Edited books
Hess, U. & Philippot, P. (Eds.), 2007. Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression. New York, Cambridge University Press
Hess, U. & Fischer, A. (2016). Emotional Mimicry in Social Context. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press
Hess, U. & Hareli, S. (2019). The Social Nature of Emotion Expression: What Emotions Can Tell Us About the World. Springer.
Hess, U., Adams, R. B., Jr., Kleck, R. E. (forthcoming). Cambridge, UK, Emotion Communication by the Aging Face and Body. Cambridge University Press.
Textbooks
Vallerand, R. J. & Hess, U. (Eds.), 2000. Méthodes de recherche en psychologie. Boucherville, Qc: Gaëtan Morin
Hess, U. 2017. Allgemeine Psychologie II. Motivation und Emotion. Stuttgart, Kohlhammer
Articles and Chapters (citation statistics)
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2010 and prior: Articles
2010 and prior: Chapters and Proceedings
2023 and in press
Davis, J., Coulson, S., Blaison, C., Hess, U., Winkielman, P. (2023). Mimicry of partially occluded emotional faces: Do we mimic what we see or what we know? Cognition & Emotion, 36, 1555-1575. PDF
2022
Scarantino, A., Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (in press). Emotional expressions as appeals to recipients. Emotion, , 22, 1856–1868. PDF
Lasalle, M. & Hess, U. (2022). A motivational approach to perfectionism and striving for excellence: Development of a new continuum-based scale for post-secondary students. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:1022462. URL
Hess, U. & Fischer, A. (2022): Emotional mimicry as social regulator: Theoretical considerations, Cognition and Emotion, DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2022.210352. URL
Brandenburg, J.; Albohn, D.; Bernstein, M.; Soto, J.; Hess, U.; Adams, R. B. (2022). Facing Social Exclusion: A Facial EMG Examination of the Reaffiliative Function of Smiling. Cognition & Emotion, 36, 741-749. PDF
Mauersberger, H., Kastendieck, T., & Hess, U. (2022). I looked at you, you looked at me, I smiled at you, you smiled at me—The impact of eye contact on mimicry. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.970954. URL
Mauersberger, H., Kastendieck, T., Hetmann, A., Schöll, A., & Hess, U. (2022). The Different Shades of Laughter: When Do We Laugh and When Do We Mimic Other’s Laughter? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377:2021018820210188. PDF
Mauersberger, H., Tune, J. L., Kastendieck, T., Czarna, A., Hess, U. (2022). Higher Heart Rate Variability Predicts Better Affective Interaction Quality in Non-intimate Social Interactions. Psychophysiology, e14084. URL
Hess, U. & Kafetsios, K. (2022). Infusing context into emotion perception impacts emotion decoding accuracy: A Truth and bias model. Experimental Psychology, 68, 285-294. URL
Hess; U., Rychlowska, M., Storz, T., Blaison, C., Fischer, A., Krumhube, E. G. (2022). Bridging the empathy gap – or not? Reactions to ingroup and outgroup facial expressions. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 6, 77-92. 10.1007/s41809-022-00097-w. URL
Kafetsios, K. & Hess, U. (2022). Personality and the accurate perception of facial emotion expressions: What is accuracy and how does it matter? Emotion, 22, 100-114. PDF
Hareli, S., David, O., Basis, F., & Hess, U. (2022). Does It Pay to Treat Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019? Social Perception of Physicians Treating Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 [Original Research]. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.781220. URL
Kastendieck1, T., Zillmer, S., & Hess, U.(2022). (Un)mask Yourself! Effects of Face Masks on Facial Mimicry and Emotion Perception During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cognition & Emotion, 36, 59-69. PDF
Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2022). Apologies, forgiveness and the social perception of emotions. In S. Gesine Lenore, A. Jeanette, & N. Bee Chin (Eds.), Language and Emotion (Vol. 1, pp. 650-663). De Gruyter Mouton. PDF
2021
Flykt, A., Hörlin, T., Linder, F., Wennstig, A.-K., Sayeler, G., Hess, U., & Bänziger, T. (2021). Exploring emotion recognition and the understanding of others’ unspoken thoughts and feelings when narrating self-experienced emotional events. Journal of Nonverbal Psychology, 45, 67-81. PDF
Löwenbrück, F. & Hess, U. (2021). Not all “caregivers” are created equal: Influence of parenthood and basal testosterone on baby schema effects in men and women. Biological Psychology, 163, 108120. PDF
Hareli, S., Elkabetz, S., Hanoch, Y., & Hess, U. (2021). Social Perception of Risk-Proneness as a Function of Emotion Expressions. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1815.
Hess, U. (2021). Presidential Address 2019: Who to whom and why: The social nature of emotional mimicry. Psychophysiology, 58, 1, e13675.
Kastendieck, T., Mauersberger, H., Blaison, C., Ghalib, J., & Hess, U. (2021). Laughing at funerals and frowning at weddings: Top-down influences of context-driven social judgments on emotional mimicry. Acta Psychologica, 212, 103195.
