Political partisanship and perceived partisan threat relate to simple trust decisions
Cassidy, B. S., Rasool, J., Smitherman, I. W., Park, B., & Seaman, K. L. (2026)
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 11(1), 1
Publications
Our publications
49 peer-reviewed articles, 2009–2026
2026
2025
Unpacking anti-transgender bias: Leveraging mechanisms from person perception
**Liebenow, H. A., & Cassidy, B. S. (2025)
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 19(5), e70059
2024
Femininity is favorable: Sexually dimorphic facial features affect assessments of White women's leadership abilities
**Liebenow, H. A., Boucher, K. L., & Cassidy, B. S. (2024)
Social Cognition, 42(5), 376–414
A response time model of the three-choice Mnemonic Similarity Task provides stable, mechanistically interpretable individual-difference measures
Banavar, N. V., Noh, S. M., Wahlheim, C. N., Cassidy, B. S., Kirwan, C. B., Stark, C. E. L., & Bornstein, A. M. (2024)
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18, 1379287
Contextual effects on attributing minds to older adults
Cassidy, B. S., & **Ojeda, J. T. (2024)
Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 6, 100195
Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features
**Liebenow, H. A., Boucher, K. L., & Cassidy, B. S. (2024)
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 111, 104585
2023
Attractiveness differentially affects direct versus indirect face evaluations in two cultures
Cassidy, B. S., Saribay, S. A., Yüksel, H., & Kleisner, K. (2023)
Evolutionary Psychology, 21(3), 14747049231186119
Perceiver and target partisanship shift facial trustworthiness effects on likability
*+Malloy, C. S., Hughes, C., & +Cassidy, B. S. (2023)
Scientific Reports, 13(1), 6130
Age-related differences in the social associative learning of trust information
Seaman, K. L., Christensen, A. P., *Senn, K. D., Cooper, J. A., & Cassidy, B. S. (2023)
Neurobiology of Aging, 125, 32–40
2022
Disclosing political partisanship polarizes first impressions of faces
+Cassidy, B. S., +Hughes, C., & Krendl, A. C. (2022)
PLoS ONE, 17(11), e0276400
Understanding evaluations of Kamala Harris in 2020: Political ideology qualifies perceived communality effects when communal cues are present
**Liebenow, H. A., Boucher, K. L., & Cassidy, B. S. (2022)
Psychology of Women Quarterly, 46(4), 399–419
Mental representations of sickness positively relate to adaptive health behaviors
**+Ojeda, J. T., Silvia, P. J., & +Cassidy, B. S. (2022)
Evolutionary Psychology, 20(3), 14747049221109452
Inversion reduces sensitivity to complex emotions in eye regions
Cassidy, B. S., Wiley, R. W., Sim, M., & Hugenberg, K. (2022)
Social Cognition, 40(3), 302–315
Decoding complex emotions and humanization show related face processing effects
Cassidy, B. S., Wiley, R. W., Sim, M., & Hugenberg, K. (2022)
Emotion, 22(2), 362–373
Intrinsic functional connectivity in the default mode network predicts mnemonic discrimination: A connectome-based modeling approach
Wahlheim, C. N., Christensen, A. P., Reagh, Z. M., & Cassidy, B. S. (2022)
Hippocampus, 32(1), 21–37
2021
Spatial frequency and valence interact in complex emotion perception
Cassidy, B. S., Wiley, R. W., Sim, M., & Hugenberg, K. (2021)
Cognition and Emotion, 35(8), 1618–1625
Feminine perceptions of Kamala Harris positively relate to evaluations of her candidacy
Cassidy, B. S., & **Liebenow, H. A. (2021)
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 21(1), 29–50
A stronger relationship between reward responsivity and trustworthiness evaluations emerges in healthy aging
+Cassidy, B. S., +Hughes, C., & Krendl, A. C. (2021)
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 28(5), 669–686
Age differences in neural activity related to mentalizing during person perception
+Cassidy, B. S., +Hughes, C., & Krendl, A. C. (2021)
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 28(1), 143–160
2020
Valenced appearance-behavior cues affect the extent of impression memory
Cassidy, B. S. (2020)
Memory, 28(5), 642–654
Aging relates to a disproportionately weaker functional architecture of brain networks during rest and task states
Hughes, C., Faskowitz, J., Cassidy, B. S., Sporns, O., & Krendl, A. C. (2020)
NeuroImage, 209, 116521
Effects of executive ability on bias and ingroup perceptions in aging
Cassidy, B. S., Hughes, C., *Lanie, S. T., & Krendl, A. C. (2020)
Psychology and Aging, 35(2), 283–294
2019
Individual differences correspond with attention to the eyes of White versus Black faces
Cassidy, B. S., Harding, S. M., *Hsu, K. Y., & Krendl, A. C. (2019)
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 43(4), 435–449
A crisis of competence: Benevolent sexism affects evaluations of women's competence
Cassidy, B. S., & Krendl, A. C. (2019)
Sex Roles, 81(7), 505–520
