Colombatto, C., & Fleming, S. M. (2024). Folk psychological attributions of consciousness to large language models. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024, niae013.
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Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). Perceived gaze dynamics in social interactions can alter (and even reverse) the perceived temporal order of events. Cognition, 247, Article 105745, 1-8.
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Bhattacharyya, R., Colombatto, C., Fleming, S., Posner, I., & Hawes, N. (2023). Investigating the role of metacognition for joint decision-making in human-robot collaboration. AAAI 2023 Summer Symposium: Building Connections: From HumanHuman to Human-AI Collaboration.
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Colombatto, C., Everett, J. A. C., Senn, J., Maréchal, M. A., & Crockett, M. J. (2023). Vaccine nationalism counterintuitively erodes public trust in leaders. Psychological Science, 34, 1309-1321.
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Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Unconscious pupillometry: An effect of ‘attentional contagion’ in the absence of visual awareness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 302-308.
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Colombatto, C., Uddenberg, S., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). The efficiency of demography in face perception. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 3104-3117.
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Colombatto, C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Hidden intentions: Visual awareness prioritizes perceived attention even without eyes or faces. Cognition, 217, Article 104901, 1-7.
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^*Everett, J. A. C, ^*Colombatto, C., Awad, E., Boggio, P., Bos, B., Brady, W.J., Chawla, M., Chituc, V., Chung, D., Drupp, M.A., Goel, S., Grosskopf, B., Hjorth, F., Ji, A., Kealoha, C., Kim, J.S., Lin, Y., Ma, Y., Maréchal, M.A., Mancinelli, F., Mathys, C., Olsen, A.L., Pearce, G., Prosser, A.M.B., Reggev, N., Sabin, N., Senn, J., Shin, Y.S., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Sjastad, H., Strick, M., Sul, S., Tummers, L., Turner, M., Yu, H., Zoh, Y., & Crockett, M. J. (2021). Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis. Nature Human Behavior, 5, 1074–1088.
^*Equal Contribution
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Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Gaze deflection reveals how gaze cueing is tuned to extract the mind behind the eyes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 19825-19829.
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Colombatto, C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Gazing without eyes: A 'stare-in-the-crowd' effect induced by simple geometric shapes. Perception, 49, 782-792.
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Colombatto, C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). Intentionally distracting: Working memory is disrupted by the perception of other agents attending to you -- even without eye-gaze cues. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 951-957.
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Chen, Y. -C., Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Looking into the future: An inward bias in aesthetic experience driven only by gaze cues. Cognition, 176, 209-214.
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Colombatto, C., & McCarthy, G. (2017). The effects of face inversion and face race on the P100 ERP. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29, 664-676.
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Colombatto, C., Conway, P., De Brigard, F., Hofmann, W., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Stanley, M. L., Yu, H., & Crockett, M. J. (under revision). Motivated abstraction of personal transgressions in moral narratives.

Colombatto, C., Capozzi, F., Fratino, V., & Ristic, J. (under revision). A perceptual advantage for social groups.

^*Kim, J. S., ^*Colombatto, C., & Crockett, M. J. (under revision). Goal inference in moral narratives.
^*Equal Contribution
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Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). Foundations of social perception: Eye contact or ‘mind contact’?

Colombatto, C., & Fleming, S. M. (under review). Illusions of confidence in artificial systems.
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Yan, L., Colombatto, C., & Ristic, J. (under review). Enhanced perception of facing social groups reflects optimal interactive group size.

Colombatto, C., Crockett, M. J., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). ‘Perceptual ageism’: Distinct trajectories of first impressions from faces across their lifespan.

Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (in preparation). Attending to attention: Reverse correlation reveals how we perceive attentiveness in other people’s faces.

Colombatto, C., & Crockett, M. J. (in preparation). Immoral behavior generates higher disagreement in collective moral impressions.

Colombatto, C., & Fleming, S. M. (in preparation). Metacognition as a key dimension in social perception.

Colombatto, C., McCrackin, S. D., Scholl, B. J., & Ristic, J. (in preparation). Pupil dilation widens the perceived cone of direct gaze.

Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). Attending to attention: Reverse correlation reveals how we perceive attentiveness in other people's faces. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment, Niagara Falls, ON, CA.

Ristic, J., Yan, L., & Colombatto, C. (2023). Social perceptual grouping is sensitive to group size. Talk given at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception, Paphos, Cyprus.

Colombatto, C., & Fleming, S. M. (2023). Illusions of confidence in artificial systems. Poster presented at the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Oxford, UK.