2020
Freudenberg, M., Albohn, D.N., Kleck, R. E., Adams Jr., R. B., & Hess, U. (2020). Emotional Stereotypes on Trial: Implicit Emotion Associations for Young and Old Adults. Emotion, 20, 1244-1254. PDF
Hareli, S., David, O., & Hess, U. (2020). What facial expressions of emotions tell us about the health of others? Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2916. URL
Lennefer, T., Lopper, E. Wiedemann, A., Hess, U. & Hoppe, A. (2020). Improving Employees’ Work-Related Well-Being and Physical Health through a Technology-Based Physical Activity Intervention: A Randomized Intervention-Control Group Study. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 25, 143–158. PDF
Hess, U., Dietrich, J., Kafetsios, K., Elkabetz, S., & Hareli, S. (i2020). The bidirectional influence of emotion expressions and context: Emotion expressions, situational information and real-world knowledge combine to inform observers' judgments of both the emotion expressions and the situation. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 143-158. URL
Blaison, C., Kastendieck, T., Ramadier, T., & Hess, U. (2019). Hotspots and Borders Interact in People´s Affective Perception of Their Environment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 101337. PDF
Olszanowski, M., Wrobel, M., & Hess, U. (2020). Mimicking and sharing emotions: A re-examination of the link between facial mimicry and emotional contagion.
Cognition and Emotion, 34, 367-376. URL
2019
Küster, D., Krumhuber, E., & Hess, U. (2019). You are what you wear - unless you moved: Effects of attire and posture on person perception. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 43, 23-38 PDF
Mauersberger1, H., Hess, U., & Hoppe, A. (2019). Measuring task conflicts as they occur: A real-time assessment of task conflicts and their immediate emotional and cognitive consequences. Journal of Business and Psychology. 10.1007/s10869-019-09640-z PDF
Landmann, H. Cova, F., Hess, U. (2019). Being moved by meaningfulness: Appraisals of surpassing internal standards elicit being moved by relationships and achievements. Cognition and Emotion, 33, 1387-1409. PDF
Hareli, S., Elkabetz, S., & Hess, U. (2019). Drawing inferences from emotion expressions: The role of situative informativeness and context. Emotion, 19, 200-208. PDF
Drimalla, H., Landwehr, N., Hess, U. & Dziobek, I. (2019). From face to face: the contribution of facial mimicry to cognitive and emotional empathy. Cognition and Emotion, 33, 1672-1686. URL
Kafetsios, K., & Hess, U. (2019). Seeing mixed emotions: Alexithymia, emotion perception bias, and quality in dyadic interactions. Personality and Individual Differences, 137, 80-85. PDF
Hess, U., & Hareli, S. (2019). The Emotion-Based Inferences in Context (EBIC) Model. In The Social Nature of Emotion Expression (pp. 1-5): Springer. PDF
Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2019). The Reverse Engineering of Emotions–Observers of Others’ Emotions as Naïve Personality Psychologists. In The Social Nature of Emotion Expression (pp. 103-118): Springer. PDF
Hareli, S., Elkabetz, S., & Hess, U. (2019). The Use of Emotions to Infer Norms and Standards. In The Social Nature of Emotion Expression (pp. 199-208): Springer. PDF
2018
Hareli, S., Smoly, M., Hess, U. (2018). Help me Obi-Wan: The influence of facial dominance on perceptions of helpfulness. Social Influence, 13, 163-176. PDF
Mauersberger, H., Hoppe, A., Brockmann, G., & Hess, U. (in press). Only reappraisers profit from reappraisal instructions: Effects of instructed and habitual reappraisal on stress responses during interpersonal conflicts. Psychophysiology, 55, e13086. PDF
Hess, U., Landmann, H., David, S., & Hareli, S. (i2018). The bidirectional relation of emotion perception and social judgments: The effect of witness’ emotion and vice versa. Cognition and Emotion, 6, 1152-1165. URL
Hühnel, I., Kuszynski, J., Asendorpf, J., & Hess, U. (2018). Emotional mimicry of older adults' expressions: Effects of partial inclusion in a Cyberball paradigm. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 92-101. PDF
Hess, U. & Hareli, S. (2018). On the malleability of the meaning of contexts: The influence of another person’s emotion expressions on situation perception. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 185-191. URL
Landmann, H. & Hess, U. (2018). Testing moral foundation theory: Are specific moral emotions elicited by specific moral transgressions? The Journal of Moral Education, 47, 34-47. PDF
Kafetsios, K., Hess, U., & Nezlek, J. B. (2018). Self-construal, affective valence of the encounter, and quality of social interactions: Within and cross-culture examination. The Journal of Social Psychology, 158, 82-92. PDF
2017
Blaison, C., Gebauer, J. E., Gollwitzer, M., Schott, F., Kastendieck, T. M., & Hess, U. (2017). On the Combined Influence of Attractive and Unattractive Locations on the Surroundings. Environment and Behavior, 0013916517722178. doi:10.1177/0013916517722178. PDF
Fischer, A. & Hess, U. (2017). Mimicking emotions. Current Opinions in Psychology, 17, 151-155. PDF
Landmann, H. & Hess, U. (i2017). What elicits third-party anger? The effects of moral violation and others' outcome on anger and compassion. Cognition and Emotion, 31, 1097-1111. PDF
Palumbo, R., Adams, R. B. Jr., Hess, U., Kleck, R. E. & Zebrowitz, L. (2017). Age and gender differences in facial attractiveness, but not emotion resemblance, contribute to age and gender stereotypes. Frontiers Psychology, 8 (1704). URL
Blaison, C., Gollwitzer, M., & Hess, U. (2017). Effects of "hotspots" as a function of intrinsic neighborhood attractiveness. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 51, 57-69. PDF
