In Press

Spangler, D.P., Li, E., Revi, G.S., Kubota, J.T., Cloutier, J., & Lauharatanahirun, N. (in press).

The psychological costs of behavioral immunity following COVID-19 diagnosis. Scientific Reports.

Ito, T.A., & Kubota, J.T. (in press).

The social neuroscience of social cognition. In D.E. Carlston, K. Johnson, & K. Hugenberg (Eds.) Handbook of Social Cognition.

2024

Kubota, J.T. (2024).

Uncovering Implicit Racial Bias in the Brain: The past, present, and future. Daedalus, 153, 84-105. -PDF

2023

Kubota, J.T., Venezia, S., Gautam, R., Wilhelm, A.L., Mattan, B.D., & Cloutier, J. (2023).

Distrust as a form of inequality. Scientific Reports, 13, 9901. -PDF

Kubota, J.T., Gautam, R., & Cloutier, J. (2023).

The social neuroscience of intergroup decision-making. In N. Ellemers, S. Pagliaro, & F. van Nunspeet. (Eds.) Routledge Handbook on the Psychology of Morality. -PDF

Handley, G., Kubota, J.T., & Cloutier, J. (2023).

Reading the mind in the eyes of Black and White people: Interracial contact and perceived race affects brain activity when inferring mental states. NeuroImage, 269, 119910 -PDF

2022

Dang, T. P., Mattan, B. D., Barth, D. M., Handley, G., Cloutier, J. & Kubota, J. T. (2022).

Perceiving social injustice during arrests of Black and White civilians by White police officers: An fMRI investigation. NeuroImage, 255, 119153 -PDF

Kubota, J.T., Dang, T.P., Mattan, B.D., Handley, G., Barth, D.M., Cloutier, J. (2022).

Social justice neuroscience, a valuable and complex endeavor. Authors’ reply to commentaries on “Perceiving social injustice during arrests of Black and White civilians by White police officers: An fMRI investigation”. NeuroImage, 255, 119155. -PDF

Handley, G., Kubota, J. T., & Cloutier, J. (2022).

Interracial contact differentially shapes brain networks involved in social and non-social judgments from faces: A combination of univariate and multivariate approaches. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17 (2), 218-230. -PDF

Frausel, R. R., Velez, G., Mandviwala, T., & Kubota, J. (2022).

Promoting empathy in adolescents: An exploratory study of the Story Exchange. Journal of Character Education, 18(1), 31–49. -PDF

2021

Handley, G., Kubota, J. T.*, Li. T., & Cloutier, J. (2021).

Impact of interracial contact on inferring mental states from facial expressions. Royal Society Open Science, 8, 202137. *shared first author -PDF

Ito, T. A., & Kubota, J. T. (2021).

Bioelectrical echoes from a career at the cutting edge: John Cacioppo’s legacy and the use of ERPs in social psychology. Social Neuroscience, 16(1), 83-91. -PDF

2020

Barth, D. M., Mattan, B. D., Dang, T. P., & Cloutier, J. (2020).

Regional and network neural activity reflect men’s preference for greater socioeconomic status during impression formation. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-17. -PDF

Mattan, B. D., & Cloutier, J. (2020).

A registered report on how implicit pro-rich bias is shaped by the perceiver’s gender and socioeconomic status. Royal Society Open Science, 7(8), 191232. -PDF

Dang, T. P., Cloutier, J., & Kubota, J. T. (2020).

IPOC Database: A free database of interracial police officer-civilian interaction videos. Social Cognition, 38, 179-196. -PDF

Mattan, B. D., Barth, D. M., Thompson, A., FeldmanHall, O., Cloutier, J., & Kubota, J. T. (2020).

Punishing the privileged: Selfish offers from high-status allocators elicit greater punishment from third-party arbitrators. PLoS ONE, 15. -PDF

Mattan, B. D., & Kubota, J. T. (2020).

Status beyond what meets the eye. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(3), 233-234. -PDF

2019

Handley, G.*, Kubota, J. T.*, Li, T., & Cloutier, J. (2019).

Black “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Task: The development of a task assessing mentalizing from Black faces. PLoS ONE, 14, e0221867. *shared first author -PDF

Dang*, T. P., Mattan*, B. D., Kubota, J. T., & Cloutier, J. (2019).

The ventromedial prefrontal cortex is particularly responsive to social evaluations requiring the use of person-knowledge. Scientific Reports, 9. *shared first author -PDF

Mattan, B. D.*, Kubota, J. T.*, Li, T., Venezia., S. A., & Cloutier, J. (2019).

Implicit evaluative biases toward targets varying in race and socioeconomic status. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 1512-1527. *shared first author -PDF

2018

Mattan, B. D.,  Kubota, J. T., Li, T., Dang, T. P., & Cloutier, J. (2018).

