Research

We describe our overarching research areas below. Visit our publications page to see what else we do.

Sensorimotor contributions to emotion perception

When people perceive and process the meaning of others' facial expressions, it often activates brain systems responsible for expression production. This sensorimotor simulation contributes to the understanding of the other person's facial expression.

Social functions of smiles and laughter

According to our social functional perspective, smiles and laughter can take different forms to accomplish different social tasks. Smiles and laughter can be rewards to the self and others, affiliation cues that convey non-threatening intentions, and signals of dominance and superiority.

Historical migration patterns shape expressivity

Over the last 500 years, some regions in the world experienced waves of immigration from a variety of source countries, while the populations of other regions have remained relatively stable. This cultural difference, known as historical heterogeneity, explains cultural variability in nonverbal expression.

Publications

Articles

In press / under review

Harrod, E., Coe, C. L., & Niedenthal, P. (under review). Social structure predicts eye contact tolerance in nonhuman primates: Evidence from a crowd-sourcing approach. [preprint]

2020

Azoulay, R., Berger, U., Keshet, H., Niedenthal, P. M., & Gilboa-Schechtman, E. (2020). Social anxiety and the interpretation of morphed facial expressions following exclusion and inclusion. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 66, 101511.

2019

Niedenthal, P. M., Rychlowska, M., Zhao, F., & Wood, A. (2019). Historical migration patterns shape contemporary cultures of emotion. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1745691619849591.

Azoulay, R., Berger, U., Keshet, H., Niedenthal, P. M., & Gilboa-Schechtman, E. (2019). Social anxiety and the interpretation of morphed facial expressions following exclusion and inclusion. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 101511.

Korb, S., Goldman, R., Davidson, R. J., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2019). Increased medial prefrontal cortex and decreased zygomaticus activation in response to disliked smiles suggest top-down inhibition of facial mimicry. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1715.

Friesen, J. P., Kawakami, K., Vingilis-Jaremko, L., Caprara, R., Sidhu, D. M., Williams, A., ... & Niedenthal, P. (2019). Perceiving happiness in an intergroup context: The role of race and attention to the eyes in differentiating between true and false smiles. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116(3), 375.

Niedenthal, P. M., & Wood, A. (2019). Does emotion influence visual perception? Depends on how you look at it. Cognition and Emotion, 33(1), 77-84.

Murrar, S., Isenberg, N., Niedenthal, P., & Brauer, M. (2019). Shame and guilt among ice hockey players in the penalty box. Motivation and Emotion, 43(6), 940-947.

Carpenter, S. M., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2019). Disrupting facial action increases risk taking. Emotion.

2018

Wood, A., Martin, J. D., Alibali, M. W., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2018). A sad thumbs up: incongruent gestures and disrupted sensorimotor activity both slow processing of facial expressions. Cognition and Emotion, 1-14. [Html]

Niedenthal, P. M., Rychlowska, M., Wood, A., & Zhao, F. (2018). Heterogeneity of long-history migration predicts smiling, laughter and positive emotion across the globe and within the United States. PloS one, 13(8), e0197651.

Martin, J., Abercrombie, H., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Niedenthal, P.M. (2018). Functionally distinct smiles elicit different physiological responses in an evaluative context. Scientific Reports. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21536-1

Winkielman, P., Coulson, S., & Niedenthal, P. (2018). Dynamic grounding of emotion concepts. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 373(1752), 20170127.

Mermillod, M., Grynberg, D., Pio-Lopez, L., Rychlowska, M., Beffara, B., Harquel, S., Vermeulen, N., Niedenthal, P., Dutheil, F., & Droit-Volet, S. (2018). Evidence of Rapid Modulation by Social Information of Subjective, Physiological, and Neural Responses to Emotional Expressions. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 11, 231.

Wood, A. & Niedenthal, P. (2018). Developing a social functional account of laughter. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12383

2017

Martin, J., Rychlowska, M., Wood, A., & Niedenthal, P.M. (2017). Smiles as multipurpose social signals. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2017.08.007

Wood, A., Martin, J., & Niedenthal, P. (2017). Towards a social functional account of laughter: Acoustic features predict perceptions of reward, affiliation, and dominance. PLoS ONE, 12(8): e0183811. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183811

Rychlowska, M., Jack, R. E., Garrod, O. G., Schyns, P. G., Martin, J. D., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2017). Functional smiles: tools for love, sympathy, and war. Psychological Science, 0956797617706082.