Yan, L., Colombatto, C., & Ristic, J. (2023). Perceptual grouping of social interactions is sensitive to group size. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada.

Colombatto, C., & Fleming, S. M. (2023). Inferring metacognition in humans and machines. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness, New York, NY.

Colombatto, C., & Fleming, S. M. (2023). Illusions of confidence in the advice of artificial systems. Talk given at the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite of the Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness, New York, NY.

Ristic, J., Colombatto, C., & Yan, L. (2023). From dyads to crowds: Perceptual unity of group interactions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
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Colombatto, C., Guo, Y. Y. L., Scholl, B. J., & Ristic, J. (2022). Pupil size modulates gaze cueing. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, online.

McCrackin, S. D., Colombatto, C., Fratino, V., Scholl, B. J., & Ristic, J. (2022). Pupil dilation widens the perceived cone of direct gaze. Talk to be given at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, online.

Ristic, J., Colombatto, C., & Fratino, V. (2022). Perceptual grouping of social interactions: From dyads to triads. Talk to be given at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, online.

Crockett, M. J., Colombatto, C., & Chawla, M. (2022). Immoral behavior generates higher disagreement in collective moral impressions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Milan, Italy.

Colombatto, C., & Crockett, M. J. (2022). Motivated obfuscation of moral transgressions in natural language. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Milan, Italy.

Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Attending to attention: Reverse correlation reveals how we perceive attentiveness in other people’s faces. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Fu, S., Chen, Y. -C., Colombatto, C., & Lu, H. (2022). Visual impressions of social avoidance from moving shapes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Fratino, V., Colombatto, C., & Ristic, J. (2022). From dyads to triads: Perceptual unity of social groups. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, online.

Colombatto, C., & Crockett, M. J. (2022). Linguistic obfuscation of reality in narratives of moral transgressions. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

Fratino, V., Colombatto, C., & Ristic, J. (2022). Two is company, three is a crowd: Perceptual unity of dyads and small groups. Talk given at the annual Harvard Women in Psychology Trends in Psychology Summit, online.

Colombatto, C., Kim, J. S., Rodriguez, D., & Crockett, M. J. (2021). I see where you are going: Perception of persuasion goals in moral narratives influences character impressions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Sciences Society, online.

Crockett, M. J., Kim, J. S., & Colombatto, C. (2021). Competing goals in the construction and perception of moral narratives. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, online.

Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). From eyes to minds: Perceiving perception, and attending to attention? Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, online.

Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Gazing to look vs. gazing to think: Gaze cueing is modulated by the perception of others' external vs. internal attention. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, online.
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Lopez-Brau, M., Colombatto, C., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Attentional prioritization for historical traces of agency. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, online.
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Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Observed gaze dynamics in social interactions alter the perceived temporal order of events. Talk given at the annual Object Perception, Attention, & Memory meeting, online.

Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Eyes vs. minds: A Janus-like manipulation reveals that perceived intentionality boosts gaze cueing. Poster accepted at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, online.

Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). Unconscious attentional contagion: Faster breakthrough into awareness for faces with dilated pupils. Poster presented at the annual Object Perception, Attention, & Memory meeting, Montréal, Québec, CA.

Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). Unconscious pupillometry: Faces with dilated pupils gain preferential access to visual awareness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
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Uddenberg, S., Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). The speed of demography in face perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
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Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Illusions of morality: Visual impressions of causality override overt judgment in moral decision making. Talk given at the annual European Conference on Visual Perception, Trieste, Italy.

Chen, Y. -C., Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Looking into the future: An inward bias in aesthetic experience driven only by gaze cues. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
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Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Gaze cueing is tuned to extract the mind behind the gaze: Investigations of ‘gaze deflection’. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
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Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Gaze cueing is tuned to extract the mind behind the gaze: Investigations of ‘gaze deflection’. Poster presented at the annual European Conference on Visual Perception, Berlin, Germany.

Colombatto, C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). ‘Mind contact’: Might eye-gaze effects actually reflect more general phenomena of perceived attention and intention? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
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Colombatto, C., McCarthy, G. (2017). Face processing at 100 ms: the effects of race and configuration. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Colombatto, C. (2014). I'll do what you think we should do: Pronouns and the construction of the tutoring community. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Writing Center Association, Greenville, NC.

Russell, V. & Colombatto, C. (2013). We deliver!: The multi-modal medium is the message. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Writing Center Association, Fort Lauderdale, FL.