Motivation modulates brain networks in response to faces varying in race and status: A multivariate approach. eNeuro, 5, eoo39-18.2018. -PDF

Mattan, B. D., Wei, K., Cloutier, J., & Kubota, J. T. (2018).

The social neuroscience of race- and status-based prejudice. Current Opinion in Psychology, 24, 27-34. -PDF

Barth, D. M., Mattan, B. D., & Cloutier, J. (2018). 

Social categorization by age of faces. In: Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (Eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham 

Mattan, B. D.*, Kubota, J. T.*, Dang, T., & Cloutier, J. (2018).

External motivation to respond without prejudice differently alters neural processing of race and social status. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 13, 22–31.  *shared first author. -PDF

2017

Gyurovski, I., Kubota, J., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., & Cloutier, J.  (2017).

Social status level and dimension interactively influence person evaluations indexed by P300s. Social Neuroscience, 12, 1-13. -PDF

Kubota, J. T., Peiso, J., Marcum, K., & Cloutier, J. (2017).

Intergroup contact throughout the lifespan modulates implicit racial biases across perceivers’ racial group. PLoS ONE, 12, 1-12. -PDF

Mattan, B. D., Kubota, J. T., & Cloutier, J. (2017).

How social status shapes person perception and evaluation: A social neuroscience perspective. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12, 468-478. -PDF

Kubota, J. T., & Ito, T. A. (2017).

Rapid race perception despite individuation and accuracy goals. Social Neuroscience, 12, 468-507. -PDF

Cloutier, J.,  Li, T., Mišić, B., Correll, J., & Berman, M. G. (2017).

Brain network activity during face perception: The impact of perceptual familiarity and individual differences in childhood experience. Cerebral Cortex, 27, 4326-4338. -PDF

2016

Dunsmoor, J., Kubota, J. T., Li, J., Augusto, C., & Phelps, E. A. (2016).

Racially derived stereotypes impair flexibility of emotional learning. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 1363-1373. -PDF

Correll, J., Cloutier, J., & Mellinger, C. (2016).

Discriminating Perception, Psychological Inquiry, 27, 281-285. -PDF

Cloutier, J., Gyurovski, I. I., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Barakzai, A., & Li, T. (2016).

Neuroimaging investigations of social status and social hierarchies. In J. R. Absher & J. Cloutier (Eds.), Neuroimaging Personality, Social Cognition, and Character (pp. 187-203). London, UK: Elsevier. -PDF

Senholzi, K., & Kubota, J. T. (2016)

The neural mechanisms of prejudice intervention. In J. R. Absher & J. Cloutier (Eds.), Neuroimaging Personality, Social Cognition, and Character (pp. 338-354). London, UK: Elsevier. -PDF

Kubota, J. T., & Ito, T. A. (2016).

You were always on my mind: How event-related brain potentials inform impression formation research. In T. D. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination: Second Edition (pp. 279-299). New York, NY: Psychology Press. (Link to Amazon)

Li, T., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Correll, J., & Cloutier, J. (2016).

The impact of motivation on race-based impression formation. NeuroImage, 124, 1-7. -PDF

Kubota, J. T., & Phelps, E. A. (2016).

Insights from functional magnetic resonance imaging research on race. In T. D. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination: Second Edition (pp. 299-313). New York, NY: Psychology Press. (Link to Amazon)

2015

Kubota, J. T., & Phelps, E. A. (2015).

Exploring the brain dynamics of racial stereotyping. In A. Toga & M. Lieberman (Eds.), Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference (pp. 241-246). London, UK: Elsevier. (Link to Amazon)

FeldmanHall, O., Raio, C., Kubota, J. T., Seiler, M., & Phelps, E. A. (2015).

The effects of social context and acute stress on decision making under uncertainty. Psychological Science, 26, 1918-1926. -PDF

2014

Kubota, J. T., Mojdehbakhsh, R., Raio, C., Brosch, T., Uleman, J. S., & Phelps, E. A. (2014).

Stressing the person: Legal and everyday person attributions under stress. Biological Psychology, 103, 117-124. -PDF

Kubota, J. T., & Ito, T. A. (2014).

The role of expression and race in weapons identification. Emotion, 14, 1115-1124. -PDF

Cloutier, J., & Gyurovski, I. (2014).

Ventral medial prefrontal cortex and person evaluation: Forming impressions of others varying in financial and moral status. NeuroImage, 100, 535-543. -PDF

Cloutier, J., Li, T., & Correll, J. (2014).

The impact of childhood experience on amygdala response to perceptually familiar black and white faces. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 1992-2004. -PDF

Ito, T. A., & Kubota, J. T. (2014).

Social neuroscience. Introductory Psychology. Champaign, IL: Diener Education Fund. Noba Project Text Books

Cloutier, J., Freeman, J. B., & Ambady, N. (2014).