Niedenthal, P., Rychlowska, M., & Wood, A. (2017). Feelings and contexts: Socioecological influences on the nonverbal expression of emotion. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 170-175.

Carpenter, S. M., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2017). Emotional processes in risky and multiattribute health decisions. Psychology & Health, 1-19.

2016

Wood, A., Rychlowska, M., Korb, S., & Niedenthal, P. (2016). Fashioning the face: Sensorimotor simulation contributes to facial expression recognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(3), 227-240

Korb, S., Wood, A., Rychlowska, M., & Niedenthal, P. (2016). The perils of boxes and arrows: Reply to Gallese & Caruana. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 398-399.

Wood, A., Rychlowska, M., & Niedenthal, P. (2016). Heterogeneity of long-history migration predicts emotion recognition accuracy. Emotion, 16, 413-420.

Korb, S., Wood, A., Banks, C., Agoulnik, D., Hadlock, T., & Niedenthal, P. (2016). Facial mimicry is asymmetrical in an anatomical way. JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, 18(3), 222-227.

Wood, A., Lupyan, G. & Niedenthal, P. (2016). Why do we need emotion words in the first place? Commentary on Lakoff (2015). Emotion Review, 8, 274-275.

Mermillod, M., Grynberg, D., Beffara, B., Rychlowska, M., Lopez, L., Vermeulen, N., Niedenthal P., & Droit-Volet, S. (2016). When the good guy becomes the bad boy: Social information modulates the neural, physiological and subjective responses to emotional facial expressions. bioRxiv, 077834.

Cañadas, E., Lupiáñez, J., Kawakami, K., Niedenthal, P. M., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2016). Perceiving emotions: Cueing social categorization processes and attentional control through facial expressions. Cognition and Emotion, 30(6), 1149-1163.

Korb, S., Malsert, J., Strathearn, L., Vuilleumier, P., & Niedenthal, P. (2016). Sniff and mimic—Intranasal oxytocin increases facial mimicry in a sample of men. Hormones and Behavior, 84, 64-74.

2015

Wood, A., Lupyan, G., Sherrin, S., & Niedenthal, P. (2015). Altering sensorimotor feedback disrupts visual discrimination of facial expressions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 1150-1156. doi:10.3758/s13423-015-0974-5

Wood, A. & Niedenthal, P. (2015). Language limits the experience of emotions: Comment on “The Quartet Theory of Human Emotions: An integrative and neurofunctional model” by S. Koelsch et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 13, 95-98.

Rychlowska, M., Miyamoto, Y., Matsumoto, D., Hess, U., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Kamble, S., ... & Niedenthal, P. M. (2015). Heterogeneity of long-history migration explains cultural differences in reports of emotional expressivity and the functions of smiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(19), E2429-E2436.

Korb, S., Malsert, J., Rochas, V., Rihs, T. A., Rieger, S. W., Schwab, S., Niedenthal, P., & Grandjean, D. (2015). Gender differences in the neural network of facial mimicry of smiles–An rTMS study. Cortex, 70, 101-114.

Villepoux, A., Vermeulen, N., Niedenthal, P., & Mermillod, M. (2015). Evidence of fast and automatic gender bias in affective priming. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27(3), 301-309.

2010-2014

Rychlowska, M., Canadas, E., Wood, A., Krumhuber, E. G., Fischer, A., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2014). Blocking Mimicry Makes True and False Smiles Look the Same. PLoS ONE, 9, e90876. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090876

Rychlowska, M., Korb, S., Brauer, M., Droit-Volet, S., Augustinova, M., Zinner, L., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2014). Pacifiers disrupt adults’ responses to infants’ emotions. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 36(4), 299-308.

Korb, S., Niedenthal, P., Kaiser, S., & Grandjean, D. (2014). The perception and mimicry of facial movements predict judgments of smile authenticity. PloS one, 9(6), e99194.

Vermeulen, N., Niedenthal, P. M., Pleyers, G., Bayot, M., & Corneille, O. (2014). Emotion-specific load disrupts concomitant affective processing. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(9), 1655-1660.

Carr, E. W., Korb, S., Niedenthal, P. M., & Winkielman, P. (2014). The two sides of spontaneity: Movement onset asymmetries in facial expressions influence social judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 31-36.

