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Mariska E. Kret

Mariska E. Kret

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Psychology

D-Index
37
Citations
7200
World Ranking
9113
National Ranking
396

Overview

Mariska E. Kret is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Their research spans a variety of fields within psychology and neuroscience, focusing primarily on social and cognitive processes as they relate to human and non-human behavior.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Within these broader disciplines, Kret has contributed to several subfields, notably:

  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Their work covers key topics such as:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Kret has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Affective Science
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers demonstrate a focus on emotional expression, physiological synchrony, and mental state attribution. Notable publications include:

  • "Emotional expressions in human and non-human great apes," 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Physiological synchrony is associated with cooperative success in real-life interactions," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Physiological synchrony is associated with attraction in a blind date setting," 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Defining key concepts for mental state attribution," 2024, Communications Psychology

Kret has collaborated frequently with researchers such as Tom S. Roth, Milica Nikolić, Evy van Berlo, Juan Olvido Perea-García, and Iliana Samara. These repeated collaborations reflect sustained research partnerships across various studies.

Best Publications

  • A review on sex differences in processing emotional signals.

    M.E. Kret;B. de Gelder;B. de Gelder

  • Preprocessing pupil size data: Guidelines and code

    Mariska E. Kret;Elio E. Sjak-Shie

  • Connecting minds and sharing emotions through mimicry: A neurocognitive model of emotional contagion.

    Eliska Prochazkova;Mariska E. Kret

  • Standing up for the body. Recent progress in uncovering the networks involved in the perception of bodies and bodily expressions

    Beatrice de Gelder;Jan Van den Stock;Jan Van den Stock;Hanneke K.M. Meeren;Charlotte B.A. Sinke;Charlotte B.A. Sinke

  • Oxytocin Conditions Intergroup Relations Through Upregulated In-Group Empathy, Cooperation, Conformity, and Defense.

    Carsten K.W. De Dreu;Mariska E. Kret

  • Oxytocin-Motivated Ally Selection is Moderated by Fetal Testosterone Exposure and Empathic Concern.

    Mariska Esther Kret;Carsten eDe Dreu

  • Gender differences in emotion perception and self-reported emotional intelligence: A test of the emotion sensitivity hypothesis.

    Agneta H. Fischer;Mariska E. Kret;Joost Broekens

  • Similarities and differences in perceiving threat from dynamic faces and bodies. An fMRI study.

    M.E. Kret;S. Pichon;S. Pichon;J. Grèzes;B. de Gelder;B. de Gelder

  • Perception of face and body expressions using electromyography, pupillometry and gaze measures

    Mariska E. Kret;Jeroen J. Stekelenburg;Karin Roelofs;Beatrice de Gelder

  • Emotional signals from faces, bodies and scenes influence observers' face expressions, fixations and pupil-size

    Mariska Esther Kret;Karin Roelofs;Jeroen Stekelenburg;Beatrice de Gelder

  • The rise of affectivism

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

  • Pupil Mimicry Correlates With Trust in In-Group Partners With Dilating Pupils

    M. E. Kret;A. H. Fischer;C. K. W. De Dreu

  • Emotional expressions beyond facial muscle actions. A call for studying autonomic signals and their impact on social perception

    Mariska Esther Kret

  • The dot-probe task to measure emotional attention: A suitable measure in comparative studies?

    Rianne van Rooijen;Annemie Ploeger;Mariska E. Kret

  • Emotional expressions in human and non-human great apes

    Mariska E. Kret;Eliska Prochazkova;Elisabeth H.M. Sterck;Zanna Clay

  • Emotion processing deficits: a liability spectrum providing insight into comorbidity of mental disorders.

    Mariska E. Kret;Annemie Ploeger

  • Social context influences recognition of bodily expressions

    Mariska Esther Kret;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder

  • The role of negative affectivity and social inhibition in perceiving social threat: an fMRI study.

    Mariska Esther Kret;Johan Denollet;Julie Grèzes;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder

  • Chimpanzees and Humans Mimic Pupil-Size of Conspecifics

    Mariska E. Kret;Masaki Tomonaga;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Islamic Headdress Influences How Emotion is Recognized from the Eyes

    Mariska Esther Kret;Beatrice de Gelder

  • Bonobos (Pan paniscus) show an attentional bias toward conspecifics’ emotions

    Mariska E. Kret;Linda Jaasma;Thomas Bionda;Jasper G. Wijnen

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten K. W. De Dreu
Carsten K. W. De Dreu University of Groningen
Beatrice de Gelder
Beatrice de Gelder Maastricht University
Agneta H. Fischer
Agneta H. Fischer University of Amsterdam
Disa Sauter
Disa Sauter University of Amsterdam
Julie Grèzes
Julie Grèzes École Normale Supérieure
Carolien Rieffe
Carolien Rieffe University of Twente
Karin Roelofs
Karin Roelofs Radboud University
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Tetsuro Matsuzawa California Institute of Technology
Masaki Tomonaga
Masaki Tomonaga University of Human Environments
Susan M. Bögels
Susan M. Bögels University of Amsterdam

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