User profiles for M. E. Kret

Kret ME

Professor in Comparative Psychology and Affective Neuroscience, Leiden University
Verified email at fsw.leidenuniv.nl
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A review on sex differences in processing emotional signals

ME Kret, B De Gelder - Neuropsychologia, 2012 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel ME Kret a 1 , B. De Gelder a b … A recent study by Kret (2011)
investigated how aggressive males who were imprisoned for conducting an aggressive …

[HTML][HTML] Connecting minds and sharing emotions through mimicry: A neurocognitive model of emotional contagion

E Prochazkova, ME Kret - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
… In their study, which included both humans and chimpanzees, Kret and her colleagues
found that pupil sizes synchronized between partners of the same species during social …

Standing up for the body. Recent progress in uncovering the networks involved in the perception of bodies and bodily expressions

…, HKM Meeren, CBA Sinke, ME Kret… - Neuroscience & …, 2010 - Elsevier
Recent studies of monkeys and humans have identified several brain regions that respond
to bodies. Researchers have so far mainly addressed the same questions about bodies and …

The rise of affectivism

…, D Keltner, B Knutson, D Konstan, ME Kret… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
Research over the past decades has demonstrated the explanatory power of emotions,
feelings, motivations, moods, and other affective processes when trying to understand and …

[HTML][HTML] Preprocessing pupil size data: Guidelines and code

ME Kret, EE Sjak-Shie - Behavior research methods, 2019 - Springer
Pupillometry has been one of the most widely used response systems in psychophysiology.
Changes in pupil size can reflect diverse cognitive and emotional states, ranging from …

Oxytocin conditions intergroup relations through upregulated in-group empathy, cooperation, conformity, and defense

CKW De Dreu, ME Kret - Biological psychiatry, 2016 - Elsevier
Humans live in, rely on, and contribute to groups. Evolution may have biologically prepared
them to quickly identify others as belonging to the in-group (vs. not), to decode emotional …

[HTML][HTML] Gender differences in emotion perception and self-reported emotional intelligence: A test of the emotion sensitivity hypothesis

AH Fischer, ME Kret, J Broekens - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Previous meta-analyses and reviews on gender differences in emotion recognition have
shown a small to moderate female advantage. However, inconsistent evidence from recent …

Similarities and differences in perceiving threat from dynamic faces and bodies. An fMRI study

ME Kret, S Pichon, J Grèzes, B de Gelder - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Neuroscientific research on the perception of emotional signals has mainly focused on how
the brain processes threat signals from photographs of facial expressions. Much less is …

[HTML][HTML] Perception of face and body expressions using electromyography, pupillometry and gaze measures

ME Kret, JJ Stekelenburg, K Roelofs… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Traditional emotion theories stress the importance of the face in the expression of emotions
but bodily expressions are becoming increasingly important as well. In these experiments we …

[HTML][HTML] Emotional signals from faces, bodies and scenes influence observers' face expressions, fixations and pupil-size

ME Kret, K Roelofs, JJ Stekelenburg… - Frontiers in human …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Kret and Jeroen J. Stekelenburg were involved in data collection and filtering, Mariska E.
Kret analyzed the data and prepared figures. Mariska E. Kret, Jeroen J. Stekelenburg, Karin …