Journal Articles
McCrackin, S. D. & Ristic, J. (2024). Improving masked communication: The case for transparent masks. Frontiers in Communication. DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1371142
Yabesi, S., Amini, M., Ristic, J., & Sharafi, Z. (2024). Exploring the Effects of Urgency and Reputation in Code Review: An Eye-Tracking Study. 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2024), IEEE.
Ristic, J. (in press). Glimpses into the social mind: Decoding messages from faces and eyes. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Mayrand, F, Capozzi, F. & Ristic, J. (2023). A dual mobile eye tracking study on natural eye contact during live interaction. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 11385.
Ristic, J. & Capozzi, F. (2023). The role of visual and auditory information in social event segmentation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(3) , 626-638.
McCrackin, S. D., Mendell, E., Provencher, S. & Ristic, J. (2023). Decoding the silent language of the eyes: Occluding the eye region impacts understanding and sharing of emotions with others. Social Cognition, 41(4), 365-389.
McCrackin, S. D., Capozzi, F., Mayrand, F. & Ristic, J. (2023). Face masks impair basic emotion recognition: Group effects and individual variability. Social Psychology, 54(1-2), 4-15.
Lin, H., Ristic, J. Inzlicht, M & A. R. Otto. (2022). The average reward rate modulates behavioral and neural indices of effortful control allocation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(11), 2113-2126.
Ristic, J. & Capozzi, F. (2022). Mechanisms for individual, group, and crowd-based attention to social information. Nature Reviews Psychology. DOI: 10.1038/s44159-022-00118-z
McCrackin, S.D., Provencher, S., Mendell, E., & Ristic, J. (2022). Transparent masks facilitate understanding of emotional states but not sharing them with others. Cognitive Research Principles and Implications (CRPI), 7(1), 1-13.
Pereira, E. J., Birmingham, E. & Ristic, J. (2022). Social Attention as a General Mehcanism? Demonstrating the Influence of Stimulus Content Factors on Social Attentional Biasing. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 48(4), 289-311. https://doi.org/10/1037/xhp0000984
Pereira, E. J., Birmingham, E. & Ristic, J. (in press). Infrequent faces bias social attention differently in manual and oculomotor measures. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
Pereira, E. J., Birmingham, E. & Ristic, J. (in press). Social attention as a general mechanism? Demonstrating the influence of stimulus content factors on social attentional biasing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance.
Ristic, J. & Capozzi, F. (in press). Interactive Cognition: An Introduction. Visual Cognition.
McCrackin, S., Capozzi, F., Mendell, E., Provencher, S., Mayrand, F., Ristic, J. (2021). Recognition of emotions is affected by face masks. Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2153. DOI: 10.1167/jov.21.9.2153
Mayrand, F., McCrackin, S.D., Capozzi, F., Ristic, J. (2021). Both cue directionality and mental perspective contribute to social attention. Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2309. DOI: 10.1167/jov.21.9.2309
Capozzi, F., Ristic, J. (2021). Attentional gaze dynamics in group interactions. Visual Cognition, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2021.1925799
Latif, N., Human, L.J., Capozzi, F., Ristic J. (2021). Interpersonal Behavioral Coordination and Expressive Accuracy During First Impressions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1-6. DOI: 10.1177/19485506211011317
Capozzi, F., Bayliss, A., Ristic, J. (2021). Express: Standing out from the crowd: Both cue numerosity and social information affect attention in multi-agent contexts. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2021. DOI: 10.1177/17470218211013028.
