He recently published an edited volume, The Science of Social Vision (Oxford, 2010), which heralds a newly burgeoning field of inquiry at the intersection of social psychology and visual cognition. He completed his B.A. in psychology at the University of Virginia in his hometown of Charlottesville, and completed his Ph.D. in experimental social psychology at Dartmouth College. He currently lives in Central Pennsylvania with his wife and two children. He has authored nearly 50 scholarly publications focused on human emotion and nonverbal communication.