2026 Bernard Rimé: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	55	4332	4003	61	58	180	16536

Overview

Bernard Rimé is affiliated with Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily spans Psychology and Social Sciences, with notable contributions in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their scholarly work addresses various topics related to social behavior and psychological dynamics, including:

Social and Intergroup Psychology
Cultural Differences and Values
Media Influence and Health
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Behavioral Health and Interventions
Impact of Technology on Adolescents

Bernard Rimé has authored and contributed to multiple research articles, with recent publications including:

Don't put all social network sites in one basket: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and their relations with well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021, PLoS ONE)
Emotional processes, collective behavior, and social movements: A meta-analytic review of collective effervescence outcomes during collective gatherings and demonstrations (2022, Frontiers in Psychology)
Collective emotions during the COVID-19 outbreak (2022, Emotion)
Perceived Emotional Synchrony in Collective Gatherings: Validation of a Short Scale and Proposition of an Integrative Measure (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim's Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence (2023, Perspectives on Psychological Science)

Their work has appeared frequently in notable venues such as Frontiers in Psychology and PLoS ONE, as well as Emotion and Perspectives on Psychological Science. This indicates a focus on psychological processes and collective social phenomena.

Bernard Rimé collaborates with a range of researchers, with frequent coauthors including:

Pierre Bouchat
Darío Páez
Larraitz Zumeta
Anna Włodarczyk
Nekane Basabe

Best Publications

Emotion Elicits the Social Sharing of Emotion: Theory and Empirical Review:

Bernard Rimé

1847
Citations
Beyond the emotional event: Six studies on the social sharing of emotion

Bernard Rimé;Batja Mesquita;Pierre Philippot;Stefano Boca

885
Citations
Le partage social des émotions

Bernard Rimé

885
Citations
Social sharing of emotion : new evidence and new questions

Bernard Rimé;Catrin Finkenauer;Olivier Luminet;Emmanuelle Zech

804
Citations
Disclosing and sharing emotion: Psychological, social and health consequences

James W. Pennebaker;Emmanuelle Zech;Bernard Rimé

586
Citations
Collective Memory of Political Events : Social Psychological Perspectives

James W. Pennebaker;Darío Páez;Bernard Rimé

568
Citations
Long-lasting Cognitive and Social Consequences of Emotion: Social Sharing and Rumination

Bernard Rimé;Pierre Philippot;Stefano Boca;Batja Mesquita

557
Citations
Interpersonal Emotion Regulation.

Bernard Rimé

487
Citations
Psychosocial effects of perceived emotional synchrony in collective gatherings.

Dario Páez;Bernard Rimé;Nekane Basabe;Anna Wlodarczyk

414
Citations
Social sharing of emotion following exposure to a negatively valenced situation

Oliver Luminet;Patrick Bouts;Frédérique Delie;Antony Stephen Reid Manstead

406
Citations
Gesture and speech.

Bernard Rimé;Loris Schiaratura

393
Citations
Exposure to the social sharing of emotion: Emotional impact, listener responses and secondary social sharing

Véronique Christophe;Bernard Rimé

379
Citations
The Social Sharing of Emotion as an Interface Between Individual and Collective Processes in the Construction of Emotional Climates

Bernard Rimé

361
Citations
Fundamentals of nonverbal behavior

Robert Stephen Feldman;Bernard Rimé

358
Citations
Socially Shared Emotional Experiences Vs. Emotional Experiences Kept Secret: Differential Characteristics and Consequences

Catrin Finkenauer;Bernard Rimé

324
Citations
Mental rumination, social sharing, and the recovery from emotional exposure.

Bernard Rimé

313
Citations
Is talking about an emotional experience helpful? Effects on emotional recovery and perceived benefits

Emmanuelle Zech;Bernard Rimé

311
Citations
Beyond the myth of venting: Social sharing modes determine the benefits of emotional disclosure

Frédéric Nils;Bernard Rimé

306
Citations
A multimodal investigation of emotional responding in alexithymia

Olivier Luminet;Bernard Rimé;R. Michael Bagby;Graeme J. Taylor

269
Citations
Social sharing of emotion, post-traumatic growth, and emotional climate: Follow-up of Spanish citizen's response to the collective trauma of March 11th terrorist attacks in Madrid

Bernard Rimé;Dario Paez;Nekane Basabe;Francisco Martinez

235
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Darío Páez Andrés Bello University

Batja Mesquita KU Leuven

Olivier Luminet Université Catholique de Louvain

Pierre Philippot Université Catholique de Louvain

James W. Pennebaker The University of Texas at Austin

Dirk Hermans KU Leuven

Vincent Yzerbyt Université Catholique de Louvain

Catrin Finkenauer Utrecht University

Philippe Verduyn Maastricht University

Jacques-Philippe Leyens Université Catholique de Louvain

External Links

Personal website of Bernard Rimé

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