A5015524050- Face Recognition and Perception
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Education, sociology, and vocational training
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Social Representations and Identity
- Humor Studies and Applications
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Color perception and design
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2015-2024
Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
2004-2024
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
2020
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
2020
University of Geneva
2014
Université Clermont Auvergne
2001-2011
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2003-2011
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST)
2008
University of California, San Diego
2008
Indiana University
1994-2000
Theories of embodied cognition hold that higher cognitive processes operate on perceptual symbols and concept use involves partial reactivations the sensory-motor states occur during experience with world. On this view, processing emotion knowledge a (partial) reexperience an emotion, but only when access to sensory basis is required by task. In 2 experiments, participants judged emotional neutral concepts corresponding concrete objects (Experiment 1) abstract 2) while facial...
Nancy Cantor, Julie K. Norem, Paula M. Niedenthal, and Christopher A. Langston Institute for Social Research University of Michigan Aaron Brower School Work Wisconsin This paper reports on data from a longitudinal study in which normative life tasks individuals' personal versions those are investigated the context students making transition home high school to college life. Analyses focus both common patterns life-task appraisal interpersonal achievement domains differences self-concepts...
A smile is the most frequent facial expression, but not all smiles are equal. social-functional account holds that of reward, affiliation, and dominance serve basic social functions, including rewarding behavior, bonding socially, negotiating hierarchy. Here, we characterize facial-expression patterns associated with these three types smiles. Specifically, modeled expressions using a data-driven approach showed reward symmetrical accompanied by eyebrow raising, affiliative involve lip...
The role of counterfactual thinking in 2 emotions--shame and guilt--was examined. In 1 series studies, Ss read about situations evocative shame guilt or described personal experiences shame. They then generated alternatives to "undo" the distressing outcomes. Consistent with predictions derived from Tangney (1991), tended undo by altering qualities self actions. a 2nd imagined themselves situation that could evoke either were led mutate behavior situation. Mutation manipulations amplified...
According to adult attachment theory, individual differences in attachment-related anxiety reflect variation individuals' vigilance cues relevant appraising and monitoring the availability responsiveness of significant others. To investigate this assumption, authors adopted a morph movie paradigm which participants were shown movies faces an emotional facial expression changed gradually neutral one (Study 1) or (Studies 2-4). Participants asked judge point at had disappeared emerged,...
College students responded to a series of questionnaires while they were in the process selecting housing from choice seven available options for coming fall. Questionnaires concerned their self-concepts, prototypes, preferences housing, and goals selection. Overall analyses self-to-prototype matching strategy suggest that most indeed prefer type which prototype "representative" resident closely matches self-perceptions. More important, we obtained individual differences attention self-fit...
Significance In an age of globalization, emotional understanding is the central problem human interaction. Here, we show that historical heterogeneity, or extent to which a country’s present-day population descends from numerous (vs. few) source countries, predicts cultural variation in norms for expressivity. Reanalysis display rules 32 countries reveals heterogeneity associated with favoring greater addition, results study nine belief smiles signal social bonding motives vs. negotiation...
The judgment that a smile is based on "true," usually positive, feelings affects social interaction. However, the processes underlying interpretation of as being more or less genuine are not well understood. aim present research was to test predictions Simulation Smiles Model (SIMS) proposed by Niedenthal, Mermillod, Maringer, and Hess (2010). In addition perceptual features can guide genuine, model identifies conditions judgments rely on: (a) embodiment facial expression its corresponding...
The mechanisms through which people perceive different types of smiles and judge their authenticity remain unclear. Here, 19 were created based on the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), using highly controlled, dynamic avatar faces. Participants observed short videos while facial mimicry was measured with electromyography (EMG) over four muscles. Smile judged after each trial. Avatar attractiveness once in response to avatar's neutral face. Results suggest that, contrast most earlier work...
Recent research suggests that facial mimicry underlies accurate interpretation of subtle expressions. In three experiments, we manipulated and tested its role in judgments the genuineness true false smiles. Experiment 1 used EMG to show a new mouthguard technique for blocking modifies both amount time course reactions. Experiments 2 3, participants rated smiles either while wearing mouthguards or when allowed freely mimic with without additional distraction, namely holding squeeze ball...