Niedenthal, P. M., Augustinova, M., Rychlowska, M., Droit-Volet, S., Zinner, L., Knafo, A., & Brauer, M. (2012). Negative relations between pacifier use and emotional competence. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 34(5), 387-394.

Niedenthal, P. M., & Brauer, M. (2012). Social functionality of human emotion. Annual review of psychology, 63, 259-285.

Rychlowska, M., Zinner, L., Musca, S. C., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2012, October). From the eye to the heart: Eye contact triggers emotion simulation. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction (p. 5). ACM.

Ishii, K., Miyamoto, Y., Mayama, K., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2011). When your smile fades away: Cultural differences in sensitivity to the disappearance of smiles. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2(5), 516-522.

Maringer, M., Krumhuber, E. G., Fischer, A. H., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2011). Beyond smile dynamics: mimicry and beliefs in judgments of smiles. Emotion, 11(1), 181.

Mermillod, M., Vermeulen, N., Droit-Volet, S., Jalenques, I., Durif, F., & Niedenthal, P. (2011). Embodying emotional disorders: new hypotheses about possible emotional consequences of motor disorders in parkinson's disease and tourette's syndrome. ISRN neurology, 2011.

Niedenthal, P. M., Mermillod, M., Maringer, M., & Hess, U. (2010). The Simulation of Smiles (SIMS) model: Embodied simulation and the meaning of facial expression. Behavioral and brain sciences, 33(06), 417-433.

Niedenthal, P. M., Augustinova, M., & Rychlowska, M. (2010). Body and mind: Zajonc’s (re) introduction of the motor system to emotion and cognition. Emotion Review, 2(4), 340-347.

Niedenthal, P. M. (2010). What Bob Zajonc Taught Us: An Introduction to the Teacher and the Teachings. Emotion Review, 2(4), 315-319.

2000-2009

Nugier, A., Chekroun, P., Pierre, K. & Niedenthal, P.M. (2009). Group membership influences social control of perpetrators of uncivil behaviors. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 508-523.  

Rohmann, A., Niedenthal, P.M., Brauer, M., Castano, E., & Leyens, J-P. (2009). The attribution of primary and secondary emotions to the in-group and to the out- group. The case of equal status countries. Journal of Social Psychology, 149, 709-730.  

Niedenthal, P.M., Winkielman, P., Mondillon, L., & Vermeulen, N. (2009). Embodied emotion concepts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 120-136.  

Mermillod, M., Vermeulen, N., Niedenthal, P.M., & Lundqvist, D. (2009). Neural computation as a tool to distinguish perceptual from emotion processes: The case of the anger superiority effect. Cognition, 110, 346-357.   

Niedenthal, P.M., & Maringer, M. (2009). Embodied emotion considered. Emotion Review.

Vermeulen, N., Corneille, O., & Niedenthal, P.M. (in press). Sensory load incurs conceptual processing costs. Cognition, 109, 287-294.   

Nugier, A., Niedenthal, P.M., & Brauer, M. (2009). Influence de l’appartenance groupale sur les réactions émotionnelles au contrôle social informel. [An influence of group membership on emotional reactions to informal social control]. L’Année psychologique, 109, 61-78.

Rohmann, A., Niedenthal, P.M., Brauer, M., Castano, E., & Leyens, J-P. (2009). The attribution of primary and secondary emotions to the in-group and to the out- group. The case of equal status countries. Journal of Social Psychology, 149, 709-730.

Vermuelen, N., Niedenthal, P.M., & Luminet, O. (2007). Switching between sensory and affective systems incurs processing costs. Cognitive Science, 31, 183-192. 

Niedenthal, P.M. (May 18, 2007). Embodying emotion. Science, 316, 1002-1005.  

Gil, S., Niedenthal, P.M., & Droit-Volet, S. (2007). Anger and temporal perception of emotion. Emotion, 7, 219-225. 

Mondillon, L., Niedenthal, P.M., Gil, S., & Droit-Volet, S. (2007). Imitation of in-group versus out-group members' facial expressions of anger: A test with a time perception task. Social Neuroscience, 2, 223-237. 

Nugier, A., Niedenthal, P.M., Brauer, M., & Chekroun, P. (2007). Moral and angry emotions provoked by informal social control. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 1699-1720.

Chambon, M., Droit-Volet, S., & Niedenthal, P.M. (2007). The effect of embodying the elderly on temporal perception. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 672- 677.

Effron, D., Niedenthal, P.M., Gil, S., & Droit-Volet, S., (2006). Embodied temporal perception of emotion. Emotion, 6, 1-9. 

