Friederike will work on the research project “Emotional expressions beyond facial muscle actions.” Project description: Humans are well adapted to quickly recognize and adequately respond to another’s emotions. Different theories propose that mimicry of emotional expressions (facial or otherwise) mechanistically underlies, or at least facilitates, these swift adaptive reactions. When people unconsciously mimic their interaction partner’s expressions of emotion, they… Read more »

CBEN announces her 2nd conference! The conference will be on December 9-10, 2015 at Ghent University (Belgium), and is this time organized by Eveline Seghers and Stefaan Blancke. Key note speaker will be Geoffrey Miller, the evolutionary psychologist who became famous with his book The Mating Mind. More information will be posted soon here.   In addition to the CBEN… Read more »

Research Project “Emotional expressions beyond facial muscle actions.” Humans are well adapted to quickly recognize and adequately respond to another’s emotions. Different theories propose that mimicry of emotional expressions (facial or otherwise) mechanistically underlies, or at least facilitates, these swift adaptive reactions. When people unconsciously mimic their interaction partner’s expressions of emotion, they come to feel reflections of those companions’… Read more »

Project “The Role of Pupil Synchronization in Real Life Interactions: Implications for Trust and Deception”. With Prof. C. de Dreu and RM student Eliska Prochazkova. Awarded four years full-time for a PhD student and €10.000 material costs.… Read more »

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