Awad, E., Colombatto, C., Demaree-Cotton, J., Earp, B. D., Everett, J. A. C., Liu, P., Schaefer, G. O., Singh, I., Wilkinson, D., & Savulescu, J. (in press). Public perceptions of polygenic testing and embryo selection for non-medical traits. Nature Human Behaviour. [pdf] [data & code]

Colombatto, C. (2026). Public beliefs about AI sentience. In C. Chace & T. Lappas (Eds.), Perspectives on Machine Consciousness (pp. 233-239). Chapman and Hall/CRC.

Colombatto, C., & Fleming, S. M. (2026). Beliefs about accuracy shape confidence attributions to humans and artificial agents. Communications Psychology, 4, Article 114, 1–15. [pdf] [data & code]

Yan, L., Colombatto, C., & Ristic, J. (2026). Perceptual grouping of individuals in social triads. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 88, Article 60, 1–8. [pdf] [data & code] [supplement]

Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2025). Attending to attention: Reverse correlation reveals subtle cues to attentiveness in others’ faces. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32, 3176–3184. [pdf] [data & code] [preregistration]

Colombatto, C., Birch, J., & Fleming, S. M. (2025). The influence of mental state attributions on trust in Large Language Models. Communications Psychology, 3, Article 84. [pdf] [data & code]

Colombatto, C., Capozzi, F., Fratino, V., & Ristic, J. (2025). A perceptual advantage for social groups in interactive configurations. Visual Cognition, 32, 574–585. [pdf] [data & code]

*Nguyen, D-A., *Bhattacharyya, R., Colombatto, C., Fleming, S., Posner, I., & Hawes, N. (2025). Group decision-making in robot teleoperation: Two heads are better than one. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. [pdf]

Yan, L., Colombatto, C., & Ristic, J. (2024). Search advantages for facing social groups reflect optimal interactive group sizes. iScience, 27, Article 111105. [pdf] [data & code]

*Kim, J. S., *Colombatto, C., & Crockett, M. J. (2024). Goal inference in moral narratives. Cognition, 251, Article 105865, 1-12. [pdf] [data & code]

Colombatto, C., & Fleming, S. M. (2024). Folk psychological attributions of consciousness to large language models. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024, niae013. [pdf] [data & code]

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. [pdf] [pre-registrations] [demos]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf] [data & code]

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. [pdf] [data] [pre-registrations]

Colombatto, C., Uddenberg, S., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). The efficiency of demography in face perception. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 3104-3117. [pdf] [pre-registrations] [supplement]

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. [pdf]

*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. [pdf] [data & code] [supplement]

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. [pdf] [demo] [supplement]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf] [demo]

Colombatto, C., & McCarthy, G. (2017). The effects of face inversion and face race on the P100 ERP. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29, 664-676. [pdf]

Simpson, C., & Colombatto, C. (in revision). The appearance of mind: Folk attributions of cognitive capacities to large language models.

Colombatto, C., & Fleming, S. M. (in revision). Perceiving others’ metacognition: The role of metacognitive sensitivity in competence impressions.

Colombatto, C., Conway, P., De Brigard, F., Hofmann, W., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Stanley, M. L., Yu, H., & Crockett, M. J. (in revision). Motivated abstraction of personal transgressions in moral narratives.

Yan, L., Colombatto, C., & Ristic, J. (in revision). Close encounters: Interpersonal distance shapes social group perception.

Rebello, K., Rasouli, S., Colombatto, C., Fernandes, N., Nehaniv, C. L., & Dautenhahn, K. (in revision). A little less mimicry, a little more empathy: Modeling robot empathic responses for human-robot interaction.

*Huang, Y., *van Dijk-Allen, M., Smilek, D., & Colombatto, C. (under review). Intuitive theories of attention.

Colombatto, C., & Fleming, S. M. (under review). Metacognition and self-awareness in humans and machines.

Hussain, L., & Colombatto, C. (under review). When attention turns to you: How eye contact alters subjective time duration.

Simpson, C., Colombatto, C., & Fugelsang, J. A. (under review). Trusting the machine: How anthropomorphism impacts epistemic trust in generative AI.

Cesarini, D., Brown, D. F., Rehren, P., Simmons, C., Colombatto, C., Zong, C., Crockett, M. J., Huettel, S. A., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (under review). Everyday moral stories evoke different cognitive processes than traditional academic vignettes.

Yeung, M., Colombatto, C., & Risko, E. F. (under review). How the relation between accuracy and difficulty shapes perceived task competence.

Yan, C., Farquharson, E., Patient, C., Fleming, S. M., & Colombatto, C. (submitted). Individual differences in social cognition predict attributions of consciousness to AI.

Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (submitted). ‘Mind contact’: Perceptual roots of social cognition.

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

Colombatto, C., Rintel, S., & Tankelevitch, L. (submitted). Metacognition and confidence dynamics in advice-taking from Generative AI.

Colombatto, C. (in preparation). Vision and Mentalising. Elements in Perception, Cambridge University Press.

Colombatto, C., Wu, B., Albini, A., Nygren, M., Berthouze, N., Maiolino, P., & Fleming, S. M. (in preparation). Metacognition in motion: Action force as an implicit marker of confidence.

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

*Everett, J. A. C., *Colombatto, C., …, & Crockett, M. J. (in preparation). Moral dilemmas: from theory to practice.