Groups, teams, and collectives—people—are incredibly important to human behavior. People live in families, work in teams, and celebrate and mourn together in groups. Despite the huge variety of human group activity and its fundamental importance to human life, social-psychological research on person perception has overwhelmingly focused on its namesake, the person, rather than expanding to consider people perception. By looking to two unexpected partners, the vision sciences and organization behavior, we find emerging work that presents a path forward, building a foundation for understanding how people perceive other people. And yet this nascent field is missing critical insights that scholars of social vision might offer: specifically, for example, the chance to connect perception to behavior through the mediators of cognition and motivational processes. Here, we review emerging work across the vision and social sciences to extract core principles of people perception: efficiency, capacity, and complexity. We then consider complexity in more detail, focusing on how people perception modifies person-perception processes and enables the perception of group emergent properties as well as group dynamics. Finally, we use these principles to discuss findings and outline areas fruitful for future work. We hope that fellow scholars take up this people-perception call.

团体、团队和集体——人——对人类行为极其重要。人们生活在家庭中，团队合作，集体庆祝和哀悼。尽管人类群体活动的多样性及其对人类生活的根本重要性，但关于人的感知的社会心理学研究绝大多数都集中在其同名的人身上，而不是扩大到考虑人的感知。通过寻找两个意想不到的合作伙伴，视觉科学和组织行为，我们发现新兴工作提供了一条前进的道路，为理解人们如何看待他人奠定了基础。然而，这个新兴领域缺少社会视野学者可能提供的关键见解：具体来说，例如，通过认知和动机过程的中介将感知与行为联系起来的机会。这里，人的感知：效率、容量和复杂性。然后，我们更详细地考虑复杂性，重点关注人们的感知如何改变人的感知过程，并使人们能够感知群体涌现属性以及群体动态。最后，我们使用这些原则来讨论发现并概述对未来工作富有成效的领域。我们希望学者们能接受这个人们感知的号召。