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Piotr Winkielman publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Piotr Winkielman sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 146 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Piotr Winkielman D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Piotr Winkielman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

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

  • Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion

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

  • Effects of Perceptual Fluency on Affective Judgments

    Rolf Reber;Piotr Winkielman;Norbert Schwarz

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

    Edward Vul;Christine Harris;Piotr Winkielman;Harold Pashler

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

    Piotr Winkielman;John T. Cacioppo

  • The hedonic marking of processing fluency: Implications for evaluative judgment

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

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

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

  • Prototypes Are Attractive Because They Are Easy on the Mind

    Piotr Winkielman;Jamin Halberstadt;Tedra Fazendeiro;Steve Catty

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

    Kent C. Berridge;Piotr Winkielman

  • 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

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

    Lindsay M Oberman;Piotr Winkielman;Vilayanur S Ramachandran

  • Embodiment of emotion concepts.

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

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

    Patricia S. Churchland;Piotr Winkielman

  • Subliminal affective priming resists attributional interventions.

    Piotr Winkielman;Robert B. Zajonc Norbert Schwarz

  • Unconscious Emotion

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  • Social neuroscience : integrating biological and psychological explanations of social behavior

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;Piotr Winkielman

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Paula M. Niedenthal
Paula M. Niedenthal University of Wisconsin–Madison
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California
Jamin Halberstadt
Jamin Halberstadt University of Otago
Martin P. Paulus
Martin P. Paulus Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Andrzej Nowak
Andrzej Nowak University of Warsaw
Brian Knutson
Brian Knutson Stanford University
Kent C. Berridge
Kent C. Berridge University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Daniel N. McIntosh
Daniel N. McIntosh University of Denver
Diane Pecher
Diane Pecher Erasmus University Rotterdam
Marian Stewart Bartlett
Marian Stewart Bartlett Apple (United States)

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