Jumping for joy: the importance of the body and of dynamics in the expression and recognition of positive emotions

M Mortillaro, D Dukes - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The majority of research on emotion expression has focused on static facial prototypes of a
few selected, mostly negative emotions. Implicitly, most researchers seem to have …

Measuring Learning in the Blink of an Eye: Adolescents' Neurophysiological Reactions Predict Long-Term Memory for Stories

RJM Gotlieb, XF Yang, MH Immordino-Yang - Frontiers in education, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Anticipating what adolescents will remember is a common goal in education research, but
what tools allow us to predict adolescents' memory without interrupting the learning process …

When animals cry: The effect of adding tears to animal expressions on human judgment

A Picó, M Gadea - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
At a time of growing interest in and awareness about the relationships between humans and
animals, it is of relevance to scientifically analyse the intrinsic nature of these interactions …

Pupils say more than a thousand words: Pupil size reflects how observed actions are interpreted

F Quesque, F Behrens, ME Kret - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Humans attend to others' facial expressions and body language to better understand their
emotions and predict goals and intentions. The eyes and its pupils reveal important social …

Emotional mimicry as a proxy measurement for pro-social indicators of trust, empathy, liking and altruism

NE Joby, H Umemuro - Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The development of automated, unobtrusive measurement of pro-social indicators such as
trust, empathy, liking and altruistic tendency in daily interactions is an unsolved problem in …

Reply to Crivelli et al.: The different faces of fear and threat. Evolutionary and cultural insights

ME Kret, LM Straffon - Journal of human evolution, 2018 - Elsevier
Conclusions With this commentary, we aim to encourage researchers to be more cautious
when discussing the universality or specificity of facial expressions, and when choosing their …

The emotional expressions and emotion perception in nonhuman primates

Y Kim, M Kret - The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development, 2022 - books.google.com
For decades, the concept of emotion has long been the subject of considerable debate due
to differing definitions adopted across disciplines, ranging from functional (Anderson & …

Primate communication: Affective, intentional, or both?

RM Heesen, C Sievers, T Gruber, Z Clay - 2021 - osf.io
The intentional communication of affective states is a central part of human sociality and
cognition. Although nonhuman primates (henceforth primates) also signal intentionally …

It is written in the eyes: Inferences from pupil size and gaze orientation shape interpersonal liking

S Mattavelli, M Brambilla, ME Kret - Social Cognition, 2022 - Guilford Press
Research has shown that pupil size shapes interpersonal impressions: Individuals with
dilated pupils tend to be perceived more positively than those with constricted pupils …

All that meets the eye: The contribution of reward processing and pupil mimicry on pupillary reactions to facial trustworthiness

A Frisanco, M Biella, M Brambilla, ME Kret - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
The present work investigates pupillary reactions induced by exposure to faces with different
levels of trustworthiness. Participants'(N= 69) pupillary changes were recorded while they …