2026 Paula M. Niedenthal: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	66	2665	2440	1534	1371	197	22044

Overview

Paula M. Niedenthal is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple facets within the disciplines of psychology and neuroscience, focusing particularly on social and cognitive processes related to emotion and behavior.

Their publication record includes contributions to prominent journals, with recent papers covering diverse topics such as affective processes, social structure, facial signaling, and emotion recognition. Notable works include:

The rise of affectivism (2021), published in Nature Human Behaviour
Social Structure Predicts Eye Contact Tolerance in Nonhuman Primates: Evidence from a Crowd-Sourcing Approach (2020), published in Scientific Reports
Evidence for Distinct Facial Signals of Reward, Affiliation, and Dominance from Both Perception and Production Tasks (2021), published in Affective Science
Wearing N95, Surgical, and Cloth Face Masks Compromises the Perception of Emotion (2022), published in Affective Science
Exploring the Relationship Between Fiction Reading and Emotion Recognition (2021), published in Affective Science

The scientist frequently collaborates with researchers including Jared Martin, Fangyun Zhao, Adrienne Wood, Andrew T. Langbehn, and Ethan G. Harrod. These collaborations reflect ongoing research interests in the nuanced understanding of emotional and social communication.

Key publication venues where their work appears include:

Affective Science
Emotion
Research Square
Nature Human Behaviour
Scientific Reports

Paula M. Niedenthal's main fields of study are psychology and neuroscience. Within these disciplines, they focus on several subfields, including social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, and general health professions.

The main topics covered in their work encompass:

Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Cultural Differences and Values
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Face Recognition and Perception
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Emotions and Moral Behavior
Child and Animal Learning Development

Best Publications

Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion

Paula M. Niedenthal;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Piotr Winkielman;Silvia Krauth-Gruber

2182
Citations
Embodying Emotion

Unknown

1266
Citations
"If only I weren't" versus "if only I hadn't": distinguishing shame and guilt in counterfactual thinking.

Paula M. Niedenthal;June Price Tangney;Igor Gavanski

822
Citations
The Simulation of Smiles (SIMS) model: Embodied simulation and the meaning of facial expression

Paula M. Niedenthal;Martial Mermillod;Marcus Maringer;Ursula Hess

759
Citations
Life Tasks, Self-Concept Ideals, and Cognitive Strategies in a Life Transition

Nancy Cantor;Julie K. Norem;Paula M. Niedenthal;Christopher A. Langston

739
Citations
Psychology of Emotion

Paula M. Niedenthal;François Ric

635
Citations
Embodiment of emotion concepts.

Paula M. Niedenthal;Piotr Winkielman;Laurie Mondillon;Nicolas Vermeulen

619
Citations
When did her smile drop? Facial mimicry and the influences of emotional state on the detection of change in emotional expression

Paula M. Niedenthal;Markus Brauer;Jamin B. Halberstadt;Åse H. Innes-Ker

595
Citations
Are shame and guilt related to distinct self-discrepancies? A test of Higgins's (1987) hypotheses.

June Price Tangney;Paula M. Niedenthal;Michelle Vowell Covert;Deborah Hill Barlow

542
Citations
Adult Attachment and the Perception of Emotional Expressions: Probing the Hyperactivating Strategies Underlying Anxious Attachment

R. Chris Fraley;Paula M. Niedenthal;Michael Marks;Claudia Brumbaugh

532
Citations
Social Functionality of Human Emotion

Paula M. Niedenthal;Markus Brauer

504
Citations
Implicit perception of affective information

Paula M Niedenthal

468
Citations
An influence of positive affect on social categorization

Alice M. Isen;Paula M. Niedenthal;Nancy Cantor

456
Citations
Perception of the duration of emotional events

Sylvie Droit-Volet;Sophie Brunot;Paula M. Niedenthal

453
Citations
Emotion Congruence in Perception

Paula M. Niedenthal;Marc B. Setterlund

437
Citations
The heart's eye: Emotional influences in perception and attention.

Paula M. Niedenthal;Shinobu Kitayama

411
Citations
Fashioning the Face: Sensorimotor Simulation Contributes to Facial Expression Recognition

Adrienne Wood;Magdalena Rychlowska;Sebastian Korb;Paula M. Niedenthal

396
Citations
On motivation and the self-concept.

Nancy Cantor;Hazel Markus;Paula Niedenthal;Paula Nurius

388
Citations
Emotional state and the detection of change in facial expression of emotion

Paula M. Niedenthal;Jamin B. Halberstadt;Jonathan Margolin;Åse H. Innes-Ker

375
Citations
Convergence in the physical appearance of spouses

R. B. Zajonc;Pamela K. Adelmann;Sheila T. Murphy;Paula M. Niedenthal

360
Citations
Beyond smiles: The impact of culture and race in embodying and decoding facial expressions

Roberto Caldara

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvie Droit-Volet University of Clermont Auvergne

Piotr Winkielman University of California, San Diego

Jamin Halberstadt University of Otago

Nancy Cantor Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Eva Gilboa-Schechtman Bar-Ilan University

Ursula Hess Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Yuri Miyamoto Hitotsubashi University

Lawrence W. Barsalou University of Glasgow

Agneta H. Fischer University of Amsterdam

John F. Kihlstrom University of California, Berkeley

External Links

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