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In a new study, AICE researcher Milica Nikolić together with colleagues show that social anxiety linked to both low and advanced emotional intelligence in children.

What happens in the brain when we feel awe? New research suggests that a key feature of the experience of awe is a reduced engagement in self‐referential processing.

In a new study, AICE researcher Agneta Fischer together with Pum Kommattam and Kai Jonas test the hypothesis that individuals perceive facial expressions of emotions in ethnic outgroup members as less intense than ...

Are Dutch and Japanese people able to understand each other’s nonverbal expressions of emotions? AICE researcher Disa Sauter and Michiko Yoshie conducted a cross-cultural experiment.

AICE member Amandine Lassalle will start working at at the CoPAN (Comparative Psychology and Affective Neuroscience) laboratory of Leiden University.

Lisanne Pauw together with Disa Sauter, Gerben van Kleef and Agneta Fischer recently published an article in Cognition and Emotion.

Why is it that Easterners are typically poorer at categorizing some emotional facial expressions than Westerners? AICE researchers publish new paper on cultural differences in emotion perception.

Disa Sauter has, together with Marcello Mortillaro, received a Scientific Exchange grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

As part of the NWO pilot program Refugees in Science, Shahira Sharaf has received a one-year appointment to continue her scientific career in the Netherlands.

Kobi Israelashvili together with Suzanne Oosterwijk, Disa Sauer and Agneta Fischer recently published an article in Cognition and Emotion

Agneta Fischer and Jan Willen Duyvendak (sociology) received a grant for their cooperation in a H2020 project, called DEMOS, in which the socio-economic, social psychological, emotional and cognitive mechanisms ...

When in emotional distress, people often turn to others for support. But can listeners tell what support the sharer needs? Across three experiments, PhD student Lisanne Pauw, together with her supervisors Disa ...

Roza Kamiloglu together with Monique Smeets, Jasper de Groot, and Gün Semin have published an article on communicative function of emotional human chemosignals. They examined whether human body odors produced under ...

When people are emotionally similar to those around them, they feel like they belong. Yet, many immigrant minorities face a (temporary) mismatch between their emotional patterns and those that are typical for, and ...

Adults are known to perceive emotional expressions categorically, and this has been argued to be due to them having verbal labels for the emotion categories (e.g., happiness, fear, anger). In a series of three ...

Do other animals laugh? Is it true that laughter makes you live longer? Why is laughter contagious? These are some of the questions Disa Sauter discussed on the Swedish TV program Malou efter tio. Follow the link ...

How do dynamic changes in emotional expressions affect person perception? Across three experiments, PhD student Xia Fang, together with her supervisors Gerben van Kleef and Disa Sauter, examined perceivers’ ...

Roza Kamiloglu, PhD student, won the Dancker Daamen Poster Award at the ASPO (Association of Dutch Social Psychology) conference at the VU in December 2017. She presented the poster 'Smelling an “Emotional ...

AICE PhD student Lisanne Pauw has, together with her supervisors Agneta Fischer, Gerben van Kleef, and Disa Sauter, published an article in Cognition and Emotion. When in emotional distress, people often turn to ...

Although perceivers often agree about the primary emotion that is conveyed by a particular expression, observers may also see several additional emotions in a given expression. In this study, Fang and colleagues ...