Social Perception and Cognition

Marco Brambilla

Marco Brambilla is Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Director of the Social Perception and Cognition Lab. He received his MSc in Psychology from the University of Milano-Bicocca and his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Bologna.

Broadly, his research focuses on social perception, social cognition, and intergroup relations. Specifically, most of his work examines the role of morality in the impression-formation process and in shaping person perception, stereotypes, prejudice, and emotions. He additionally examines how we use facial cues to form impressions of others and how stereotypes and prejudice affect social behavior.

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Research

Moral character in person and group perception

Face perception

Social categorization, stereotyping, and prejudice

Recent papers

Mattavelli, S., Masi, M., & Brambilla, M. (in press). Not just about faces in context: Face-context relation moderates the impact of contextual threat on facial trustworthiness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Masi, M., Mattavelli, S., Fasoli, F., & Brambilla, M. (in press). Cross-modal impression updating: Dynamic impression updating from face to voice and the other way around. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Frisanco, A., Biella, M., Brambilla, M., & Kret, M.E. (in press). All that meets the eye: The contribution of reward processing and pupil mimicry on pupillary reactions to facial trustworthiness. Current Psychology.

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Cuadrado, I., Lopez-Rodriguez, L., Brambilla, M., & Ordóñez Carrasco, J.L. (in press). Active and passive facilitation tendencies at work towards sexy and professional women: The role of stereotypes and emotions. Psychological Reports.