Capozzi, F., Latif, N., Ponath, E., Ristic, J. (2020). Auditory and visual information affect social event segmentation differently. Journal of Vision, 20(11), 420. DOI: 10.1167/jov.20.11.420
Capozzi, F., Wahn, B., Ristic, J., Kingstone, A. (2020). Prior attentional bias is modulated by social gaze. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(1), 1-6. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-020-02194-w
Pereira, E.J., Birmingham, E., Ristic, J. (2020). The eyes do not have it after all? Attention is not automatically biased towards faces and eyes. Psychological Research, 84(5), 1407-1423. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1130-4
Capozzi, F., Wahn, B., Ristic, J., & Kingstone, A. (2020). Prior attentional bias is modulated by social gaze. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (2020), 1-6. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-020-02194-w
Pereira, E. J., Gurguryan, L., & Ristic, J. (2020). Trait-Level Variability in Attention Modulates Mind Wandering and Academic Achievement. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 909. DOI: 10.3389/fpsg.2020.00909
Capozzi, F. & Ristic, J. (2020) Attention AND mentalizing? Reframing a debate on social orienting of attention. Visual Cognition. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2020.1725206
Capozzi, F., Human, L. & Ristic, J. (2019). Attention promotes accurate impression formation. Journal of Personality. DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12509
Latif, N., Capozzi, F. & Ristic, J. (2019). Taking it out of context: The role of contextual coherence during social event segmentation. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 81 (6). DOI: 10.3758/s13414-019-01752-1
Capozzi, F., Beyan, C., Pierro, A., Koul, A., Murino, V., Livi, S., Bayliss, A. P., Ristic, J. & Becchio, C. (2019). Tracking the leader: Gaze behaviour in group interactions. iScience, 16, 242-249. DOI: 10.1016/j.sci.2019.05.035
Pereira, E. J., Birmingham, E. & Ristic, J. (2019). Contextually-based social attention diverges across covert and overt measures. Vision, 3 (29), 1-19. DOI: 10.3390/vision3020029.
Blair, C. D. & Ristic, J. (2019). Attention combines similarly in covert and overt conditions. Vision, 3 (2). DOI: 10.3390/vision3020016
Capozzi, F., Latif, N. & Ristic, J. (2019). It’s not all in the face: reduced face visibility does not modulate social segmentation. Visual Cognition, 27 (1), 38-45. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2019.1579774
Pereira, E. J., Birmingham, E. & Ristic, J. (2019). The eyes do not have it after all? Attention is not automatically biased towards faces and eyes. Psychological research, 16 (12), 1-17. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-018-1130-4
Capozzi, F., Bayliss, A. P. & Ristic, J. (2018). Gaze following in multiagent contexts: Evidence for a quorum-like principle. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25 (6), 2260-2266. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-018-1464-3
Hayward, D. A., Fenerci, C. & Ristic, J. (2018). An investigation of global-local processing bias in a large sample of typical individuals varying in autism traits. Consciousness and Cognition, 65, 271-279. DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.09.002
Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2018). Changes in tonic alertness but not voluntary temporal preparation modulate the attention elicited by task-relevant gaze and arrow cues. Vision, 2 (2), 18. DOI: 10.3390/vision2020018
Blair, C. D. & Ristic, J. (2018). Combined attention controls complex behaviour by suppressing unlikely events. Brain and Cognition, 120, 17-25. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2017.12.001
Capozzi, F. & Ristic, J. (2018). How attention gates social interactions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, advance online publication, (1426), 179-198. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13854
Blair, C. D., Capozzi, F. & Ristic, J. (2017). Where is your attention? Assessing individual instances of covert attention orienting in response to gaze and arrow cues. Vision, 1 (3), 19. DOI: 10.3390/vision1030019
Capozzi, F., Bayliss, A. & Ristic, J. (2017). The more, the better? It depends on consistency! Gaze cuing in multi-agent contexts. Journal of Vision, 17 (10), 686-686. DOI: 10.1167/17.10.966
Hayward, D. A., Pereira, E. J., Otto, A. R. & Ristic, J. (2017). Smile! Social reward drives attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44 (2), 206-214. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000459
Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2017). Feature-and motion-based gaze cuing is linked with reduced social competence. Scientific Reports, 7 (1). DOI: 10.1038/srep44221
Hayward, D. A., Voorhies, W., Morris, J. L., Capozzi, F. & Ristic, J. (2017). Staring reality in the face: A comparison of social attention across laboratory and real world measures suggests little common ground. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71 (3), 212-225. DOI: 101.1037/cep0000117
Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2016). Automated symbolic orienting is not modulated by explicit temporal attention. Acta Psychologica, 171, 93-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.10.004
Pereira, E. J., Gurguryan, L. & Ristic, J. (2016). Functional fractionation of the default mode network associated with real-world mind wandering behaviours. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 70 (4), 403-404.
Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2015). Exposing the cuing task: The case of gaze and arrow cues. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 77 (4), 1088-1104. DOI: 10.3758/s1314-015-0877-6.
Ristic, J. & Enns, J. T. (2015). Attentional Development. Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, 2, 1-45. DOI: 10.1002/9781118963418.childpsy205
Ristic, J. & Enns, J. T. (2015). The changing face of attentional development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24 (1), 24-31. DOI: 10.1177/0963721414551165
Boggia, J. & Ristic, J. (2015). Social event segmentation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68 (4), 731-744. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.964738
Ristic, J. & Landry, M. (2015). Combining attention: A novel way of conceptualizing links between attention, sensory processing, and complex behaviour. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 77 (1), 36-49. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0737-9
Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2013b). The uniqueness of social attention revisited: Working memory load interferes with endogenous by not social orienting. Experimental Brain Research, 231 (4), 405-414. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3705-z
Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2013a). Measuring attention using the Posner cuing paradigm: The role of across and within trial target probabilities. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7 (205). DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00205
Ristic, J., Landry, M. & Kingstone, A. (2012). Automated symbolic orienting: the missing link. Frontiers in Psychology, 3 (560). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00560
Hayward, D. A., Shore, D. I., Ristic, J., Kovshoff, H., Iarocci, G., Mottron, L. & Burack, A. (2012). Flexible visual processing in young adults with autism: the effect of implicit learning on global-local task. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42 (11), 2383-2392. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-012-1485-0
Ristic, J. & Kingstone, A. (2012). A new form of human spatial attention: Automated symbolic orienting. Visual Cognition, 20 (3), 244-264. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2012.658101
Ristic, J. & Fiesbrecht, B. (2011). Electrophysiological evidence for spatiotemporal flexibility in the ventrolateral attention network. Public Library of Science ONE, 6 (9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024436
Ristic, J. & Kingstone, A. (2009). Rethinking attentional development reflexive and volitional orienting in children and adults. Developmental Science, 12 (2), 289-296. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00756.x
Ristic, J., Wright, A. & Kingstone, A. (2007). Attentional control and reflexive orienting to gaze and arrow cues. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14 (5), 964-969. DOI: 10.3758/BF03194129
Ristic, J., Wright, A. & Kingstone, A. (2006). The number line effects reflects top-down control. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13 (5), 862-868. DOI: 10.3758/BF03194010
Ristic, J. & Kingstone, A. (2006). Attention to arrows: Pointing to a new direction. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59 (11), 1921-1930. DOI: 10.1080/17470210500416367
Ristic, J., Mottron, L., Friesen, C. K., Iarocci, G., Burack, A. J. & Kingstone, A. (2005). Eyes are special but not for everyone: The case of autism. Cognitive Brain Research, 24 (3), 715-718. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.02.007
Ristic, J. & Kingstone, A. (2005). Taking control of reflexive social attention. Cognition, 94 (3), B55-B65. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.04.005
Kingstone, A., Tipper, C., Ristic, J. & Ngan, E. (2004). The eyes have it!: An fMRI investigation. Brain and Cognition, 55 (2), 269-271. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2004.02.037
Friesen, C. K., Ristic, J. & Kingstone, A. (2004). Attentional effects of counterpredictive gaze and arrow cues. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30 (2), 319-329. DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.30.2.319
Kingstone, A., Smilek, D., Ristic, J., Friesen, C. K. & Eastwood, J. (2003). Attention Researchers! It’s time to look at the real world! Current Directions in Psychological Science, 12 (5), 176-184.
Ristic, J., Friesen, C. K., & Kingstone, A. (2002). Are eyes special? It depends on how you look at it. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9 (3), 507-513.
Published Abstracts
Ristic, J., Yan, L. & Colombatto, C. (2023). Social perceptual grouping is sensitive to group size. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Perception, 198.
Ristic, J., #Colombatto, C. & Yan, L. (2023). From dyads to crowds: Perceptual unity of group interactions. Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5536.