Hess, U., Blaison, C., & Dandeneau, S. (2017). The impact of rewards on empathic accuracy and emotional mimicry. Motivation and Emotion, 41, 107-112. PDF
Hess, U., Arslan, R., Mauersberger, H., Blaison, C., Dufner, M., Denissen, J. J. A., & Ziegler, M., (2017). Reliability of Surface Facial Electromyography. Psychophysiology, 54, 12-23. PDF
Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2017). Facial expressions and emotion. Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer. PDF
Hess, U. (2017). Body Language. Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer. PDF
Hess, U. (2017). Emotion Categorization (pp. 107-126). In: C. Lefebvre & H. Cohen Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science, 2nd Ed. Amsterdam, Elsevier. PDF
Hess, U., & Hareli, S. (2017). The social signal value of emotions: The role of contextual factors in social inferences drawn from emotion displays (pp. 375-392). In J. Russell & J.-M. Fernandez-Dols (Eds.), The Psychology of Facial Expression. PDF
Hess, U. & Fischer, A. (2017). The Role of Emotional Mimicry in Intergroup Relations. In: Encyclopedia of Intergroup Communication, Eds. Howard Giles and Jake Harwood. New York: Oxford University Press. PDF URL
2016
Hess, U., Kafetsios, K., Mauersberger, H., Blaison, C., & Kessler, C.-L. (2016). Signal and Noise in the Perception of Facial Emotion Expressions: From Labs to Life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 1092-1110. PDF
Hareli, S., David, S., & Hess, U. (2016). The role of emotion transition for the perception of social dominance and affiliation. Cognition and Emotion, 30, 1260-1270. PDF
Hess, U., Blaison, C., Kafetsios, K., (2016). Judging facial emotion expressions in context: The influence of culture and self-construal orientation. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 40, 55-64. PDF
Adams, R.B., Garrido, C.O., Albohn, D. N., Hess, U. & Kleck, R. E. (2016). What facial appearance reveals over time: When perceived expressions in neutral faces reveal stable emotion dispositions. Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 986 URL
Hess, U., David, S., & Hareli, S. (2016): Emotional restraint is for good for men only: The influence of emotional restraint on perceptions of emotional competence. Emotion, 16, 208-213. PDF
Hess, U., Cossette, M., & Hareli, S. (2016). I and my friends are good people: The perception of incivility by self, friends and strangers. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 12, 99-114. PDF
Hess, U., & Hareli, S., (i2016). The impact of context on the perception of emotions (pp. 199-218). In: Abell, C. and Smith, J. (Ed.). The Expression of Emotion: Philosophical, Psychological, and Legal Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. PDF
Fischer, A. H. & Hess, U. (2016). Introduction: why and how we mimic emotions (pp. 1-6). In: Hess, U. & Fischer, A. (Eds.). Emotional Mimicry in Social Context. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press.
Hess, U., Hühnel, I., van der Schalk, J. & Fischer, A. (2016). The social dimension as antecedent and effect of emotional mimicry (pp. 90-106). In: Hess, U. & Fischer, A. (Eds.). Emotional Mimicry in Social Context. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press.
Hess, U. & Fischer, A. (2016). Conclusion: toward a better understanding of emotional mimicry (pp. 222-229). In: Hess, U. & Fischer, A. (Eds.). Emotional Mimicry in Social Context. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press.
2015
Mauersberger, H., Blaison, C., Kafetsios, K., Kessler, C.-L., Hess, U. (2015). Individual differences in emotional mimicry: Underlying traits and social consequences. European Journal of Personality, 29, 512-529. PDF
Fölster, M., Hess, U., Hühnel, I., & Werheid, K. (2015). Age-related Response Bias in the Decoding of Sad Facial Expressions. Behavioral Sciences, 5, 443-460. URL
Hareli, S., Kafetsios, K., & Hess U (2015) A cross-cultural study on emotion expression and the learning of social norms. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:1501. URL
Freudenberg, M., Adams, R. B. Jr., Kleck, R. E., Hess, U. (2015). Through a glass darkly: Facial wrinkles affect our processing of emotion in the elderly. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1476. URL
Rychlowska, M., Miyamoto, Y., Matsumoto, D., Hess, U., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Kamble, S., Muluk, H, Masuda, T., Niedenthal, P.M. (in press). 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 of the United States of America. PDF
Cossette, M. & Hess, U. (2015). Service with Style and a Smile. How and Why Employees are Performing Emotional Labour. European Review of Applied Psychology, 65, 71-82. PDF
Kafetsios, K., & Hess, U. (2015). Are you looking at me? The influence of facial orientation and cultural focus salience on the perception of emotion expressions. Cogent Psychology, 2: 1005493 URL
David, S., Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2015). The influence on perceptions of truthfulness of the emotional expressions shown when talking about failure. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 11, 125-138. PDF
Hess, U. (2015). Introduction: Gender and Emotion. Emotion Review, 7, 4-4. PDF
Adams, R. B., Hess, U., & Kleck, R. E. (2015). The Intersection of Gender-Related Facial Appearance and Facial Displays of Emotion. Emotion Review, 7, 5-13. PDF
Hess, U. (2015). Nonverbal Communication (pp. 208-218). In: H. S. Friedman (EIC), Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 2nd Ed., Vol 3. Waltham, MA: Academic Press. PDF
