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Overview

Disa Sauter is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a substantial body of work spanning 88 publications in this field. Within psychology, their contributions are most notable in social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Additional subfields of study include sociology and political science as well as clinical psychology.

Their main areas of research concern emotions and moral behavior, with significant attention to cultural differences and values, face recognition and perception, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and topics related to mental health.

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • What music makes us feel: At least 13 dimensions organize subjective experiences associated with music across different cultures (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • The rise of affectivism (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Good vibrations: A review of vocal expressions of positive emotions (2020, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review)
  • Two facets of affective empathy: concern and distress have opposite relationships to emotion recognition (2020, Cognition & Emotion)
  • Positive affect and behavior change (2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences)

Sauter has frequently published in several scholarly venues, including:

  • Cognition & Emotion (6 publications)
  • Emotion (5 publications)
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences (4 publications)
  • Journal of Nonverbal Behavior (4 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 publications)

The scientist has collaborated extensively with a number of co-authors, notably:

  • Roza Gizem Kamiloglu (15 joint publications)
  • Agneta H. Fischer (14 joint publications)
  • Rui Sun (9 joint publications)
  • Kunalan Manokara (7 joint publications)
  • Yong-Qi Cong (7 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Cross-cultural recognition of basic emotions through nonverbal emotional vocalizations

    Disa A. Sauter;Frank Eisner;Frank Eisner;Paul Ekman;Sophie K. Scott

  • Emotional Expression: Advances in Basic Emotion Theory.

    Dacher Keltner;Disa Sauter;Jessica Tracy;Alan Cowen

  • Perceptual cues in nonverbal vocal expressions of emotion

    Disa A. Sauter;Frank Eisner;Andrew J. Calder;Sophie K. Scott

  • Early Specialization for Voice and Emotion Processing in the Infant Brain

    Anna Blasi;Evelyne Mercure;Sarah Lloyd-Fox;Alex Thomson

  • A multimodal approach to emotion recognition ability in autism spectrum disorders

    Catherine R.G. Jones;Andrew Pickles;Milena Falcaro;Anita J.S. Marsden

  • Positive Emotions Preferentially Engage an Auditory–Motor “Mirror” System

    Jane E. Warren;Jane E. Warren;Disa A. Sauter;Frank Eisner;Jade Wiland

  • The voice conveys specific emotions: evidence from vocal burst displays

    Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas;Dacher J. Keltner;Disa Sauter;Lara Sinicropi-Yao

  • The structural neuroanatomy of music emotion recognition: Evidence from frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    Rohani Omar;Susie M.D. Henley;Jonathan W. Bartlett;Julia C. Hailstone

  • What music makes us feel: At least 13 dimensions organize subjective experiences associated with music across different cultures.

    Alan S. Cowen;Xia Fang;Disa Sauter;Dacher Keltner

  • Developmental phonagnosia: a selective deficit of vocal identity recognition.

    Lúcia Garrido;Frank Eisner;Carolyn McGettigan;Lauren Stewart

  • The rise of affectivism

    Daniel Dukes;Daniel Dukes;Kathryn Abrams;Ralph Adolphs;Mohammed E. Ahmed

  • Mapping the Passions: Toward a High-Dimensional Taxonomy of Emotional Experience and Expression.

    Alan Cowen;Disa Sauter;Jessica L Tracy;Dacher Keltner

  • More than one kind of happiness: Can we recognize vocal expressions of different positive states?

    Disa A. Sauter;Sophie K. Scott

  • Children's recognition of emotions from vocal cues

    Disa A. Sauter;Charlotte Panattoni;Francesca Happé

  • Rapid detection of emotion from human vocalizations

    Disa Anna Sauter;Disa Anna Sauter;Martin Eimer

  • The roles of feature-specific task set and bottom-up salience in attentional capture: An ERP study

    Martin Eimer;Monika Kiss;Clare Press;Disa Sauter;Disa Sauter

  • Individual Differences in Laughter Perception Reveal Roles for Mentalizing and Sensorimotor Systems in the Evaluation of Emotional Authenticity

    C McGettigan;Eamonn Walsh;Rosemary Jessop;Z K Agnew

  • What Basic Emotion Theory Really Says for the Twenty-First Century Study of Emotion.

    Dacher Keltner;Jessica L. Tracy;Disa Sauter;Alan Cowen

  • More Than Happy The Need for Disentangling Positive Emotions

    Disa Sauter

  • Measuring the effects of alexithymia on perception of emotional vocalizations in autistic spectrum disorder and typical development

    Pam F. Heaton;Lisa Reichenbacher;Disa Sauter;Rory Allen

  • Categorical Perception of Emotional Facial Expressions Does Not Require Lexical Categories

    Disa A. Sauter;Oliver LeGuen;Daniel B. M. Haun

Frequent Co-Authors

Sophie K. Scott
Sophie K. Scott University College London
Agneta H. Fischer
Agneta H. Fischer University of Amsterdam
Gerben A. van Kleef
Gerben A. van Kleef University of Amsterdam
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman University of California, San Francisco
Daniel B. M. Haun
Daniel B. M. Haun Max Planck Society
Jason D. Warren
Jason D. Warren University College London
Jessica L. Tracy
Jessica L. Tracy University of British Columbia
Mariska E. Kret
Mariska E. Kret Leiden University
Francesca Happé
Francesca Happé King's College London

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