*VSS STUDENT travel AWARD* Fratino, V., Colombatto, C & Ristic, J. (2022). From dyads to triads: Perceptual unity of social groups. Journal of Vision, 22 (14), 4426.
Ristic, J. & McCrackin, S. D. (2022). Occluding face parts impairs human social communication. Journal of Vision, 22 (14), 3649.
McCrackin, S. D., Provencher, S, Mendell, E. & Ristic, J. (2022). Occluding the eye-region impacts inferring and sharing a face’s emotional state. Journal of Vision, 22 (14), 3672.
Mayrand, F., McCrackin, S. D. & Ristic, J. (2022). Gaze following from another’s perspective. Journal of Vision, 22 (14), 4426.
Pereira, E. J., & Ristic, J. (2022). Faces may not be special for attention after all. Journal of Vision, 22 (14), 4245.
Mayrand, F., McCrackin, S. D., Capozzi, F. & Ristic, J. (2021). Both cue directionality and mental perspective contribute to social attention. Journal of Vision, 21 (9), 2309.
McCrackin, S. D., Capozzi, F., Mendell, E., Provencher, S., Mayrand, F. & Ristic, J. (2021). Recognition of emotions is affected by face masks. Journal of Vision, 21 (9), 2153.
Capozzi, F., Latif, N., Ponath, E., & Ristic, J. (2020). Auditory and visual information affect social event segmentation differently. Journal of Vision 2020, 20 (11), 420. DOI: 10.1167/jov.20.11.420.
Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2019). What and where: The influence of attention on visual short-term memory for item and spatial location information, and the relationship to autism traits. Journal of Vision, 19 (10), 73d. DOI: 10.1167/19.10.73d
Pereira, E., Birmingham, E. & Ristic, J. (2018). Looking at faces is differentially modulated by context and novelty. Journal of Vision, 18 (10), 168. DOI: 10.1167/18.10.168
Latif, N., Capozzi, F. & Ristic, J. (2018). The role of perceptual and contextual information in social event segmentation. Journal of Vision, 18 (10), 447-447. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-019-01752-1
Capozzi, F. & Ristic, J. (2018). Looking at faces supports the segmentation of both social and nonsocial events. Journal of Vision, 18 (10), 1341-1341. DOI: 10.1167/18.10.1341
Capozzi, F., Bayliss, A. & Ristic, J. (2017). The more, the better? It depends on consistency! Gaze cuing in multi-agent contexts. Journal of Vision, 17 (10), 966. DOI: 10.1167/17.10.966
Blair, C. D., Capozzi, F. & Ristic, J. (2017). Where is your attention?: Estimating the frequency of gaze following in cuing task used a trail-by trial analysis. Journal of Vision, 17 (10), 686.
Blair, C. D. & Ristic, J. (2016). Effects of combined attention on early visual cortical processing: An ERP investigation. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70 (4), 354.
Pereira, E. J., Gurguryan, L. & Ristic, K. (2016). Functional fractionation of the default mode network is associated with real-world and mind wandering behaviours. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 70 (4), 403.
Gurguryan, L., Pereira, E. J., & Ristic, J. (2016). Wandering minds and dwindling grades: Temperament traits and academic performance predict rates of mind wandering. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimental, 70 (4), 374.
Vogel, T. & Ristic, J. (2016) Social working memory: Fact or fiction? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 70 (4), 423.
Hayward, D. A., Voorhies, W., Wong, S. & Ristic, J. (2015). Searching for social attention in real life social interactions. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 68 (4), 350.
Vogel, T. & Ristic, J. (2015). Remember me? Social working memory load affects social orienting. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 69 (4), 361.
Pereira, E. J., Gurguryan, L & Ristic, J. (2015). Controlling a wandering mind: Tasks dictate differences in estimates of mind wandering. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 69 (4), 361
Hayward, D. A., Meilleur, A., Seusan, L. A. & Ristic, J. (2015). Females search, males find: The effect of a distractor face on search depends on gender. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 69 (4), 327.