Hess, U. & Hareli, S. (2015). The influence of context on emotion recognition in humans. In Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2015 11th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on (Vol. 3, pp. 1-6). PDF
Hess, U. & Hareli, S. (2015). The role of social context in the interpretation of emotion (pp. 119-141). In: M. K. Mandal & A. Awasthi (Eds.). Understanding facial expressions in communication: Cross-cultural and multidisciplinary Persperspectives. Springer. PDF
2014
Hess, U. & Fischer, A. (2014). Emotional Mimicry: Why and When We Mimic Emotions. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8, 45-57. PDF
Fölster, M., Hess, U. & Werheid, K. (2014). Facial age affects emotional expression decoding. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:30. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00030 PDF
Hareli, S., Zohar, E., David, S., Lasalle, M., & Hess, U. (2014). Seeing what you ought to see: The role of contextual factors in the social perception of achievement emotions. Motivation and Emotion, 38, 600-608. PDF
Hess, U. (2014). Anger is a positive emotion (pp. 55-75). In W. G. Parrott (Ed.) The Positive Side of Negative Emotions. Guilford Press. PDF
Hess, U., Houde, S. & Fischer, A. (2014). Do we mimic what we see or what we know (pp. 94-107)? In: von Scheve, C. & Salmela, M. (Eds.). Collective Emotions. Oxford University Press. PDF
2013
Seibt, B., Weyers, P., Likowski, K. U., Pauli, P., Mühlberger, A., & Hess, U. (2013). Subliminal Interdependence Priming Modulates Congruent and Incongruent Facial Reactions to Emotional Displays. Social Cognition, 31, 613-631. PDF
Hareli, S., David, S., Akrin, S., Hess, U. (2013). The effect of the negotiator's social power as a function of the counterpart's emotional reactions in a computer mediated negotiation. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 9, 820–831. PDF
Hühnel, I., Fölster, M., Werheidt, K. & Hess, U. (2013). Empathic reactions of younger and older adults: No age related decline in affective responding. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 50, 136-143. PDF
Hareli, S., David, S., & Hess, U. (2013). Competent but unemotional: The influence of occupational stereotypes on the attribution of emotions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 37, 307-317. PDF
Hareli, S., Moran-Amir, O., David, S. & Hess, U. (2013). Emotions as signals of normative conduct. Cognition & Emotion, 27, 1395-1404. PDF
Kafetsios, K. & Hess, U. (2013). Effects of activated and dispositional self-construal on emotion decoding accuracy. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 37, 191-205. PDF
Hess, U., Gryc, O., & Hareli, S. (2013). How shapes influence social judgments. Social Cognition, 31, 72-80. PDF
Hess, U. & Fischer, A. (2013). Emotional mimicry as social regulation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17, 142-157. PDF
Hess, U., Thibault, P., & Levesque, M. (2013). Where do emotional dialects come from? A comparison of the understanding of emotion terms between Gabon and Quebec (pp. 512-519). In J. R. J. Fontaine, K. R. Scherer & C. Soriano (Eds.), Components of emotional meaning: A sourcebook. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. PDF
2012
Adams, R. B., Nelson, A. J., Soto, J. A., Hess, U., & Kleck, R. E. (2012). Emotion in the Neutral Face: A Mechanism for Impression Formation? Cognition & Emotion, 26, 431-441. PDF
Hareli, S. & Hess, U. (2012). The social signal value of emotion. Cognition & Emotion, 26, 385-389. PDF
Blaison, C., Imhoff, R., Hühnerl, I., Hess, U., Banse, R. (2012). The Affect Misattribution Procedure: Hot or Not? Emotion, 12, 403-412. PDF
Hess, U., Adams, R. B., Simard, A., Stevenson, M. T., & Kleck, R. E. (2012). Smiling and sad wrinkles: Age-related changes in the face and the perception of emotions and intentions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1377-1380. PDF
Thibault, P., Levesque, M., Gosselin, P., & Hess, U. (2012). The Duchenne marker is NOT a universal signal of smile authenticity: but it can be learned! Special Issue of Social Psychology on Culture as Process, Social Psychology, 43, 215-221. PDF
Brody, S., Costa, R.M., & Hess, U. (2012). Immature psychological defense mechanisms and the misrepresentations of some sex researchers. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 27, 243-259. PDF
Brody, S., Costa, R.M., & Hess, U. (2012). Sometimes a bear is just a bear: No evidence of nonclinical adult toy animal ownership indicating emotion dysregulation. Journal of Adult Development, 19, 177-180. PDF
Brody, S., Simard, A., & Hess (2012. Men's sexual activity and perceptions of the facial attractiveness of unknown women. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 27, 372-376. PDF
Cossette, M., & Hess, U. (2012). Emotion Regulation strategies among customer service employees: A motivational approach (pp.329-352). In N. M. Ashkanasy, C. E. Härtel & W. J. Zerbe (Eds.), Research on Emotion in Organizations (Vol. 8). Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Group. PDF
Tassinary, L. G., Hess, U. & Carcoba, L. (2012). Peripheral physiological measures of psychological constructs. In: Cooper, H., Camic, P. M., Long, D. L., Panter, A. T., Rindskopf, D., Sher, K. J. (Eds), APA handbook of research methods in psychology, Vol 1: Foundations, planning, measures, and psychometrics, (pp. 461-488). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association
Thibault, P. & Hess, U. (2012). Les emotions: perspectives biologiques, cognitives et sociales. In: J. Descôteaux & A. Brault-Labbé (Eds.) Motivation et Émotion (pp. 159-208). Éditions CEC.