Age differences in specific neural connections within the default mode network underlie theory of mind
+Hughes, C., +Cassidy, B. S., Faskowitz, J., Avena-Koenigsberger, A., Sporns, O., & Krendl, A. C. (2019)
NeuroImage, 191, 269–277
Age effects on trustworthiness activation and trust biases in face perception
Cassidy, B. S., Boucher, K. L., *Lanie, S. T., & Krendl, A. C. (2019)
The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 74(1), 87–92
2018
Believing is seeing: Arbitrary stigma labels affect the visual representation of faces
Cassidy, B. S., & Krendl, A. C. (2018)
Social Cognition, 36(4), 381–410
2017
Neural response to evaluating depression predicts perceivers' mental health treatment recommendations
Krendl, A. C., & Cassidy, B. S. (2017)
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 17(6), 1084–1097
Configural face processing impacts race disparities in humanization and trust
Cassidy, B. S., Krendl, A. C., Stanko, K. A., Rydell, R. J., Young, S. G., & Hugenberg, K. (2017)
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 111–124
Looking the part (to me): Effects of racial prototypicality on race perception vary by prejudice
Cassidy, B. S., *Sprout, G. T., Freeman, J. B., & Krendl, A. C. (2017)
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(4), 685–694
2016
Age and executive ability impact the neural correlates of race perception
Cassidy, B. S., Lee, E. J., & Krendl, A. C. (2016)
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(11), 1752–1761
Age differences in hippocampal activation during gist-based false recognition
Paige, L. E., Cassidy, B. S., Schacter, D. L., & Gutchess, A. H. (2016)
Neurobiology of Aging, 46, 76–83
Dynamic neural mechanisms underlie race disparities in social cognition
Cassidy, B. S., & Krendl, A. C. (2016)
NeuroImage, 132, 238–246
Similarity to the self influences cortical recruitment during impression formation
Leshikar, E. D., Cassidy, B. S., & Gutchess, A. H. (2016)
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 16(2), 302–314
Age effects in adaptive criterion learning
Cassidy, B. S., & Gutchess, A. H. (2016)
The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 71(6), 1015–1023
2015
Abnormalities in personal space and parietal–frontal function in schizophrenia
Holt, D. J., Boeke, E. A., Coombs, G., DeCross, S. N., Cassidy, B. S., Stufflebeam, S., Rauch, S. L., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2015)
NeuroImage: Clinical, 9, 233–243
Influences of appearance-behaviour congruity on memory and social judgements
Cassidy, B. S., & Gutchess, A. H. (2015)
Memory, 23(7), 1039–1055
Neural responses to appearance-behavior congruity
Cassidy, B. S., & Gutchess, A. H. (2015)
Social Cognition, 33(3), 211–226
Social influences on adaptive criterion learning
Cassidy, B. S., Dubé, C., & Gutchess, A. H. (2015)
Memory & Cognition, 43(5), 695–708
2014
Neural correlates of personal space intrusion
Holt, D. J., Cassidy, B. S., Yue, X., Rauch, S. L., Boeke, E. A., Nasr, S., Tootell, R. B. H., & Coombs, G. (2014)
The Journal of Neuroscience, 34(12), 4123–4134
Age differences in medial prefrontal activity for subsequent memory of truth value
Cassidy, B. S., Hedden, T., Yoon, C., & Gutchess, A. H. (2014)
Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 87
2013
Valence-based age differences in medial prefrontal activity during impression formation
Cassidy, B. S., Leshikar, E. D., Shih, J. Y., *Aizenman, A., & Gutchess, A. H. (2013)
Social Neuroscience, 8(5), 462–473
2012
Appearance-based inferences bias source memory
Cassidy, B. S., Zebrowitz, L. A., & Gutchess, A. H. (2012)
Memory & Cognition, 40(8), 1214–1224
Age-related changes to the neural correlates of social evaluation
Cassidy, B. S., Shih, J. Y., & Gutchess, A. H. (2012)
Social Neuroscience, 7(6), 552–564
Structural variation within the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex predicts memory for impressions in older adults
Cassidy, B. S., & Gutchess, A. H. (2012)
Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 319
Social relevance enhances memory for impressions in older adults
Cassidy, B. S., & Gutchess, A. H. (2012)
Memory, 20(4), 332–345
2011
An anterior-to-posterior shift in midline cortical activity in schizophrenia during self-reflection
Holt, D. J., Cassidy, B. S., Andrews-Hanna, J. R., Lee, S. M., Coombs, G., Goff, D. C., Gabrieli, J. D., & Moran, J. M. (2011)
Biological Psychiatry, 69(5), 415–423
Lower-level stimulus features strongly influence responses in the fusiform face area
Yue, X., Cassidy, B. S., Devaney, K. J., Holt, D. J., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2011)
Cerebral Cortex, 21(1), 35–47
2009
Extinction memory is impaired in schizophrenia
Holt, D. J., Lebron-Milad, K., Milad, M. R., Rauch, S. L., Pitman, R. K., Orr, S. P., Cassidy, B. S., Walsh, J. P., & Goff, D. C. (2009)
Biological Psychiatry, 65(6), 455–463