Investigating the early stages of person perception: The asymmetry of social categorization by sex vs. age. PLoS ONE, 9, 1-7. -PDF

2013

Kubota, J. T., Li, J., Bar-David, E., Banaji, M. R., & Phelps, E. A. (2013).

The price of racial bias: Intergroup negotiations in the Ultimatum Game. Psychological Science, 24, 2498-2504. -PDF

Cloutier, J., Norman, G. J., Li, T., & Berntson, G. G. (2013).

Person perception and autonomic nervous system response: The costs and benefits of possessing a high social status. Biological Psychology, 92, 301-305. -PDF

Cloutier, J., & Gyurovski, I. I. (2013).

Intraparietal sulcus activity during explicit self-referential social status judgments about others. International Journal of Psychological Research, 6 (Special Issue on Social Neuroscience), 68-79. -PDF

2012

Ratner, K. G., & Kubota, J. T. (2012).

Genetic contributions to intergroup responses: A cautionary perspective. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 223. -PDF

Kubota, J. T., Banaji, M. R., & Phelps, E. A. (2012).

The neuroscience of race. Nature Neuroscience, 15, 940-948. -PDF

Cloutier, J., Ambady, N., Meagher, T., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2012).

The neural substrates of person perception: Spontaneous use of financial and moral status knowledge. Neuropsychologia, 50, 2371-2376. -PDF

2011

Cloutier, J., Gabrieli, J. D. E., O’Young, D., & Ambady, N. (2011).

An fMRI study of violations of social expectations: When people are not what we expect them to be. NeuroImage, 57, 583-588. -PDF

Kubota, J. T., & Senholzi, K. B. (2011).

Knowing you beyond race: The importance of individual feature encoding in the other-race effect. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5, 33. -PDF

Cloutier, J., Kelley, W. M., & Heatherton, T. F. (2011).

The influence of perceptual and knowledge-based familiarity on the neural substrates of face perception. Social Neuroscience, 6, 63-75. -PDF

2010

Powell, L., Macrae, C. N., Cloutier, J., Metcalfe, J., & Mitchell, J. (2010).

Dissociable neural substrates for agentic versus conceptual representations of self. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 2186-2197. -PDF

2009

Macrae, C. N., & Cloutier, J. (2009).

A matter of design: Priming context and person perception. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1012-1015. -PDF

Aminoff, E. M., Balslev, D., Borroni, P., Bryan, R. E., Chua, E. A., Cloutier, J., Cross, E. S., Drew, T., Funk, C. M., Gil-da-Costa, R., Guerin, S. A., Hall, J. L., Jordan, K. E., Landau, A. N., Molnar-Szakacs, I., Montaser-Kouhsari, L., Olofsson, J. K., Quadflieg, S., Somerville, L. H., Sy, J. L., Uddin, L. Q., & Yamada, M. (2009).

The landscape of cognitive neuroscience: Challenges, rewards, and new perspectives. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences (4th ed.) (pp. 1253-1260). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. -PDF

Kubota, J. T., & Ito, T. A. (2009).

You were always on my mind: How event-related brain potentials inform impression formation research. In T. D. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination (pp. 333-346). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Link to Amazon.

2008

Cloutier, J., Heatherton, T. F., Whalen, P. J., & Kelley, W. M. (2008).

Are attractive people rewarding? Sex differences in the neural substrates of facial attractiveness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 941-951. -PDF

Cloutier, J., Turk, D., & Macrae, C. N. (2008).

Extracting variant and invariant information from faces: The neural substrates of gaze detection and sex categorization. Social Neuroscience, 3, 69-78. -PDF

2007

Cloutier, J., & Macrae, C. N. (2007).

The feeling of choosing: Self-involvement and the cognitive status of things past. Consciousness & Cognition, 17, 125-135. -PDF

Kubota, J. T., & Ito, T. A. (2007).

Multiple cues in social perception: The time course of processing race and facial expression. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 738-752. -PDF

Cloutier, J., & Macrae, C. N. (2007).

Who or what are you?: Facial orientation and person construal. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 1298-1309. -PDF

2006

Amodio, D. M., Kubota, J. T., Harmon-Jones, E., & Devine, P. G. (2006).

Alternative mechanism for regulating racial responses according to internal versus external cues. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 26-36. -PDF

Mitchell, J. P., Cloutier, J., Banaji, M. R., & Macrae, C. N. (2006).

Medial prefrontal dissociations during processing of trait diagnostic and nondiagnostic person information. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 49-55. -PDF

Mason, M. F., Cloutier, J., & Macrae, C. N. (2006).

On construing others: Category and stereotype activation from facial cues. Social Cognition, 24, 540-562. -PDF

2005

Cloutier, J., Mason, M. F., & Macrae, C. N. (2005).

The perceptual determinants of person construal: Reopening the social-cognitive toolbox. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 885-894. -PDF