2011
Brody, S., Costa, R.M., Hess, U., & Weiss, P. (2011). Vaginal orgasm is related to better mental health and is relevant to evolutionary psychology: A response to Zietsch et al. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 8, 3523–3525. PDF
Debruille, B.J., Brodeur, M.B., & Hess, U. (2011. Assessing the way people look to judge their intentions. Emotion, 11, 533-543. PDF Correction
Hareli, S., Sharabi, M., Cossette, M., & Hess, U. (2011). Observer´ expectations regarding the emotional reactions of others in a failure context: The role of status and perceived dominance. Motivation and Emotion, 35, 52-62. PDF
Hareli, S., Sharabi. M., & Hess, U. (2011). Tell me who you are and I tell you how you feel: Expected emotional reactions to success and failure are influenced by knowledge about a person's personality. International Journal of Psychology, 46, 310-320. PDF
Halberstadt, A. G., Dennis, P. A., & Hess, U (2011). The influence of family expressiveness, individuals´ own emotionality, and self-expressiveness on perceptions of others´ facial expressions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 35, 35-50. PDF
Van der Schalk, J., Fischer, A. H., Doosje, B. J., Wigboldus, D., Hawk, S. T., Hess, U., & Rotteveel, M (2011). Congruent and incongruent responses to emotional displays of ingroup and outgroup. Emotion, 11, 286-298. PDF
Hess, U. (2011). Peripheral Psychophysiological Methods. In: K. C. Klauer, C. Stahl, & A. Voss (Eds.) Cognitive Methods in Social Psychology (pp. 265-303). Guilford Press.
2010 and prior: Articles
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, 417-433. PDF
Niedenthal, P.M., Mermillod, M., Maringer, M., & Hess, U (2010). The future of SIMS: Who embodies which smile and when? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 464-480. PDF
Hess, U., Thibault, Adams, R. B., Jr., & Kleck, R. E. (2010). The influence of gender, social roles and facial appearance on perceived emotionality. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 1310−1317. PDF
Brody, S., Houde, S., & Hess, U (2010). Greater tactile sensitivity and less use of immature psychological defense mechanisms predict women´s penile−vaginal intercourse orgasm. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 7, 3057-3065. PDF
Cohen, H., Gagné, M.−H., B., Hess, U., & Pourcher, E. (2010). Emotion and object processing in Parkinson´s disease. Brain and Cognition, 72, 457−463. PDF
Hareli, S. & Hess, U. (2010). What emotional reactions can tell us about the nature of others: An appraisal perspective on person perception. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 128-140. PDF
Hess, U. & Bourgeois, P. (2010). You smile − I smile: Emotion expression in social interaction. Biological Psychology, 84, 514-520. PDF
Hess, U., Adams, R. B., Jr., Grammer, K., & Kleck, R. E. (2009). Face gender and emotion expression: Are angry women more like men? Journal of Vision. 9(12), Article 19, 1-8. PDF
Hess, U., Adams, Jr, R.B. & Kleck, R. E. (2009). The face is not an empty canvas: How facial expressions interact with facial appearance. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B, 364, 3497-3504. PDF
Oosterijk, S., Rotteveel, M., Fischer, A. H., & Hess, U (2009). Embodied emotion concepts: How generating words about pride and disappointment influences posture. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 457-466. PDF
Hareli, S., Shomrat, N., & Hess, U. (2009). Emotional versus neutral expressions and perceptions of social dominance and submissiveness. Emotion, 9, 378-384. PDF
Hareli, S., Harush, R., Suleiman, R., Bergeron, S., Cossette, M., Lavoie, V., Dugay, G., & Hess, U. (2009). When scowling may be a good thing: The influence of anger expressions on credibility. Euroean Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 631-638. PDF
Wyers, P., Mühlberger, A., Kund, A., Hess, U., & Pauli. P. (2009). Modulation of facial reactions to avatar emotional faces by nonconscious competition priming. Psychophysiology, 46, 328-335. PDF
Hess, U. Adams, J. B., Jr., & Kleck, R. B (2009). The categorical perception of emotions and traits. Social Cognition, 27, 319-325. PDF
Thibault, P., Gosselin, P., Brunel, M.-L., & Hess, U. (2009). Children's and adolescents' perception of the authenticity of smiles. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 360-367. PDF
Hess, U., & Thibault, P. (2009). Darwin and emotion expression. American Psychologist, 64, 120-128. PDF
Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2008). When does feedback about success at school hurt? The role of causal attributions. Social Psychology of Education, 11, 258-272. PDF
Hareli, S. & Hess, U. (2008). The Role of Causal Attribution in Hurt Feelings and Related Social Emotions Elicited in Reaction to Other's Feedback about Failure. Cognition & Emotion, 22, 862-880. PDF
Brody, S., Fischer, A. H., & Hess, U. (2008). Women's finger sensitivity correlates with partnered sexual behavior but not solitary masturbation frequencies. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 34, 343-352. PDF
Hareli, S., Klang, M., & Hess, U. (2008). The Role of Career History in Gender Based Biases in Job Selection Decisions. Career Development International, 13, 252-269. PDF
Bourgeois, P. & Hess, U. (2008). The impact of social context on mimicry. Biological Psychology, 77, 343-352. PDF
Hess, U., Brody, S., van der Schalk, J. & Fischer, A. H. (2007). Sexual activity is inversely related to women's perceptions of the facial attractiveness of unknown men. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 1991-1997. PDF
Hess, U., Adams, R. B., Jr. & Kleck, R. E. (2007). Looking at you or looking elsewhere: The influence of head orientation on the signal value of emotional facial expressions. Motivation and Emotion, 31, 137-144. PDF