Sanitioso, R.B., & Niedenthal, P.M. (2006). Motivated self-perception and perceived ease in recall of autobiographical memories. Self and Identity, 5. 73-84.

Fraley, R. C., Niedenthal, P. M., Marks, M. J., Brumbaugh, C. C., & Vicary, A. (2006). Adult attachment and the perception of facial expressions of emotion: Probing the -hyperactivating strategies underlying anxious attachment. Journal of Personality, 74, 1163-1190. 

Chambon, M., Gil, S., Niedenthal, P.M., & Droit-Volet, S. (2005). Psychologie sociale et perception du temps: l’estimation temporelle des stimuli sociaux et émotionnels. [Social psychology and time perception: Temporal estimations of social and emotional stimuli]. Psychologie Française, 50, 167-180.

Niedenthal, P.M., Barsalou, L.W., Winkielman, P., Krauth-Gruber, S., & Ric, F. (2005). Embodiment in attitudes, social perception, and emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 9, 184-211.

Mondillon, L., Niedenthal, P.M., Brauer, M., Rohmann, A., Dalle, N., & Uchida, Y. (2005). Beliefs about power and its relation to emotional experience: A comparison of Japan, France, Germany and the United  States. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1112-1122. 

Brauer, M., Chambres, P., Niedenthal, P.M., & Chatard-Pannetier, A. (2004). The relationship between expertise and evaluative extremity: The moderating role of experts' task characteristics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 5-18.  

Droit-Volet, S., Brunot, S., & Niedenthal, P.M. (2004). Perception of the duration of emotional events. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 849-858.

Feldman-Barrett, L. & Niedenthal, P.M. (2004). Valence focus and perceptions of facial affect. Emotion, 4, 266-274.

Mondillon, L., Dalle, N., Niedenthal, P.M., & Brauer, M. (2004). Emotions et pouvoir: Une Etude interculturelle [Emotion and power: A cross-cultural study]. Microscoop, Le journal du CNRS, 44, 10-11.

Brauer, M., Abric, J. C., Drozda-Senkowska, E., Lemaire, P., Lorenzi-Cioldi, F., Niedenthal, P. M., Sanitioso, R. B., Schadron, G., Steiner, D., & Yzerbyt, V. (2003). Doctoral training in the French-speaking countries of Europe: Objectives and suggestions for improvement. European Psychologist, 8, 9-17. 

Niedenthal, P.M. Auxiette, K., Nugier, A., Dalle, N., Bonin, P., & Fayol, M. (2003). A prototype analysis of the French category "émotion". Cognition and Emotion, 18, 289-312.

Dalle, N., & Niedenthal, P.M. (2003). Emotion et cohérence conceptuelle. [Emotion and conceptual coherence]. L’Année Psychologique, 104, 585-616.

Bonin, P., Méot, A., Aubert, L., Niedenthal, P.M., & Capelle-Toczek, M-C. (2003). Normes de concrétude, de valeur d’imagerie, de fréquence subjective et de valence émotionnelle pour 866 mots [Norms of concreteness, imagery value, subjective frequence, and emotional valence for 866 words]. L’Année Psychologique, 104, 655-694.

Chatard-Pannetier, A., Brauer, M., Chambres, P., & Niedenthal, P.M. (2002). Représentation, catégorisation et évaluation : Différences entre experts et novices dans le domaine des meubles d’antiquité. [Representation, categorization, and evaluation: Differences between novices and experts in the domain of antique furniture]. L'Année Psychologique, 102, 423-448.

Niedenthal, P.M., Brauer, M., Robin, L.& Innes-Ker, A.H. (2002). Adult attachment and the perception of facial expression of emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 419-433.  

Innes-Ker, A. & Niedenthal, P.M. (2002). Emotion concepts and emotional states in social judgment and categorization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83, 804–816.  

Niedenthal, P.M., Ric, F., & Krauth-Gruber, S. (2002). Explaining emotion congruence (and its absence) in terms of perceptual simulation. [Comment on J. Forgas,“Feeling and Doing: Affective influences on interpersonal behavior”] Psychological Inquiry, 13, 80-83.

Showers, C., Niedenthal, P.M., & Nugier, A. (2002). Self-structure and the acquisition of new self-relevant beliefs. Revue International de Psychologie Sociale/International Review of Social Psychology, 15, 25-46.

