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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Measurement of Eye Contact in Human Interactions: A Scoping Review	30
Fathers’ and Mothers’ Infant Directed Speech Influences Preterm Infant Behavioral State in the NICU	17
Paralinguistic Features Communicated through Voice can Affect Appraisals of Confidence and Evaluative Judgments	17
Live Maternal Speech and Singing Increase Self-Touch and Eye-Opening in Preterm Newborns: A Preliminary Study	13
The Influence of Emotional Closeness on Interindividual Touching	13
Movement Synchrony in the Mirror Game	13
Exploring Emotion Recognition and the Understanding of Others’ Unspoken Thoughts and Feelings when Narrating Self-Experienced Emotional Events	9
The Role of Ethnic Prejudice in the Modulation of Cradling Lateralization	9
Can Children Recognize Bodily Expressions of Emotion?	8
Emotional Voice Intonation: A Communication Code at the Origins of Speech Processing and Word-Meaning Associations?	8
The Expression of Success: Are Thin-Slices of Pre-performance Nonverbal Behavior Prior to Throwing Darts Predictive of Performance in Professional Darts?	7
A Longitudinal Characterization of Typical Laughter Development in Mother–Child Interaction from 12 to 36 Months: Formal Features and Reciprocal Responsiveness	6
How Weeping Influences the Perception of Facial Expressions: The Signal Value of Tears	6
Emotion Expression in Context: Full Body Postures of Christian Prayer Orientations Compared to Specific Emotions	6
The Association of Embracing with Daily Mood and General Life Satisfaction: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study	6
Beauty Goes Down to the Core: Attractiveness Biases Moral Character Attributions	6
In the Eye of the Beholder: A Comprehensive Analysis of Stimulus Type, Perceiver, and Target in Physical Attractiveness Perceptions	5
Motion Increases Recognition of Naturalistic Postures but not Facial Expressions	5
Paraverbal Expression of Verbal Irony: Vocal Cues Matter and Facial Cues Even More	5
Justice and Nonverbal Communication in a Post-pandemic World: An Evidence-Based Commentary and Cautionary Statement for Lawyers and Judges	5
Emoji Alter the Perception of Emotion in Affectively Neutral Text messages	5
Nonverbal Auditory Cues Allow Relationship Quality to be Inferred During Conversations	5
More than Face Value: Context and Age Differences in Negative Emotion Discrimination	4
Acting Surprised: Comparing Perceptions of Different Dynamic Deliberate Expressions	4
Identifying Signatures of Perceived Interpersonal Synchrony	4

Predictive Validity of Thin Slices of Verbal and Nonverbal Behaviors: Comparison of Slice Lengths and Rating Methodologies	4
Discriminative and Affective Processing of Touch: Associations with Severity of Skin-picking	4
Does Self-Reported Childhood Trauma Relate to Vocal Acoustic Measures? Preliminary Findings at Trauma Recall	4
Superior Communication of Positive Emotions Through Nonverbal Vocalisations Compared to Speech Prosody	4
Do People Agree on How Positive Emotions Are Expressed? A Survey of Four Emotions and Five Modalities Across 11 Cultures	3
The Distress Smile and its Cognitive Antecedents	3
Efficient Collection and Representation of Preverbal Data in Typical and Atypical Development	3
Just Seconds of Laughter Reveals Relationship Status: Laughter with Friends Sounds More Authentic and Less Vulnerable than Laughter with Romantic Partners	3
Parental Speech and Gesture Input to Girls Versus Boys in Singletons and Twins	3
Eye Gaze During Controversial Conversations Depends on Agreement and Conversational Role	3
Student Evaluations Fast and Slow: It's Time to Integrate Teachers' Nonverbal Behavior in Evaluations of Teaching Effectiveness	3
Behavioral Mimicry and Interaction Expectations Influence Affect in Interracial Interactions	3
May I Speak Freely? The Difficulty in Vocal Identity Processing Across Free and Scripted Speech	3
Can Gestures Give us Access to Thought? A Systematic Literature Review on the Role of Co-thought and Co-speech Gestures in Children with Intellectual Disabilities	3
Effects of Social Context on Deliberate Facial Expressions: Evidence from a Stroop-like Task	3
Introduction to the Special Issue on Emotional Expression Beyond the Face: On the Importance of Multiple Channels of Communication and Context	2
How to Detect Altruists: Experiments Using a Zero-Acquaintance Video Presentation Paradigm	2
Duchenne Smiles of White American College Students in Same-Race and Interracial Interactions	2
Nonverbal Synchrony in Technology-Mediated Interviews: A Cross-Cultural Study	2
The Effect of Facial Self-Resemblance on Emotional Mimicry	2
The Role of Bodily Expression in Memory Representations of Sadness	2
A Quantitative Evaluation of Thin Slice Sampling for Parent–Infant Interactions	2
Smile Back at Me, But Only Once: Social Norms of Appropriate Nonverbal Intensity and Reciprocity Apply to Emoji Use	2
Type of Task Instruction Enhances the Role of Face and Context in Emotion Perception	2
Voice Cues Influence Children’s Assessment of Adults’ Occupational Competence	2
Spatio-Temporal Properties of Amused, Embarrassed, and Pained Smiles	2
Exploring the Meanings of the “Heartfelt” Gesture: A Nonverbal Signal of Heartfelt Emotion and Empathy	2
The Role of Vocal Affect in Persuasion: The CIVA Model	2
Are You Laughing at Them or with Them? Laughter as a Signal of In-Group Affiliation	2
Two Means Together? Effects of Response Bias and Sensitivity on Communicative Action Detection	2
Dostoyevsky’s Conjecture: Evaluating Personality Impressions Based on Laughter	2
An Eye Tracking Investigation of Pain Decoding Based on Older and Younger Adults’ Facial Expressions	2
The Role of Contextual Information in Classifying Spontaneous Social Laughter	2