Yabar, Y., & Hess, U. (2007). Display of Empathy and Perception of Out-Group Members. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 36, 42-50. PDF
Hess, U., Sabourin, G., & Kleck, R. E. (2007). Postauricular and eye-blink startle responses to facial expressions. Psychophysiology, 44, 431-435. PDF
Lanctôt, N., & Hess, U. (2007). The timing of appraisals. Emotion, 7, 207-212. PDF
Elfenbein, H. A., Beaupré, M. G., Leveque, M., & Hess, U. (2007). Toward a dialect theory: Cultural differences in expressing and recognizing facial expressions. Emotion, 7, 131-146. PDF
Thibault, P., Bourgeois, P., & Hess, U. (2006). The effect of group-identification on emotion recognition: The case of cats and basketball players. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 676-683. PDF
Beaupré, M. G. & Hess, U. (2006). An in-group advantage for confidence in emotion recognition judgments: the moderating effect of familiarity with the expressions of out-group members. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , 32, 16-26. PDF
Beaupré, M.G, & Hess, U. (2005). Cross-cultural emotion recognition among Canadian ethnic groups. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology , 26, 355-370. PDF
Hess, U., Adams, R. B. Jr., & Kleck, R.E. (2005). Who may frown and who should smile? Dominance, affiliation, and the display of happiness and anger. Cognition & Emotion, 19, 515-536. PDF
Hess, U., Adams, R. B. Jr. & Kleck, R. E. (2004). Facial appearance, gender, and emotion expression. Emotion , 4, 378-388. PDF
Hess, U. Sénecal, S. & Thibeault, P. (2004). Do we know what we show? Individuals' perceptions of their own emotional reactions. Special Issue of Current Psychology of Cognition , 22, 247-265. PDF
Dujardin, K., Blairy, S., Defrebvre, L., Krystkowiak, P. Hess, U., Blond, S., & Destree, A (2004). Subthalamic nucleus stimulation induces deficits in decoding emotional facial expressions in Parkinson's disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry , 75, 2002-208. PDF
Dujardin, K., Blairy, S., Defrebvre, L., Duhem, S., Noel, Y., Hess, U., & Destree, A. (2004). Deficits in decoding emotional facial expressions in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia , 42, 239-250. PDF
Levesque, M., Blais, M. R., Hess, U. (2004). Motivation, comportements organisationnels discrétionnaires et bien-être en milieu Africain: Quand le devoir oblige? (Motivation, discretionary organizational behaviors, and wellbeing in an African setting: When is it a duty?). Revue canadienne de sciences du comportement. 36, 321-332. PDF
Levesque, M. , Blais, M.R., & Hess, U. (2004). Dynamique motivationnelle de l'epuisement et du bien-etre chez des enseignants africains (Motivational dynamic of burnout and well-being in African teachers). Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 36, 190-201. PDF
Beaupré, M.G, & Hess, U. (2003). In my mind, we all smile A case of in-group favoritism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 39, 371-377. PDF
Senécal, S., Murard, N., & Hess, U. (2003). Do you know what I feel? Partners' predictions and judgments of each other's emotional reactions to emotion-eliciting situations. Sex Roles , 48, 21-37. PDF
Kornreich, C., Foisy, M.-L., Philippot, P., Dan, B., Tecco, J., Noël, X., Hess, U.; Pelc, I., Verbanck, P. (2003). Impaired emotional facial expression recognition in alcoholics, opiate dependence subjects, methadone maintained subjects and mixed alcohol-opiate antecedents subjects compared with normal controls. Psychiatry Research, 119, 251-260. PDF
Beaupré, M.G, King, S., Bauer, I., Hess, U., Debruille, J.B, & Corrigan, P. (2002). Validation of French and English Canadian Versions of the Social Cue Recognition Test. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 47, 81-84. PDF
Kornreich, C., Philippot, P. Foisy, M. Blairy, S., Raynaud, E., Dan, B. Hess, U., Noël, X., Pelc, I., Verbanck, P., (2002). Impaired emotional facial expression recognition is associated with interpersonal problems in alcoholism. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 37, 394-400. PDF
Kornreich, C., Blairy, S. Philippot, P., Hess, U., Noël, X., Streel, E., Le Bon, O., Dan, B., Pelc, I., & Verbanck, P. (2001). Deficits in recognition of emotional facial expressions are still present in alcoholics after mid- to long-term abstinence. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 62, 533-542. PDF
Kornreich, C., Blairy, S. Philippot, P. Dan, B., Foisy, M.L.; Hess, U., LeBon, O.; Pelc, I.; Verbanck, P. (2001). Impaired emotional facial expression recognition in alcoholism compared with obsessive-compulsive disorder and normal controls. Psychiatry Research, 102, 235-248. PDF
Hess, U. & Blairy, S. (2001). Facial mimicry and emotional contagion to dynamic emotional facial expressions and their influence on decoding accuracy . International Journal of Psychophysiology , 40, 129-141. PDF
Hess, U. Blairy, S., & Kleck, R. E. (2000). The influence of expression intensity, gender, and ethnicity on judgments of dominance and affiliation. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 24, 265-283. PDF
Hess, U., Senécal, S., Herrera, P., Kirouac, K., Philippot, P., Kleck, R. E. (2000). Emotional expressivity in men and women: stereotypes versus self-perceptions. Cognition and Emotion, 14, 609-642. PDF
Blairy, S., Herrera, P., & Hess, U. (1999). Mimicry and the Judgment of Emotional Facial Expressions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 23, 5-41. PDF
Philippot, P. Kornreich, C., Blairy, S., Baert, I., Den Dulk, A., Le Bon, O., Hess, U., Pelc, I., & Verbanc, P. (1999). Alcoholics’ Deficits in the Decoding of Emotional Facial Expression. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 23, 1031-1038. PDF
