2026 Piotr Winkielman: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	56	4101	3784	2294	2068	146	25480

Overview

Piotr Winkielman is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology. The scientist's work addresses various aspects of human perception and behavior, particularly related to face recognition, evolutionary psychology, and emotional judgment.

The main fields of study for Piotr Winkielman include:

Psychology
Neuroscience

Subfields of study consist of:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Social Psychology
Sensory Systems
Health

The primary research topics covered in their publications are:

Face Recognition and Perception
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Action Observation and Synchronization
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Health disparities and outcomes

Piotr Winkielman has contributed to several recent papers, among which are:

"The neuroethology of spontaneous mimicry and emotional contagion in human and non-human animals" (2020), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
"From likely to likable: The role of statistical typicality in human social assessment of faces" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"The architecture of prototype preferences: Typicality, fluency, and valence." (2020), Journal of Experimental Psychology General
"Ambiguous at the second sight: Mixed facial expressions trigger late electrophysiological responses linked to lower social impressions" (2020), Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
"Stressed connections: cortisol levels following acute psychosocial stress disrupt affiliative mimicry in humans" (2020), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

Scientific Reports
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Journal of Experimental Psychology General
Frontiers in Psychology
Cognition & Emotion

Piotr Winkielman collaborates commonly with several co-authors, including:

Yueyi Jiang
Evan W. Carr
Przemysław Marcowski
Elisabetta Palagi
Alessia Celeghin

Best Publications

Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver's Processing Experience?

Rolf Reber;Norbert Schwarz;Piotr Winkielman

3763
Citations
Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion

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

2182
Citations
Effects of Perceptual Fluency on Affective Judgments

Rolf Reber;Piotr Winkielman;Norbert Schwarz

1961
Citations
Puzzlingly high correlations in fMRI studies of emotion, personality, and social cognition.

Edward Vul;Christine Harris;Piotr Winkielman;Harold Pashler

1837
Citations
Mind at ease puts a smile on the face: Psychophysiological evidence that processing facilitation elicits positive affect

Piotr Winkielman;John T. Cacioppo

1588
Citations
The hedonic marking of processing fluency: Implications for evaluative judgment

Piotr Winkielman;Norbert Schwarz;Tedra A. Fazendeiro;Rolf Reber

1237
Citations
Unconscious Affective Reactions to Masked Happy Versus Angry Faces Influence Consumption Behavior and Judgments of Value

Piotr Winkielman;Kent C. Berridge;Julia L. Wilbarger

1025
Citations
Prototypes Are Attractive Because They Are Easy on the Mind

Piotr Winkielman;Jamin Halberstadt;Tedra Fazendeiro;Steve Catty

748
Citations
What is an unconscious emotion?(The case for unconscious "liking").

Kent C. Berridge;Piotr Winkielman

697
Citations
When the social mirror breaks: deficits in automatic, but not voluntary, mimicry of emotional facial expressions in autism

Daniel N. McIntosh;Aimee Reichmann-Decker;Piotr Winkielman;Julia L. Wilbarger

645
Citations
Face to face: Blocking facial mimicry can selectively impair recognition of emotional expressions

Lindsay M Oberman;Piotr Winkielman;Vilayanur S Ramachandran

619
Citations
Embodiment of emotion concepts.

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

619
Citations
Modulating social behavior with oxytocin: How does it work? What does it mean?

Patricia S. Churchland;Piotr Winkielman

580
Citations
Subliminal affective priming resists attributional interventions.

Piotr Winkielman;Robert B. Zajonc Norbert Schwarz

508
Citations
Unconscious Emotion

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453
Citations
Social neuroscience : integrating biological and psychological explanations of social behavior

Eddie Harmon-Jones;Piotr Winkielman

395
Citations
Nucleus accumbens activation mediates the influence of reward cues on financial risk taking.

Brian Knutson;G. Elliott Wimmer;Camelia M. Kuhnen;Piotr Winkielman

377
Citations
Mental Exercising Through Simple Socializing: Social Interaction Promotes General Cognitive Functioning

Oscar Ybarra;Eugene Burnstein;Piotr Winkielman;Matthew C. Keller

345
Citations
Autism and the extraction of emotion from briefly presented facial expressions: stumbling at the first step of empathy.

Tedra F. Clark;Piotr Winkielman;Daniel N. McIntosh

286
Citations
The Role of Ease of Retrieval and Attribution in Memory Judgments: Judging Your Memory as Worse Despite Recalling More Events

Piotr Winkielman;Norbert Schwarz;Robert F. Belli

271
Citations
Slow echo: facial EMG evidence for the delay of spontaneous, but not voluntary, emotional mimicry in children with autism spectrum disorders.

Lindsay M. Oberman;Piotr Winkielman;Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

264
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paula M. Niedenthal University of Wisconsin–Madison

Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California

Jamin Halberstadt University of Otago

Brian Knutson Stanford University

Kent C. Berridge University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Martin P. Paulus Laureate Institute for Brain Research

Diane Pecher Erasmus University Rotterdam

Daniel N. McIntosh University of Denver

René Zeelenberg Erasmus University Rotterdam

Oscar Ybarra University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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