we argue that the deflationary approach has been successful in illuminating how functionally specific processes for social perception can be subserved at least in part by domain-general processes, but that its potential to contribute to ongoing research has been limited by an artificial dichotomy between domain-general and domain-specific processes. As an alternative to this contrastive conception of the relationship between domain-general and domain-specific processes, we propose a complementary conception: the identification of domain-general processes that are engaged in instances of social perception can play a positive, structuring role by adding additional constraints to be accounted for in modelling the domain-specific processes that are also involved in such instances.