OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Nonverbal Behavior is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Acoustic Features of Emotional Expression in Preverbal Infant Vocalizations	33
Laughter Contagion Varies by Laughter Type and Perceived Authenticity	25
A Social Relations Model of Interpersonal Distance Preference	17
Identifying Basic Emotions and Action Units from Facial Photographs with ChatGPT	16
Elevated Facial Behavior Variability During Emotions Contributes to Better Functional Communication in Dyslexia	12
Editorial	10
Exploring the Impact of Facial-Body Emotion Incongruence: Insight from a Systematic Review	10
Time to Smile: How Onset Asynchronies Between Reciprocal Facial Expressions Influence the Experience of Responsiveness of a Virtual Agent	10
A Sorry Excuse for an Apology: Examining People’s Mental Representations of an Apologetic Face	10
Did You Commit a Crime There? Investigating the Visual Exploration Patterns of Guilty, Innocent, Honest, and Dishonest Subjects When Viewing a Complex Mock Crime Scene	9
Correction to: Emoji Alter the Perception of Emotion in Affectively Neutral Text Messages	9
Maternal Touch as a Channel of Communication at Age Four Months: Variations by Infant Gender and Maternal Depression	9
Using AI-Generated Avatar Interactions To Study Socio-Affective Functions of Feedback Signals in Language: an Exploratory Experimental Study on Head Nods	9
The Digital Witness: Exploring Gestural Misinformation in Tele-Forensic Interviews with 5-8-Year-Old Children	8
Facial and Body Posture Emotion Identification in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Young Adults	8
An Experimental Investigation of Supportive Tactile Communication During Esteem Support Conversations	7
Discriminative and Affective Processing of Touch: Associations with Severity of Skin-picking	7
Atheists and Christians can be Discerned from their Faces	7
Ad‑Hoc Reviewers from 2022	7
Face Masks and Interpersonal Perceptions: Null Effects on Perceived Trust and Credibility	7
Perceptions of Creepiness and the “Kubrick Stare”	6
Identifying Signatures of Perceived Interpersonal Synchrony	6
Raise Your Hands: The Influence of Post-Fight Nonverbal Pride on Fight Decisions	6
Zero to 60 Laughs per Hour: Observed Laughter, Physical Health, Personality, and Well-Being in People Aged 67 to 95, an Exploratory Study	6
How are Gaze Aversions and Mutual Gaze Related to the Topical Development of Dyadic Explanatory Interactions?	6

Bias Contagion Across Racial Group Boundaries	5
Reviewers 2024	5
A Dynamic Disadvantage? Social Perceptions of Dynamic Morphed Emotions Differ from Videos and Photos	5
The Influence of Voice Masculinity and Femininity on Adults’ Expectations of Children’s Academic and Occupational Competence	5
Facially Expressive People are More Popular in Newly Formed Groups: A Social Network Analysis	5
Blended Emotions can be Accurately Recognized from Dynamic Facial and Vocal Expressions	5
Three-Dimensional Movement Analysis of Hugging in Romantic Couples and Platonic Friends Using Markerless Motion Capture	4
Introduction to the Special Issue on Innovations in Vocal Research: Insights from Emotion, Personality Perception, Eyewitness Accuracy and Persuasion	4
Laughter Indicates Perceived Similarity Among Friends and Strangers	4
Attentional Relevance Modulates Nonverbal Attractiveness Perception in Multimodal Display	4
The Too-Much-Mimicry Effect: Strong (vs. Subtle) Mimicry Impairs Liking and Trust in Distributive Negotiations	4
The Effect of Synchrony of Happiness on Facial Expression of Negative Emotion When Lying	4
The Role of Contextual Information in Classifying Spontaneous Social Laughter	4
To Nod or Not to Nod: How Does Interviewer Nonverbal Behavior Affect Rapport Perceptions and Recall in Truth Tellers and Lie Tellers?	4
Intuitive Thinking is Associated with Stronger Belief in Physiognomy and Confidence in the Accuracy of Facial Impressions	3
Mining Bodily Cues to Deception	3
When to Laugh, When to Cry: Display Rules of Nonverbal Vocalisations Across Four Cultures	3
Nonverbal Expressivity, Physical Attractiveness, and Liking: First Impression to Established Relationship	3
Young Adults with Autism May Possess Typical-Level Skills in Identifying Emotions from Person-in-Context Images	3
Imagination Matters: Imagined Interpersonal Distance Affects Trustworthiness Judgments of Faces	3
Cross-cultural Differences in Using Nonverbal Behaviors to Identify Indirect Replies	3
Follow the Leader: Parent- and Child-led Synchrony in Competitive and Cooperative play	3
The Effect of Face Masks and Sunglasses on Emotion Perception over Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Impaired Emotional Mimicry Responses Towards Objectified Women	3
Do Children Laugh Like Their Parents? Conversational Laughter Mimicry Occurrence and Acoustic Alignment in Middle-Childhood	3
Unmasking Deception: Examining Receivers’ Emotional Responses with Automated Facial Expression Analysis in Veracity and Valence	2
The Association of Embracing with Daily Mood and General Life Satisfaction: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study	2
The Effect of Mouth-Opening on Recognition of Facial Expressions in the NimStim Set: An Evaluation from Chinese College Students	2
Perceptions of mate poaching predict jealousy towards higher-pitched women’s voices	2
Perception of Facial Trustworthiness: The Impact of Top and Bottom Facial Cues on Trust Judgments and Behaviors	2
Reviewers 2023	2
The Gestural Misinformation Effect in Child Interviews in Switzerland	2
Development of the Test of Nonverbal Cue Knowledge-II (TONCK-II)	2
Impact of Hearing Loss and Auditory Rehabilitation on Dyads: A Microsocial Perspective	2
When Attentional and Politeness Demands Clash: The Case of Mutual Gaze Avoidance and Chin Pointing in Quiahije Chatino	2
Dostoyevsky’s Conjecture: Evaluating Personality Impressions Based on Laughter	2