Hess, U., Philippot, P., & Blairy, S. (1998). Facial reactions to emotional facial expressions: Affect or cognition? Cognition and Emotion, 12, 509-532. PDF
Hess, U., Blairy, S., & Kleck, R. E. (1997). The relationship between the intensity of emotional facial expressions and observers’ decoding. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 21, 241-257. PDF
Hess, U., Banse, R., & Kappas, A. (1995). The intensity of facial expression is determined by underlying affective state and social situation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 280-288. PDF
Kappas, A, Hess, U., Barr, C. L., & Kleck, R. E. (1994). Angle of regard: The effect of vertical viewing angle on the perception of facial expression. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 18, 263-280. PDF
Hess, U. & Kleck, R. E. (1994). The cues decoders use in attempting to differentiate emotion elicited and posed facial expressions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 24, 367-381. PDF
Bush, L. K., Hess, U., Wolford, G. (1993). Transformations for within-subject designs: A Monte Carlo Investigation. Psychological Bulletin, 113, 566-579. PDF
Hess, U., Kappas, A., McHugo, G. J., Lanzetta, J. T., & Kleck, R. E. (1992). The facilitative effect of facial expression on the self-generation of emotion. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 12, 251-265. PDF
Hess, U. & Kleck, R. E. (1990). Differentiating emotion elicited and deliberate emotional facial expressions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 20, 369-385. PDF
Kappas, A., Hess, U., & Kleck, R. E. (1990). The periscope-box: A non-obtrusive method of providing an eye-to-eye video perspective. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 22, 375-376. PDF
Hess, U., Kappas, A., McHugo, G. J., Kleck, R. E., & Lanzetta, J. T. (1989). An analysis of the encoding and decoding of spontaneous and posed smiles: The use of facial electromyography. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 13, 121-137. PDF
Chapters and proceedings 2010 and prior
Hess, U. (2009). Facial EMG. In: E. Harmon-Jones & J. S. Beer (Eds), Methods in the neurobiology of social and personality psychology (pp. 70-91). Guilford Press.
Hess, U. & Adams, R. B., Jr., Kleck, R. E. (2009). Inter-group misunderstandings in emotion communication. In: Demoulin, S., Leyens, J.-P., Dovidio, J. F. (Eds.), Intergroup misunderstandings: Impact of divergent social realities (pp. 85-100). Psychology Press.
Cossette, M., Blais, M.R., & Hess, U. (2008). Motivation au travail émotionnel, styles de service à la clientèle et épuisement professionnel. In: A.Balikdjian, C.Lemoine, N.Kridis, & P.Salengros, (Eds), Psychologie du travail et développement des personnes et des organisations. Tome III - Santé psychologique, stress et harcèlement au travail (pp. 77-86). Lille, France: Éditions de l'AIPTLF.
Hess, U. & Thibault, P. (2008). Faces and Emotions: Why the same expression may not mean the same when shown on different faces or seen by different people. In: J. Tao (Ed.), Affective Information Processing (pp. 145-158). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. PDF
Hess, U. (2008). Emotion und Ausdruck [Emotion and Expression]. In: M. Schmidt-Daffy, W. Janke & G. Debus (Eds.) Experimentelle Emotionspsychologie: Methodische Ansätze, Probleme und Ergebnisse [Experimental Psychology of Emotion: Methodological Approaches, Problems and Results], (pp. 409-424). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers. PDF
Hess, U., Adams, R. B., Jr., Kleck, R. E. (2008). The devil is in the details – the meanings of faces and how they influence the meanings of facial expressions. In: J. Or (Ed), Affective Computing: Focus on emotion expression, synthesis, and recognition (pp. 45-56). I-techonline/I-Tech. ISBN 978-3-902613-23-3 PDF
Hess, U, Adams, R. B. Jr., & Kleck, R. E. (2008). The role of facial expression in person perception. In: N. Ambady & J. J. Skowronski (Eds.), First impressions (pp. 234-254). Guilford Press.
Philippot, P. & Hess, U. (2007). Introduction: The Tale I Read on Your Face Depends on Who I Believe You Are: Introducing How Social Factors Might Influence the Decoder’s Interpretation of Facial Expression. In: U. Hess & P. Philippot (Eds.), Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression (pp. 1 -6). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Hess, U. & Philippot, P. (2007). Others faces’ tales: An integration. In: U. Hess & P. Philippot (Eds.), Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression (pp. 182-190). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Hess, U., Adams, R. B. Jr., Kleck, R. E. (2007). When two do the same it might not mean the same: The perception of emotional expressions shown by men and women. In: U. Hess & P. Philippot (Eds.), Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression (pp. 33-50). New York: Cambridge University Press. PDF
Hess, U. Émotion ressentie et simulée (2004). In G. Kirouac (Ed.), Cognition et emotions (pp. 115-128). Coimbra: Presses de l’Université de Coimbra.
Hess, U. (2003). Emotion at Work. Rapport Bourgogne, CIRANO, Montreal, Qc. PDF
Hess, U., Beaupré, M.G. Cheung, N. (2002). Who to whom and why – cultural differences and similarities in the function of smiles. In: Millicent Abel (Ed.), An empirical reflection on the smile (pp. 187-216). NY: The Edwin Mellen Press
Hess, U. (2001). The communication of emotion. In A. Kaszniak (Ed.), Emotions, Qualia, and Consciousness (pp. 397-409). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. PDF
Hess, U. (2001). The experience of emotion: Situational influences on the elicitation and experience of emotions. In A. Kaszniak (Ed.), Emotions, Qualia, and Consciousness (pp. 386-396). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.
