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73
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World Ranking
1955
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109

Overview

Agneta H. Fischer is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has a significant presence in the field of psychology, particularly focusing on social sciences and psychology subfields.

Their research spans several main fields of study, including:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader fields, their work explores specific subfields such as:

  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Clinical Psychology

Fischer's main research topics cover diverse aspects related to emotions and behavior, including:

  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Their recent publications represent key contributions to these areas of study:

  • The rise of affectivism, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Good vibrations: A review of vocal expressions of positive emotions, 2020, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Toward an Integrative Psychometric Model of Emotions, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Two facets of affective empathy: concern and distress have opposite relationships to emotion recognition, 2020, Cognition & Emotion
  • The avatar will see you now: Support from a virtual human provides socio-emotional benefits, 2022, Computers in Human Behavior

Fischer frequently publishes in journals such as:

  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Emotion
  • Teaching and Teacher Education
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Intelligence

The scientist collaborates often with other researchers, including:

  • Disa Sauter
  • Jacob Israelashvili
  • David Abadi
  • Gerben A. van Kleef
  • Lisanne S. Pauw

Best Publications

  • Put your money where your mouth is! : Explaining collective action tendencies through group-based anger and group efficacy

    Martijn van Zomeren;Russell Spears;Agneta H. Fischer;Colin Wayne Leach

  • Review: The role of emotion in computer-mediated communication: A review

    Daantje Derks;Agneta H. Fischer;Arjan E. R. Bos

  • Beat them or ban them: the characteristics and social functions of anger and contempt.

    Agneta H. Fischer;Ira J. Roseman

  • Emotion in Social Relations: Cultural, Group, and Interpersonal Processes

    Brian Parkinson;Agneta H. Fischer;Antony S.R. Manstead

  • Gender and culture differences in emotion

    Agneta H. Fischer;Patricia M. Rodriguez Mosquera;Annelies E. M. van Vianen;Antony S. R. Manstead

  • Emotional Mimicry as Social Regulation

    Ursula Hess;Agneta Fischer

  • Social functions of emotion

    A. H. Fischer;Antony Stephen Reid Manstead

  • Gender and emotion: Social psychological perspectives

    Agneta H. Fischer

  • Moving faces, looking places: validation of the Amsterdam Dynamic Facial Expression Set (ADFES)

    Job Van Der Schalk;Skyler T. Hawk;Agneta H. Fischer;Bertjan Doosje

  • Sex Differences in Emotionality: Fact or Stereotype?:

    Agneta H. Fischer

  • Gender Differences in Motives for Regulating Emotions

    Monique Timmers;Agneta H. Fischer;Antony S. R. Manstead

  • Registered Replication Report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper (1988)

    E. J. Wagenmakers;Titia Beek;Laura Dijkhoff;Quentin F. Gronau

  • Illuminating the glass ceiling: The role of organizational culture preferences

    Annelies E. M. Van Vianen;Agneta H. Fischer

  • The role of honour concerns in emotional reactions to offences

    Patricia M. Rodriguez Mosquera;Antony Stephen Reid Manstead;Agneta H. Fischer

  • Emotional mimicry: why and when we mimic emotions

    Ursula Hess;Agneta Fischer

  • Convergent and divergent responses to emotional displays of ingroup and outgroup.

    Job Van Der Schalk;Agneta Fischer;Bertjan Doosje;Daniël Wigboldus

  • Social appraisal: the social world as object of and influence on appraisal processes

    Antony Stephen Reid Manstead;A. H. Fischer

  • The relation between gender and emotion in different cultures

    A. H. Fischer;Antony Stephen Reid Manstead

  • The Role of Honor-Related Values in the Elicitation, Experience, and Communication of Pride, Shame, and Anger: Spain and the Netherlands Compared

    Patricia M. Rodriguez Mosquera;Antony S. R. Manstead;Agneta H. Fischer

  • Feelings and Emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium

    Antony Stephen Reid Manstead;Nico Frijda;Agneta Fischer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ursula Hess
Ursula Hess Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gerben A. van Kleef
Gerben A. van Kleef University of Amsterdam
Bertjan Doosje
Bertjan Doosje University of Amsterdam
Disa Sauter
Disa Sauter University of Amsterdam
Catharine Evers
Catharine Evers Utrecht University
Nico H. Frijda
Nico H. Frijda University of Amsterdam
Russell Spears
Russell Spears University of Groningen
Skyler T. Hawk
Skyler T. Hawk Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mariska E. Kret
Mariska E. Kret Leiden University

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