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  1. How much femininity/masculinity people find attractive depends on their sexual orientation & culture

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  2. Do faces or bodies matter more for first impressions?

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, June 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  3. Stereotypes bias social class perception from faces: The roles of race, gender, affect, and attractiveness

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, February 2024, SAGE Publications

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  4. People make judgments of social class from faces using features that are related to stereotypes

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  5. ‘Are they refugees or economic migrants?’ The effect of asylum seekers' motivation to migrate on intentions to help them

    Article • Journal of Applied Social Psychology, June 2023, Wiley

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  6. Consensus Enables Accurate Social Judgments

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, October 2021, SAGE Publications

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  7. Beyond categories: Perceiving sexual attraction from faces

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, July 2021, Wiley

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  8. Parsing the Mechanisms Underlying Ingroup Facial Resemblance

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2021, SAGE Publications

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  9. Perceiving acculturation from neutral and emotional faces.

    Article • Emotion, June 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  10. Social trait perception is structured by a latent composition of 3D face features

    Article • Journal of Vision, October 2020, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  11. Psychologically Valid Social Face Features for Virtual Agents

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  12. Emotion and Gender Typicality Cue Sexual Orientation Differently in Women and Men

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  13. Negative emotion and perceived social class.

    Article • Emotion, June 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  14. When words become borders: Ingroup favoritism in perceptions and mental representations of Anglo-Canadian and Franco-Canadian faces

    Article • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  15. Cultural Neuroscience

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  16. Cultural differences in perceiving and processing emotions: a holistic approach to person perception

    Article • Culture and Brain, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  17. The visibility of social class from facial cues.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, October 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  18. Emotional Expressions Support the Communication of Social Groups: A Pragmatic Extension of Affective Pragmatics

    Article • Psychological Inquiry, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  19. The Perceptive Proletarian: Subjective Social Class Predicts Interpersonal Accuracy

    Article • Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  20. Subtle perceptions of male sexual orientation influence occupational opportunities.

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, December 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  21. On the relationship between acculturation and intercultural understanding: Insight from the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test

    Article • International Journal of Intercultural Relations, May 2016, Elsevier

    R. Thora Bjornsdottir