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Overview

Ursula Hess is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a focus on social and experimental cognitive psychology. Their research largely explores emotional processes, facial perception, and social interactions.

The scientist's main field of study is psychology, with particular emphasis on the following subfields:

  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science

Core research topics within their work include:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology

Ursula Hess has published in multiple venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Acta Psychologica
  • Emotion
  • Psychophysiology

Recent notable publications include:

  • "(Un)mask yourself! Effects of face masks on facial mimicry and emotion perception during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021), published in Cognition & Emotion
  • "Who to whom and why: The social nature of emotional mimicry" (2020), published in Psychophysiology
  • "Emotional mimicry as social regulator: theoretical considerations" (2022), published in Cognition & Emotion
  • "Laughing at funerals and frowning at weddings: Top-down influences of context-driven social judgments on emotional mimicry" (2020), published in Acta Psychologica
  • "Infusing Context Into Emotion Perception Impacts Emotion Decoding Accuracy" (2021), published in Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie)

Frequent collaborators of Ursula Hess include:

  • Till Kastendieck
  • Heidi Mauersberger
  • Shlomo Hareli
  • Christophe Blaison
  • Konstantinos Kafetsios

Best Publications

  • Facial mimicry and emotional contagion to dynamic emotional facial expressions and their influence on decoding accuracy

    Ursula Hess;Sylvie Blairy

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

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

  • Emotional Mimicry as Social Regulation

    Ursula Hess;Agneta Fischer

  • The impact of social context on mimicry.

    Patrick Bourgeois;Ursula Hess

  • The Intensity of Emotional Facial Expressions and Decoding Accuracy

    Ursula Hess;Sylvie Blairy;Robert E. Kleck

  • Toward a dialect theory: cultural differences in the expression and recognition of posed facial expressions.

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Martin Beaupré;Manon Lévesque;Ursula Hess

  • The intensity of facial expression is determined by underlying affective state and social situation.

    Ursula Hess;Rainer Banse;Arvid Kappas

  • Registered Replication Report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper (1988)

    E. J. Wagenmakers;Titia Beek;Laura Dijkhoff;Quentin F. Gronau

  • The Influence of Facial Emotion Displays, Gender, and Ethnicity on Judgments of Dominance and Affiliation

    Ursula Hess;Sylvie Blairy;Robert E. Kleck

  • Emotional expressivity in men and women: Stereotypes and self-perceptions

    Ursula Hess;Sacha Senécal;Gilles Kirouac;Pedro Herrera

  • Cross-Cultural Emotion Recognition among Canadian Ethnic Groups:

    Martin G. Beaupré;Ursula Hess

  • Emotional mimicry: why and when we mimic emotions

    Ursula Hess;Agneta Fischer

  • What emotional reactions can tell us about the nature of others: An appraisal perspective on person perception

    Shlomo Hareli;Ursula Hess

  • Who may frown and who should smile? Dominance, affiliation, and the display of happiness and anger

    Ursula Hess;Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

  • Convergent and divergent responses to emotional displays of ingroup and outgroup.

    Job Van Der Schalk;Agneta Fischer;Bertjan Doosje;Daniël Wigboldus

  • MIMICRY AND THE JUDGMENT OF EMOTIONAL FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

    Sylvie Blairy;Pedro Herrera;Ursula Hess

  • You smile--I smile: emotion expression in social interaction.

    Ursula Hess;Patrick Bourgeois

  • Darwin and emotion expression.

    Ursula Hess;Pascal Thibault

  • Facial Appearance, Gender, and Emotion Expression.

    Ursula Hess;Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

  • Differentiating emotion elicited and deliberate emotional facial expressions

    Ursula Hess;Robert E. Kleck

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

    Roberto Caldara

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert E. Kleck
Robert E. Kleck Dartmouth College
Reginald B. Adams
Reginald B. Adams Pennsylvania State University
Agneta H. Fischer
Agneta H. Fischer University of Amsterdam
Konstantinos Kafetsios
Konstantinos Kafetsios Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Stuart Brody
Stuart Brody Charles University
Pierre Philippot
Pierre Philippot Université Catholique de Louvain
Charles Kornreich
Charles Kornreich Université Libre de Bruxelles
Paul Verbanck
Paul Verbanck Université Libre de Bruxelles
Paula M. Niedenthal
Paula M. Niedenthal University of Wisconsin–Madison
Klaus R. Scherer
Klaus R. Scherer University of Geneva

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