Brauer, M., Abric, J. C., Drozda-Senkowska, E., Lorenzi-Cioldi, F., Niedenthal, P. M., Sanitioso, B., Schadron, G., Steiner, D., Yzerbyt, V. (2001). La formation doctorale en psychologie sociale dans les pays francophones: Objectifs et suggestions. [Doctoral training in social psychology in francophone countries: Objectives and suggestions]. Les Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale, 51-52, 95-102.

Halberstadt, J., & Niedenthal, P.M. (2001). Effects of emotion concepts on perceptual memory for emotional expressions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 587-598. 

Niedenthal, P.M., & Dalle, N. (2001). Le mariage de mon meilleur ami: Emotional response categorization during naturally-induced emotional states. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 737-742. 

Niedenthal, P.M., Brauer, M., Halberstadt, J.B., & Innes-Ker, A.H. (2001). When did her smile drop? Contrast effects in the influence of emotional state on the detection of change in emotional expression. Cognition and Emotion, 15, 853-864.

Niedenthal, P.M., Halberstadt, J.B., Margolin, J., & Innes-Ker, A.H. (2000). Emotional state and the detection of change in facial expression of emotion. European Journal of Social Psychology 30, 211-222.

Brauer, M., Niedenthal, P. M., & Chambres, P. (2000). La relation entre l'expertise et l'extrémisme évaluatif dans un système pluripartite. [The relationship between expertise and attitude extremity in a pluri-party system]. Les Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale, 45, 77-84.

Margolin, J., & Niedenthal, P.M. (2000). Manipulating self-complexity with communication role assignment. Journal of Research in Personality, 34, 424-444.

1984-1999

Niedenthal, P.M., Halberstadt, J.B., & Innes-Ker, A.H. (1999). Emotional response categorization. Psychological Review, 106, 337-361. 

Tangney, J.P., Niedenthal, P.M., Covert, M.V., & Hill-Barlow, D. (1998). Are shame and guilt related to distinct self-discrepancies? A test of Higgins 1987 hypotheses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 262-268. 

Niedenthal, P.M., Halberstadt, J., & Setterlund, M.B. (1997). Being happy and seeing "happy": Emotional state facilitates visual word recognition. Cognition and Emotion, 11, 594-624.

Niedenthal, P.M., & Beike, D. (1997). Interrelated and isolated self-concepts. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1, 106-128. 

Halberstadt, J.B., & Niedenthal, P.M. (1997). Emotional state and the use of stimulus dimensions in judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 1017-1033. 

Catrambone, R., Beike, D., & Niedenthal, P.M. (1996). Is the self-concept an habitual referent in judgments of similarity? Psychological Science, 7, 158-163.

Halberstadt, J.B., Niedenthal, P.M., & Kushner, J. (1995). Resolution of lexical ambiguity by emotional state. Psychological Science, 6, 278-282. 

Niedenthal, P.M., Tangney, J., & Gavanski, I. (1994). "If only I weren't" versus "If only I hadn't": Discriminating shame and guilt in counterfactual thinking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 585-595. 

Niedenthal, P.M., & Setterlund, M.B. (1994). Emotion congruence in perception. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 401-411.

Setterlund, M.B. & Niedenthal, P.M. (1993). "Who am I? Why am I here?": Self-esteem, self- clarity, and prototype-matching. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 4, 769-780. 

Niedenthal, P.M., Setterlund, M., & Wherry, M.B. (1992). Possible self-complexity and affective reactions to goal-relevant evaluation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 5-16.

Isen, A.M., Niedenthal, P.M., & Cantor, N. (1992). An influence of positive affect on social categorization. Motivation and Emotion, 16, 65-78.

Niedenthal P.M., & Mordkoff, J.T. (1991). Prototype distancing: A strategy for choosing among threatening decisions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17, 483-493.

Niedenthal, P.M. (1990). Implicit perception of affective information. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 26, 505-527.

Salovey, P., & Niedenthal, P.M. (1990). Bear Traps. [A review of D. Wegner, White bear and other unwanted thoughts: Suppression, obsession, and the psychology of mental control.] Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 10, 101-103.

Zajonc, R.B., Adelmann, P.K., Murphy, S.T., & Niedenthal, P.M. (1987). Convergence in the physical appearance of spouses: An implication of the vascular theory of emotional efference. Motivation and Emotion, 11, 335-346.