Hess, U. & Kirouac, G., Emotion expression in Groups (2000). In M. Lewis & J. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of emotion, 2nd Edition (pp. 368-381). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Hess, U., Senécal, S. & Vallerand, R. J. (2000). Les variables indépendantes et dépendantes. In Vallerand, R. J. & Hess, U. (Eds.), Méthodes de recherche en psychologie (pp. 33-54). Boucherville, Qc: Gaëtan Morin.
Hess, U., Senécal, S. & Vallerand, R. J. (2000). Les approches quantitatives et qualitatives dans la recherche en science social. In Vallerand, R. J. & Hess, U. (Eds.), Méthodes de recherche en psychologie (pp. 507-529). Boucherville, Qc: Gaëtan Morin.
Vallerand, R. J. Perreault, S., Hess, U. & Ratelle, C. (2000). La démarche scientifique en psychologie. In Vallerand, R. J. & Hess, U. (Éds.), Méthodes de recherche en psychologie (pp. 3-31). Boucherville, Qc: Gaëtan Morin.
Adams, R. B., Jr., Kleck, R.E., Hess, U., & Wallbott, H. (2000). The influence of perceived gender on the perception of emotional facial expressions, Proceedings of the XIth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Quebec City, Canada, August 16th-20th.
Hess, U., Blairy, S., & Philippot, P. (1999). Facial Mimicry In: P. Philippot, R. Feldman, & E. Coats (Eds.), The social context of nonverbal behavior (pp. 213-241). Cambridge University Press.
Kirouac, G. & Hess, U. (1999). Group membership and the decoding of nonverbal behavior. In: P. Philippot, R. Feldman, & E. Coats (Eds.), The social context of nonverbal behavior (pp. 182-210). Cambridge University Press.
Cantin, V. & Hess, U. (1998). Angry People or Angry Situations: The Influence of Power and of Dispositional Variables on the Experience and Expression of Anger. Proceedings of the Xth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (pp. 98-101), Würzburg, Germany, August 4-8.
Herrera, P. & Hess, U. (1998). Judgement of Facial Expressions: Do Individuals from Different Cultures Provoke Different Reactions? Proceedings of the Xth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (pp 226-229). Würzburg, Germany, August 4-8.
Hess, U. (1998). Mimicry : Fact and Fiction. Proceedings of the Xth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (pp 63-65). Würzburg, Germany, August 4-8.
Hess. U. (1997/2005). Objective differences versus observers' ratings. In: Ekman, P. and Rosenberg, E. (Eds.). What the face reveals: Basic and applied studies of spontaneous expression using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) (pp. 287-288). New York: Oxford University Press.
Hess, U. & Kleck, R. E. (1997/2005). Differentiating emotion elicited and deliberate emotional facial expressions. In: Ekman, P. and Rosenberg, E. (Eds.). What the face reveals: Basic and applied studies of spontaneous expression using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) (pp. 271-286). New York: Oxford University Press.
Cantin, V., Hess, U., Coulombe, V., & Houle, J. (1997). L’expression de la colère: Influence de variables situationnelles et dispositionnelles. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Societe Quebecoise pour la Recherche en Psychologie. Sherbrooke, 24-26 October.
Herrera, P & Hess, U. (1997). L’évaluation des expressions faciale: les individus de cultures différentes suscitent -ils des réactions différentes ? Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Societe Quebecoise pour la Recherche en Psychologie. Sherbrooke, 24-26 October.
Hess, U., Blairy, S. & Philippot, P. (1996). Facial mimicry. In N. Frijda (Ed.). Proceedings of the IXth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion. Toronto, Canada, August 12th-17th.
Kappas, A, & Hess, U. (1995). Nonverbal aspects of oral communication. In: U. Quasthoff (Ed.), Aspects of Oral Communication (pp. 169-180). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co.
Hess, U., Kappas, A., Banse, R. (1992). Physiologische Reaktionen auf den emotionalen Gesichtsausdruck Anderer: Eine Untersuchung zu Empathie und physiologischer Synchronisation. Bericht über den 38. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie in Kiel 1990, Band I (pp. 4573-574). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Banse, R., Hess, U., & Kappas, A. (1992) Resonanzkatastrophen in der sozialen Interaction: Zwei Experimente zum “hysterischen” Lachen. Bericht über den 38. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie in Kiel 1990, Band I (pp. 572). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Hess, U. & Banse, R. (1992) Emotion und Interaktion: Imitation, Empathie und Ansteckung. Bericht über den 38. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie in Kiel 1990, Band II. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Kappas, A., Hess, U., & Scherer, K. R. (1991). Voice and Emotion. In R. Feldman & B. Rimé (Eds.), Fundamentals of nonverbal behavior (pp. 200 - 238). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Hess, U. & Wallbott, H. (1990). “Echter” und “unechter” Emotionsausdruck: Untersuchungsansätze, Methoden und Probleme. In: D. Frey (Ed.), Bericht über den 37. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie in Kiel 1990, Band I (pp. 455). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Hess, U. (1990). Objektive Unterschiede zwischen “echtem” und “unechtem” emotionalen Gesichtsausdruck. In: D. Frey (Ed.), Bericht über den 37. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie in Kiel 1990, Band II. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Hess, U., Kappas, A., & Scherer, K. R. (1988). Multichannel communication of emotion: Synthetic signal production. In K. R. Scherer (Ed.) Facets of emotion: Recent research (pp. 161-182). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates