Research Handbook on Social Judgment

Edited by Justin F. Landy, Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Nova Southeastern University, USA

‘From morality and mental states to group stereotypes, courtroom verdicts, animals, brands, and AI, this Handbook shows just how wide the science of social judgment has become. Its extraordinary breadth makes it an indispensable guide to the field.’

• Contents1 Introduction: The present and future of social judgment research 1Justin F. LandyPART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS2 The development of social judgment: Understanding others in the contextof groups 13Lisa Chalik3 Neuroscientific methods in social judgment research: From static snapshotsto dynamic processes 29Peter Mende-Siedlecki and Leor M. Hackel4 On the value of exploratory methods in social judgment research 62Justin F. Landy and Kaylee E. HamblenPART II JUDGMENTS OF OTHERS: PERSONALITIES, SKILLS, AND IDENTITIES5 Social judgment as a comparative process 75Katja Corcoran6 What’s in a name? The impact of mind salience on legal decision making 91Haya AlAssaf and Lasana T. Harris7 Content dimensions of person perception: Morality takes the lead (oversociability and competence) 109Simone Mattavelli and Marco BrambillaPART III JUDGMENTS OF OTHERS: MORALITY8 Varieties of moral judgment: Thick and thin 125William Jiménez-Leal and Sergio Barbosa9 Egocentric biases in moral judgments of character and behavior 139Konrad Bocian10 The what, how, and why of moral character judgments 158Justin F. Landy and Katherine L. Adriazola11 Mental states: When they matter to moral judgments and when they don’t 172Tom R. Kupfer, Daniel M. T. Fessler, Juan P. Arroyave, Christopher S.Kovel, Alex Lambert, Carlton Patrick, Harry Purser, and Paul TroopPART IV SOCIAL JUDGMENTS OF GROUPS12 Group stereotypes: Their content, importance, correlation, and impact 194Alex Koch, Johanna Woitzel, Russell Roberts, Austin Smith, and Paul Connor13 Measuring bias in intergroup judgment 211Eliane Roy and Jordan R. Axt14 How “real” are we? Judging ingroup entitativity 228William J. Bingley and Katharine H. GreenawayPART V SOCIAL JUDGMENTS OF NONHUMAN TARGETS15 Folk judgments of animal moral standing 245Jared Piazza16 Brands as notable targets of social perception 272Mansur Khamitov and Nicolas Kervyn17 Artificial intelligence, artificial impressions? AI, social judgment, andhuman–machine communication 285Austin J. Beattie and Riley J. RichardsPART VI SOCIAL JUDGMENTS IN APPLIED DOMAINS18 Making sense of giving cents: Social evaluations in charitable giving 304Kristina K. Castaneto and Lara B. Aknin19 Social judgments of credibility and guilt in the criminal justice system 317Alexander D. Perry, Amelia Mindthoff, and Christian A. Meissner