Hayward, D. A., Pereira, E. J., Vogel, T., Steward, K. E. & Ristic, J. (2015). What’s that smile worth? Social reward influences spatial orienting. Journal of Vision, 15 (12), 454. DOI: 10.1167/15.12.454
Seusan, L. A., Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2014). Eye tricked you: The effects of a distractor face on visual search. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 68 (4), 291.
Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2014). Dissociating attentional effects of gaze and arrow cues using the cuing task. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 68 (4), 255
Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2013). Social and temporal orienting: Linked or independent? Journal of Vision, 13 (9), 1129. (Best Student Poster Award).
Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2013). A gaze in the crowd: Social attention is resilient to perceptual load. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 67 (4), 274.
Landry, M. & Ristic, J. (2013). Two sides of the same coin? Combined in overt and covert attention. Perception, 42, 28
Landry, M. & Ristic, J. (2013). Combined attention: A novel way of conceptualizing the links between attention and behaviour. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 67 (4), 304.
Landry, M. & Ristic, J. (2012). Predictive arrows produce super additive effects in focal attention. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 66 (4), 296.
Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2012). Eye can’t help it: The irrevocable automaticity of social attention. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 66 (4), 279.
Birmingham, E., Riendeau, C. & Ristic, J. (2012). Selection of eyes in the dot probe paradigm: Evidence for left visual field specificity. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 66 (4), 295.
Landry, M. & Ristic, J. (2012). The influence of attentional interactions on perceptual processing. Journal of Vision, 12 (9), 673. DOI: 10.1167/12.9.673
Hayward, D. & Ristic, J. (2012). Alerting trumps space and time in social orienting. Journal of Vision, 12 (9), 569. DOI: 10.1167/12.9.569
Hayward, D. A., Pestonji, N. & Ristic, J. (2011). The effects of working memory on social attention. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 65 (4), 310. (Best Student Poster Award).
Cote-Lecaldare, M., Hayward, D. A. & Ristic, J. (2011). Timing is everything… or not? The effect of temporal expectancies on social attention. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 65 (4), 310.
Boggia, J. & Ristic, J. (2011). The role of social information in event segmentation. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 65 (4), 314.
Ristic, J. & Giesbrecht, B. (2010). Characterizing the nature of attention orienting elicited by the mental number line. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology- Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 64 (4), 287.
Sy, J., Ristic, J. & Giesbrecht, B. (2009). Top-down modulation of reflexive social orienting. Journal of Vision, 9 (8), 192. DOI: 10.1167/9.8.192
Ristic, J. & Giesbrecht, B. (2009). The role of the ventrolateral frontoparietal attention network in social attention. Journal of Vision, 9 (8), 102. DOI: 10.1167/9.8.102
Ristic, J., Bonura, B. M. & Giesbretch, B. (2008). (More) evidence that nonpredictive arrows elicit reflexive orienting: An ERP study. Journal of Vision, 8 (6), 780. DOI: 10.1167/8.6.780
Deaner, R. O., Shepherd, S. V., Ristic, J. & Platt, M. L. (2006). Familiarity accentuates gaze following in women but not men. Journal of Vision, 6 (6), 279. DOI: 10.1167/6.6.279
Ristic, J. & Kingstone, A. (2005). Eyes and arrows: Two sides of a same coin? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 151.
Coupland, N., Ristic, J. & Kingstone, A. (2005). Reflexive attention to gaze direction is separable from awareness of gaze direction in healthy brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 151
Ristic, J., Olk, B., Ho, S. & Kingstone, A. (2003). Endogenous orienting: What have we been measuring? Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, 10, 55.
Book Chapters
Ristic, J. & Enns, J. T. (2015). Attentional development. In Liben, L. S. and Mueller, U. (Eds.) Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, 7th Ed. Volume 2: Cognitive Processes. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.
Birmingham, E., Ristic, J. & Kingstone, A. (2012). Investigating social attention: A case for increasing stimulus complexity in the laboratory. In Burack, J. A., Enns, J. T. & Foz, N. A. (Eds.). Cognitive Neuroscience, Development, and Psychopathology, 251-276. New York: Oxford, University Press. (25 manuscript pages).
