Prof. Dr. Ursula Hess - Coping with Affective Polarization

Prof. Dr. Ursula Hess

Principal Investigator

Tel:
+49 30 2093-9327

Short Vita

I am a professor of social and organizational psychology at Humboldt University in Berlin and a leading researcher in the field of emotion communication. I have published more than two hundred publications and book chapters (H-index Google scholar: 73).

Key publications

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. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8760(00)00161-6
Hess, U., & Fischer, A. (2013). Emotional mimicry as social regulation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17, 142-157. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088868312472607
Elfenbein, H. A., Beaupré, M. G., Levesque, M., & Hess, U. (2007). Toward a dialect theory: Cultural differences in the expression and recognition of posed facial expressions. Emotion, 7, 131-146. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.1.131
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. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.05.018
Hess, U. & Hareli, S. (Eds, 2019). The Social Nature of Emotion Expression: What Emotions Can Tell Us About the World. Springer.

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