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Kurt Hugenberg

Neuroscience · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2003
Face Recognition and PerceptionEvolutionary Psychology and Human BehaviorSocial and Intergroup PsychologyPsychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentCultural Differences and Values

Publications

205

Citations

8,866

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

24

Publishing since 2003

Research summary
AI-generated

Kurt Hugenberg studies how people perceive and categorize faces and social groups, including how stereotypes, prejudice, and biases shape judgments of others' traits, warmth, competence, and even humanity. Recent work extends these questions to technology, examining how people perceive robots and AI-generated faces, and how facial-analysis algorithms and security systems can carry biases related to race and gender. The research combines social psychology with applied questions about fairness in emerging technologies.

Face perception and recognitionSocial categorization and stereotypingPrejudice, bias, and dehumanizationPerception of robots and AIBias in facial-analysis algorithms and privacy

Publication activity has been fairly steady over the past decade, averaging about eight papers per year in recent years with year-to-year fluctuations.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

No award with a current end date on record.

6 earlier awards
  • NSF 2215153Sep 2022 – Apr 2025 · $500k awarded

    The Racialized Basis of Trait Judgments from Faces

  • NSF 1748461Sep 2018 – Aug 2022 · $392k awarded

    Functional Mind

  • NSF 1903242Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 · $32k awarded

    Configural Face Processing and Prejudice Regulation

  • NSF 1423765Sep 2014 – Dec 2018 · $506k awarded

    Configural Face Processing and Prejudice Regulation

  • NSF 0951463Oct 2010 – Sep 2014 · $200k awarded

    The Motivated Origins of the Cross Race Effect

  • NSF 0642525Feb 2007 – Jan 2011 · $183k awarded

    The Social-Cognitive Origins of the Cross Race Effect

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 575 mid career Neuroscience PIs within our index
Citations: 8,866cohort median 670
h-index: 47cohort median 12
Publications / year (recent): 8.4cohort median 2.6

Typically publishes in teams of ~4 · 35% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 37 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 8.4/year recently
2017: 14 publications14172018: 4 publications182019: 4 publications192020: 7 publications202021: 14 publications14212022: 12 publications222023: 10 publications232024: 7 publications242025: 10 publications252026: 3 publications26
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 1 collaborator at the same institution2020: 0 collaborators at the same institution2021: 2 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 1 collaborator at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 8 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin×10
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology×9
  • Social Cognition×5
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology×4
  • Emotion×4
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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