Nicholas Rule
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Dr. Nicholas Rule is Professor of Psychology and presently serves as the Vice-Provost, Academic Programs at the University of Toronto. He completed Ph.D. and M.S. degrees at Tufts University and an A.B. at Dartmouth College.
Formerly a Tier-II Canada Research Chair, Dr. Rule has received a number of awards, including early career awards from the International Social Cognition Network, the International Academy for Intercultural Research, the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Ontario, as well as the Sage Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology. He formerly served as Acting Chair of the Psychology Department, as Interim Vice-Dean, Undergraduate in the Faculty of Arts & Science, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Primary Interests:
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
- Nonverbal Behavior
- Organizational Behavior
- Person Perception
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Political Psychology
- Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
- Social Cognition
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Facial Cues Prediction Theory
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11:50 Facial Cues Prediction Theory
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8:53 The Eyebrows of Narcissists
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Part of the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize Lecture Series
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42:37 Interview with Nicholas Rule, University of Toronto Mississauga Vice-Principal Academic and Dean
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Interview with Professor of Psychology Nicholas Rule, University of Toronto Mississauga Vice-Principal Academic and Dean (part of the VIEW to the U podcast)
Journal Articles:
- Adams, R. B., Jr., Franklin, R. G., Jr., Rule, N. O., Freeman, J. B., Kveraga, K., Hadjikhani, N., Yoshikawa, S., & Ambady, N. (2010). Culture, gaze, and the neural processing of fear expressions. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 5, 340-348.
- Alaei, R., Deska, J. C., Hugenberg, K., & Rule, N. O. (2022). People attribute humanness to men and women differently based on their facial appearance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123, 400-422.
- Alaei, R., Rule, N. O., & MacDonald, G. (2022). Individuals’ favorite songs’ lyrics reflect their attachment style. Personal Relationships, 29(4), 778-794.
- Alley, Z. M., Kerr, D. C. R., Wilson, J. P., & Rule, N. O. (2023). Relating facial trustworthiness to antisocial behavior in adolescent and adult men. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 47(3), 385-402.
- Bjornsdottir, R. T., Cheso, D., & Rule, N. O. (2022). Beyond categories: Perceiving sexual attraction from faces. British Journal of Psychology, 113, 226-247.
- Bjornsdottir, R. T., Hehman, E., Agboh, D., & Rule, N. O. (2022). Parsing the mechanisms underlying ingroup facial resemblance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48, 782-792.
- Chow, J. K., Rhodes, S., Rule, N. O., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Hasher, L. (2022). Absence of a mere-exposure effect in older and younger adults. Psychology and Aging, 37, 742-748.
- Deska, J. C., Tian, L., & Rule, N. O. (2024). Nonverbal facial cues signaling sexually transmitted infections cause dehumanization and discrimination. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 6, 100178.
- Freeman, J. B., Rule, N. O., Adams, R. B., Jr., & Ambady, N. (2009). Culture shapes a mesolimbic response to human signals of dominance and subordination that associates with behavior. NeuroImage, 47, 353-359.
- Kleiman, S., & Rule, N. O. (2013). Detecting suicidality from facial appearance. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 453-360.
- Rule, N. O., Adams, R. B., Jr., Ambady, N., & Freeman, J. B. (2012). Perceptions of dominance following glimpses of faces and bodies. Perception, 41, 687-706.
- Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N. (2011). Judgments of power from college yearbook photos and later career success. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 154-158.
- Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N. (2010). Democrats and Republicans can be differentiated from their faces. PLoS ONE, 5, e8733.
- 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.
- Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N. (2008). The face of success: Inferences from Chief Executive Officers’ appearance predict company profits. Psychological Science, 19, 109-111.
- 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.
- Rule, N. O., Ambady, N., Adams, R. B., Jr., Ozono, H., Nakashima, S., Yoshikawa, S., & Watabe, M. (2010). Polling the face: Prediction and consensus across cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 1-15.
- Rule, N. O., Garrett, J. V., & Ambady, N. (2010). Places and faces: Geographic environment influences the ingroup memory advantage. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 343-355.
- Rule, N. O., Ishii, K., Ambady, N., Rosen, K. S., & Hallett, K. C. (2011). Found in translation: Cross-cultural consensus in the accurate categorization of male sexual orientation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1449-1507.
- Rule, N. O., Krendl, A. C., Ivcevic, Z., & Ambady, N. (2013). Accuracy and consensus in judgments of trustworthiness from faces: Behavioral and neural correlates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 409-426.
- Rule, N. O., Macrae, C. N., & Ambady, N. (2009). Ambiguous group membership is extracted automatically from faces. Psychological Science, 20, 441-443.
- Rule, N. O., Moran, J. M., Freeman, J. B., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Ambady, N. (2011). Face value: Amygdala response reflects the validity of first impressions. NeuroImage, 54, 734-741.
- Rule, N. O., Slepian, M. L., & Ambady, N. (2012). A memory advantage for untrustworthy faces. Cognition, 125, 207-218.
- Rule, N. O., Tskhay, K. O., Freeman, J. B., & Ambady, N. (2014). On the interactive influence of facial appearance and explicit knowledge in social categorization. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 529-535.
- Schwartzman, E., Alaei, R., & Rule, N. O. (2023). Accuracy and consistency in social categorization across context, motivation, and time. Social Cognition, 41(2), 103-136.
- Stern, C., West, T. V., Jost, J. T., & Rule, N. O. (2013). The politics of gaydar: Ideological differences in the use of gendered cues in categorizing sexual orientation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 520-541.
- Tskhay, K. O., & Rule, N. O. (2013). Accuracy in categorizing perceptually ambiguous groups: A review and meta-analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17, 72-86.
- Tskhay, K. O., Xu, H., & Rule, N. O. (2014). Perceptions of leadership success from nonverbal cues communicated by orchestra conductors. The Leadership Quarterly, 25, 901-911.
- Witkower, Z., Rule, N. O., & Tracy, J. L. (2023). Emotions do reliably co-occur with predicted facial signals: Comment on Durán and Fernandez-Dols (2021). Emotion, 23(3), 903-907.
Other Publications:
- Schwartzman, E., & Rule, N.O. (2023). How social, emotional, and motivational forces affect facial appearance over time. In Kleck, R. E., Adams, R. B., & Hess, U. (Eds.), Emotion Communication by the Aging Face and Body: A Multidisciplinary View. Cambridge University Press.
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