Cantor, N., Norem, J.K., Niedenthal, P.M., Langston, C., & Brower, A. (1987). Social intelligence in a life transition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 1178-1191. 

Niedenthal, P.M., & Cantor, N. (1986). Affective responses as guides to category-based inferences. Motivation and Emotion, 10, 271-232.

Niedenthal, P.M., Cantor, N., & Kihlstrom, J.F. (1985). Prototype-matching: A strategy for social decision-making. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48, 575-584.

Niedenthal, P.M., & Cantor, N. (1984). Making use of social prototypes: From fuzzy concepts to firm decisions. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 14, 5-27.

Books

Niedenthal, P.M. & Ric, F. (2017). Psychology of Emotion, 2nd edition. New York: Routledge Press. 

Niedenthal, P. M., & Kitayama, S. (Eds.). (2013). The heart's eye: Emotional influences in perception and attention. Academic Press.

Niedenthal, P.M., Krauth-Gruber, S., & Ric, F. (2008). Comprendre des émotions. Wavre (Belgique), Editions Maragda. (This is a translation of the 2006 textbook).

Niedenthal, P.M., Kruth-Gruber, S., & Ric, F. (2006). The Psychology of Emotion: Interpersonal, Experiential, and Cognitive Approaches. Principles of Social Psychology series. New York: Francis and Taylor.

Feldman-Barrett, L., Niedenthal, P.M., & Winkielman, P. (Eds.) (2005). Emotion: Conscious and Unconscious. New York: Guilford Press.

Eich, E., Kihlstrom, J.F., Bower, G.H., Forgas, J.P., Niedenthal, P.M. (2000). Cognition and Emotion. New York: Oxford University Press.

Niedenthal, P.M., & Kitayama, S. (Eds.) (1994). The Heart's Eye: Emotional influences in perception and attention. New York: Academic Press.

Chapters

Wood, A., Martin, J., & Niedenthal, P (2017). How are emotions physically embodied? In (Eds.) A. Fox, R. Lapate, A. Shackman, & R. Davidson, The Nature of Emotion (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Niedenthal, P., Wood, A., Rychlowska, M., & Korb, S. (2017). Embodied simulation in decoding facial expression. In (Eds.) J. Russell & J. Fernandez-Dols, The Science of Facial Expression. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Niedenthal, P., Korb, S., Wood, A., & Rychlowska, M. (2016). Revisiting the Simulation of Smiles Model: The what, when, and why of mimicking smiles. In Ursula Hess & Agneta Fisher (Eds.), Emotional mimicry in social context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 44-71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Winkielman, P., Niedenthal, P., Wielgosz, J., Eelen, J., & Kavanagh, L. C. (2015). Embodiment of cognition and emotion. APA handbook of personality and social psychology, 1, 151-175.

Niedenthal, P.M., Wood, A., & Rychlowska, M. (2014). Embodied Emotional Concepts. In L. Shapiro (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition. Oxford: Routledge Philosophy.

Niedenthal, P. M., Rychlowska, M., & Szarota, P. (2013). Embodied Simulation and the Human Smile. In (Eds.) D. Cervone, M. Fajkowska, M. Eysenck, & T. Maruszewski, Personality Dynamics: Embodiment, Meaning Construction, and the Social World.  

Hostetter, A. B., Alibali, M. W., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2012). Embodied social thought: Linking social concepts, emotion, and gesture. The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition, 211.

Kavanagh, L., & Niedenthal, P. (2012). Embodied Simulation as Grounds for Emotion Concepts. In P. Wilson (Ed.) Dynamicity in Emotion Concepts.

Niedenthal, P. M., Eelen, J., & Maringer, M. (2011). Embodiment and social cognition. Oxford library of psychology.

Niedenthal, P.M., & Brauer, M. (2011). Social functionality of human emotions. In S.T. Fiske (Ed.), Annual Review of Psychology, Vol, 62, 259-285.

Niedenthal, P.M. (2011). Some things get better with age. In R. Arkin (Ed.) Most underappreciated: 50 prominent social psychologists talk about hidden gems. New Work: Oxfor University Press.

Kavanagh, L., Niedenthal, P. & Winkielman, P. (2011). Embodied simulation as grounds for emotion concepts. In P. Wilson (Ed.), Lodz Studies in Language. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Niedenthal, P.M., Eelen, J., & Marginer, M. (2011). Embodiment and social cognition. In J. Decety and J. T. Cacioppo, Handbook of social neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.

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