (2005). Cracking the Nonverbal Code: Intercultural competence and the diagnosis of gestures across cultures. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 36, 380-395. [pdf]

Ambady, N., Paik, S. K., Steele, J., Owen-Smith, A., & Mitchell, J. P. (2004). Deflecting negative self-relevant stereotype activation: The effects of individuation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 401-408. [pdf]

Chiao, J.Y., Bordeaux, A. R., & Ambady, N. (2004). Mental representations of social status. Cognition, 93, 49-57. [pdf]

Chiu, P., Ambady, N., & Deldin, P. (2004). CNV in response to emotional in- and out-group stimuli differentiates high- and low-prejudiced individuals. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1830-1839. [pdf]

Elfenbein, H. A., Mandal, M. K., Ambady, N., Harizuka, S., & Kumar, S. (2004). Hemifacial differences in the in-group advantage in emotion recognition. Cognition & Emotion, 18, 613-629. [pdf]

Gray, H. M., Ambady, N., Lowenthal, W. T., & Deldin, P. (2004). P300 as an index of attention to self-relevant stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 216-224. [pdf]

Mandal, M. K., & Ambady, N. (2004). Laterality of facial expressions of emotion: Universal and culture-specific influences. Behavioural Neurology, 15, 23-34. [pdf]

Steele, J., Choi, Y. S., & Ambady, N. (2004). Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination: The effect of group based expectations on moral functioning. In T. A. Thorkildsen, & H. J. Walberg (Eds.), Nurturing Morality (pp. 77-97). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. [pdf]

Adams, R. B., Jr., Gordon, H. L., Baird, A. A., Ambady, N., & Kleck, R. E. (2003). Effects of gaze on amygdala sensitivity to anger and fear faces. Science, 300, 1536. [pdf ]

Elfenbein, H. A. , & Ambady, N. (2003). Cultural similarity's consequences: A distance perspective on cross-cultural differences in emotion recognition. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 34, 92-109. [pdf]

Elfenbein, H. A. , & Ambady, N. (2003). Universals and cultural differences in recognizing emotions of a different cultural group. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 12, 159-164. [pdf]

Elfenbein, H. A., & Ambady, N. (2003). When familiarity breeds accuracy: Cultural exposure and facial emotion recognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 276-290. [pdf]

LaPlante, D., & Ambady, N. (2003). On how things are said: Voice tone, voice intensity, verbal content, and perceptions of politeness. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 22, 434-441. [pdf]

Marsh, A. A. , Elfenbein, H. A. , & Ambady, N. (2003). Nonverbal "accents": Cultural differences in facial expressions of emotion. Psychological Science, 14, 373-376. [pdf]

Richeson, J. A., & Ambady, N. (2003). Effects of situational power on automatic racial prejudice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 177-183. [pdf]

Steele, J., Choi, Y. S., & Ambady, N. (2003). Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination: The effects of group based expectations on moral functioning. The LSS Review, 2, 13-15. [pdf]

Ambady, N., & Gray, H. (2002). On being sad and mistaken: Mood effects on the accuracy of thin slice judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 947-961. [pdf]

Ambady, N., & Hallahan, M. (2002). Using nonverbal representations of behavior: Perceiving sexual orientation. In A. M. Galaburda, S.M. Kosslyn & C. Yves (Eds.), The Languages of the Brain (pp. 320-332). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [pdf]

Ambady, N., LaPlante, D., Nguyen. T., Rosenthal, R., Chaumeton, N., & Levinson, W. (2002). Surgeon's tone of voice: A clue to malpractice history. Surgery, 132, 5-9. [pdf]

Ambady, N., Koo, J., Rosenthal, R., & Winograd, C. (2002). Physical therapists' nonverbal communication predicts geriatric patients' health outcomes. Psychology and Aging, 17, 443-452. [pdf]

Elfenbein, H. A. & Ambady, N. (2002). Is there an in-group advantage in emotion recognition? Psychological Bulletin, 128, 243-249. [pdf]

Elfenbein, H. A., & Ambady, N. (2002). On the universality and cultural specificity of emotion recognition: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 203-235. [pdf]

Elfenbein, H. A., & Ambady, N. (2002). Predicting workplace outcomes from the ability to eavesdrop on feelings. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 963-971. [pdf]

Elfenbein, H. A., Mandal, M. K., Ambady, N., Harizuka, S., & Kumar, S. (2002). Cross-cultural patterns in emotion recognition: Highlighting design and analytical techniques. Emotion, 2, 75-84. [pdf]

