Piotr Winkielman

University of California, San Diego — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

51h-index17.5kcitations167works0.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Action Observation and Synchronization(44), Face Recognition and Perception(43), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment(32), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior(29), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies(22)

Publications167 total

Facing emotional vocalizations and instrumental sounds: Sighted and blind individuals spontaneously and selectively activate facial muscles in response to emotional stimuli
2026Open Access
How do Faces Influence Behavior? A Proposal for Distinguishing between Mechanisms that Involve Cognitive inferences, Emotional Feelings, and Unconscious Affective Reactions
Affective Science·2026Open Access
Effort can have positive, negative, and non-monotonic impacts on outcome value in economic choice
2025Open Access
Effort can have positive, negative, and non-monotonic impacts on outcome value in economic choice
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Effort can have positive, negative, and nonmonotonic impacts on outcome value in economic choice.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Fluency shapes evaluations: Feelings, interpretations, expectations, and goals
˜The œPsychology of learning and motivation/˜The œpsychology of learning and motivation·2025
Facing emotional vocalizations and instrumental sounds: Sighted and blind individuals spontaneously and selectively activate facial muscles in response to emotional stimuli.
Emotion·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Watching Others Mirror: Explaining the Range of Third-Party Inferences from Imitation
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Facing emotional vocalizations and instrumental sounds: Sighted and blind individuals spontaneously and selectively activate facial muscles in response to emotional stimuli
2024Open Access
Fluency, prediction and motivation: how processing dynamics, expectations and epistemic goals shape aesthetic judgements
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 24 citedOpen Access
Moving thoughts: emotion concepts from the perspective of context dependent embodied simulation
Language Cognition and Neuroscience·2023· 13 citedOpen Access
Subjective consistency increases trust
Scientific Reports·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Publisher Correction: People conform to social norms when gambling with lives or money
Scientific Reports·2023Open Access
Self-generated cognitive fluency: consequences on evaluative judgments
Cognition & Emotion·2023· 4 cited
People conform to social norms when gambling with lives or money
Scientific Reports·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Mimicry of partially occluded emotional faces: do we mimic what we see or what we know?
Cognition & Emotion·2022· 7 cited
Taking gambles at face value: Effects of emotional expressions on risky decisions
Frontiers in Psychology·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Restricting movements of lower face leaves recognition of emotional vocalizations intact but introduces a valence positivity bias
Scientific Reports·2022· 4 citedOpen Access
Gambling with Lives and Money: Evidence for Conformity in Moral and Monetary Decisions under Risk
2022Open Access
Beyond the features: The role of consistency in impressions of trust
Social Psychological Bulletin·2022· 14 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Norbert Schwarz(9), Paula M. Niedenthal(5), Kent Berridge(4), Lindsay M. Oberman(4), Ursula Heß(4), Rolf Reber(3), Daniel N. McIntosh(3), Martin P. Paulus(3), Edward Vul(2), Christine R. Harris(2), Harold Pashler(2), John T. Cacioppo(2), Julia Wilbarger(2), Tedra A. Fazendeiro(2), Jamin Halberstadt(2), Vilayanur S. Ramachandran(2), Tedra F. Clark(2), Marco Tamietto(2), Seana Coulson(2), Andrew J. Arnold(2)