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Nick Rule

Graduate student
Tufts University
Psychology Department
490 Boston Ave.
Medford, MA 02155 |
About me
I received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 2004 where I
double-majored in psychology and linguistics. My research has two
primary themes: the study of perceptually ambiguous groups and the
accuracy of social perception (see representative publications
below). I take a social cognitive neuroscience approach in
addressing both lines of work and am particularly interested in
diverse methodological and statistical approaches to testing and
understanding human behavior. I am currently supported by a National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and my work has been
featured in numerous media outlets, including
Time,
The Economist,
USA Today,
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
ScienceNOW,
The Atlantic,
The Times (London),
The Globe and Mail,
The Boston Globe,
Scientific American,
Details, and the fictional Fox TV show
Lie to Me.
Recent Publications
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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.
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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.
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Adams, R. B. Jr., Franklin, R. G. Jr., Rule, N. O., Freeman, J.
B., Kveraga, K., Hadjikhani, N., Yoshikawa, S., & Ambady, N. (in
press). Culture, gaze, and the neural processing of fear
expressions. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience.
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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.
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Rule, N. O., Ambady, N., & Adams, R. B., Jr., (in press).
Personality in perspective:
Judgmental consistency across orientations of the face.
Perception.
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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.
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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.
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Rule,
N. O., & Ambady, N. (in press). She’s got the look: Inferences from
female chief executive officers’ faces predict their success. Sex
Roles.
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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.
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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 (Eds.), Culture and Identity: Neural frames of social
cognition. New York: Springer.
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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.
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Freeman,
J. B., Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N. (in press). The cultural neuroscience
of social perception. Progress in Brain Research.
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Pauker,
K., Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N. (In press). Ambiguity and social
perception. In E. Balcetis & D. Lassiter (Eds.) Social Psychology
of Visual Perception.
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Adams,
R. B., Jr., Rule, N. O., Franklin, R. G., Jr., Wang, E. J.,
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.
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Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N.
(2010). Democrats and Republicans can be differentiated by their
faces. PLoS ONE, 5(1): e8733. doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0008733. [HTML]
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Rule, N. O., Macrae, C. N., & Ambady, N. (2009). Ambiguous group
membership is extracted automatically from faces. Psychological
Science, 20, 441-443. [PDF]
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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]
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Rule, N. O.,
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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Rule, N. O.,
& Ambady, N. (2008). First impressions: Peeking at the neural
underpinnings. In N. Ambady & J. Skowronski (Ed.'s). First
Impressions (pp. 35-56). New York: Guilford.
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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].
Recent Talks
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Rule, N. O., Moran, J. M., Freeman, J. B., Whitfield-Gabrieli,
S., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Ambady, N. (2009). Amygdala response
reflects the accuracy of first impressions. Paper presented at
the 3rd annual meeting of the Social Affective Neuroscience
Society, New York, NY.
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Rule, N. O., & Ambady,
N., (2009). Successful snap judgments: Accurate and predictive first
impressions from the face. Talk presented as part of the symposium
Oh snap!
The mental mechanics and accuracy of snap judgments based on
physical appearance at the 10th annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
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Rule, N. O., Ambady, N.,
Adams, R. B., Jr., Ozono, H., Nakashima, S., Yoshikawa, S., &
Watabe, M. (2008). Cultural values predict electoral success in the
U.S. and Japan. Paper presented as part of the symposium Political Social Psychology (Chair: Nicholas O. Rule) at the
Eastern Psychological Association’s annual conference, Boston, MA.
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Rule, N. O.,
Schmid, A., Adams, R. B., Jr., Wang, E., & Ambady, N. (2007). A tale
of two cultures: First impressions and the brain. Paper presented as
part of the symposium "Cultural neuroscience: Culture, neural
activation, and perceptions of music, self, and others" at the 19th
annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science,
Washington, D.C.
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Rule, N. O.,
Adams, R. B., Jr., & Ambady, N. (2006). Subtle social stigmas. Paper
presented as part of the symposium "The social perception of stigma"
at the 18th annual meeting of the Association for Psychological
Science, New York, NY.
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