Social Psychology Network

Maintained by Scott Plous, Wesleyan University

Nicholas Rule

Nicholas Rule

  • Media Contact
  • SPN Mentor

Nicholas Rule is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Social Perception and Cognition. He completed his doctoral training in 2010 at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, under the mentorship of Nalini Ambady. Prior to that, he did his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he worked with Neil Macrae.

He has been the recipient of a number of awards, including a Canada Research Chair-Tier II award, the Sage Young Scholar Award, and early career awards from the International Social Cognition Network, International Academy for Intercultural Research, and government of Ontario, Canada. His research broadly covers the areas of social perception and social cognition, specifically person perception, person construal, and social categorization. He utilizes a diverse variety of tools and methods in his research, ranging from micro-level studies of brain function with fMRI to large cross-cultural comparisons across nations. Some of his specific research foci have been the study of perceptually ambiguous groups (social groups whose markers are not visually or perceptually obvious; e.g., sexual orientation, religious ideology, political affiliation), predicting outcomes based on appearance and nonverbal cues (particularly those manifest in the face), and cross-cultural differences in perception, cognition, and social behavior.

Primary Interests:

  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
  • Nonverbal Behavior
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Person Perception
  • Personality, Individual Differences
  • Political Psychology
  • Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
  • Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Note from the Network: The holder of this profile has certified having all necessary rights, licenses, and authorization to post the files listed below. Visitors are welcome to copy or use any files for noncommercial or journalistic purposes provided they credit the profile holder and cite this page as the source.

Image Gallery

Journal Articles:

Courses Taught:

  • Cultural Psychology
  • Current Topics in Social Psychology
  • Individual Differences Laboratory
  • Meta-Analysis and Advanced Statistics
  • Nonverbal Behavior
  • Person Perception

Nicholas Rule
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
Canada

  • Phone: (416) 978-3948
  • Fax: (416) 978-4811

Send a message to Nicholas Rule

Note: You will be emailed a copy of your message.

Psychology Headlines

From Around the World

News Feed (35,797 subscribers)