Elfenbein, H. A., Marsh, A., & Ambady, N. (2002). Emotional intelligence andthe recognition of emotion from facial expressions. In L. F. Barrett & P. Salovey (Eds.), The Wisdom in Feeling: Psychological Processes in Emotional Intelligence (pp.37-59). New York: The Guilford Press. [pdf]

LaPlante, D., & Ambady, N. (2002). Saying it like it isn't: Mixed messages from men and women in the workplace. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 32, 2435-2457. [pdf]

Phelps, C. D., & Ambady, N. (2002). The mother's voice: A predictor of the father's impact on their child's adult economic outcomes. Stability and Dynamics of Power, 308-312. Proceedings of IAREP/SABE Conference on Behavioral Economics. [pdf]

Shih, M., Ambady, N., Richeson, J.A., Fujita, K., & Gray, H. M. (2002). Stereotype performance boosts: The impact of self-relevance and the manner of stereotype activation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 638-647. [pdf]

Ambady, N., LaPlante, D., & Johnson, E. (2001). Thin slice judgments as a measure of interpersonal sensitivity. In J. A. Hall & F. J. Bernieri (Eds.), Interpersonal Sensitivity: Theory and Measurement (pp. 89-101), Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [pdf]

Ambady, N., Shih, M., Kim, A., & Pittinsky, T. L. (2001). Stereotype susceptibility in children: Effects of identity activation on quantitative performance. Psychological Science, 12, 385-390. [pdf]

Richeson, J., & Ambady, N. (2001). Who's in charge? Effects of situational roles on automatic gender bias. Sex Roles, 44, 493-512. [pdf]

Richeson, J. A., & Ambady, N. (2001). When roles reverse: Stigma, status, and self-evaluation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 1350-1378. [pdf]

Ambady, N., Bernieri, F. J., & Richeson, J. A. (2000). Toward a histology of social behavior: Judgmental accuracy from thin slices of the behavioral stream. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 32 (pp. 201-272). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. [pdf]

LaPlante, D., & Ambady, N. (2000). Multiple messages: Facial recognition advantage for compound expressions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 24, 211-224. [pdf]

Pittinsky, T. L., Shih, M., & Ambady, N. (2000). Will a category cue affect you? Category cues, positive stereotypes, and reviewer recall for applicants. Social Psychology of Education, 4, 53-65. [pdf]

Ambady, N., Hallahan, M., & Conner, B. (1999). Accuracy of judgments of sexual orientation from thin slices of behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 538-547. [pdf]

Hecht, M. A., & Ambady, N. (1999). Nonverbal communication and psychology: Past and future. NJ Journal of Communication, 7, 156-170. [pdf]

Pittinsky, T. L., Shih, M., & Ambady, N. (1999). Identity adaptiveness: Affect across multiple identities. Journal of Social Issues, 55, 503-518. [pdf]

Shih, M., Pittinsky, T. L., & Ambady, N. (1999). Stereotype susceptibility:Identity salience and shifts in quantitative performance. Psychological Science, 10, 80-83. [pdf]

Ambady, N., & Rosenthal, R. (1998). Nonverbal Communication. In H. Friedman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 2 (pp. 775-782). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. [pdf]

Ambady, N., & Rosenthal, R. (1997). Judging Social Behavior Using "Thin Slices". Chance, 10, 12-18. [pdf]

Ambady, N., Koo, J., Lee, F., & Rosenthal, R. (1996). More than words: Linguistic and nonlinguistic politeness in two cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 5, 996-1011. [pdf]

Ambady, N., Hallahan, M., & Rosenthal, R. (1995). On judging and being judged accurately in zero-acquaintance situations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 518-529. [pdf]

Ambady, N., & Rosenthal, R. (1995). Experimenter effects. In A. S. R. Manstead and M. Hewstone (Eds.), Blackwell dictionary of social psychology (pp. 230-235). Oxford, England: Blackwell. [pdf]

Heatherton, T. F. & Ambady, N. (1994). Self-esteem, self-prediction, and living up to commitments. In R. F. Baumeister (Ed.), Self-esteem: The puzzle of low self-regard (pp.1-8). New York: Plenum. [pdf]

Ambady, N., & Rosenthal, R. (1993). Half a minute: Predicting teacher evaluations from thin slices of nonverbal behavior and physical attractiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 431-441. [pdf]

Ambady, N., & Rosenthal, R. (1992). Thin slices of expressive behavior as predictors of interpersonal consequences: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 111, 256-274. [pdf]

Liggon, C., Weston, J., Ambady, N., Colloton, M., Rosenthal, R., & Reite, M. (1992). Content-free voice analysis of mothers talking about their failure-to-thrive children. Infant Behavior and Development, 15, 507-511. [pdf]