OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Nonverbal Behavior is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Role of Contextual Information in Classifying Spontaneous Social Laughter	21
The Too-Much-Mimicry Effect: Strong (vs. Subtle) Mimicry Impairs Liking and Trust in Distributive Negotiations	19
Facial Mimicry and Social Context Affect Smile Interpretation	9
Parental Speech and Gesture Input to Girls Versus Boys in Singletons and Twins	8
The Role of Bodily Expression in Memory Representations of Sadness	8
Behavioral Indicators of Deception and Associated Mental States: Scientific Myths and Realities	8
People Attribute a Range of Highly-Varied and Socially-Bound Meanings to Naturalistic Sad Facial Expressions	8
Superior Communication of Positive Emotions Through Nonverbal Vocalisations Compared to Speech Prosody	7
Exploring the Meanings of the “Heartfelt” Gesture: A Nonverbal Signal of Heartfelt Emotion and Empathy	7
Correction to: 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	5
Spatio-Temporal Properties of Amused, Embarrassed, and Pained Smiles	5
The Effect of Facial Self-Resemblance on Emotional Mimicry	5
Motion Increases Recognition of Naturalistic Postures but not Facial Expressions	5
Nonverbal Auditory Cues Allow Relationship Quality to be Inferred During Conversations	4
Attentional Relevance Modulates Nonverbal Attractiveness Perception in Multimodal Display	4
Perceptions of mate poaching predict jealousy towards higher-pitched women’s voices	4
Effects of Nonverbal Immediacy and Similarity on Perceptions of Likability and Friendship Potential: First Impressions of U.S. and Middle Eastern Students on Zoom	4
Becoming the Storyteller: Mapping Narrative Comprehension throughout Childhood Nonverbally	4
Impact of Hearing Loss and Auditory Rehabilitation on Dyads: A Microsocial Perspective	4
Romantic Bias in Judging the Attractiveness of Faces from the Back	4
A Sorry Excuse for an Apology: Examining People’s Mental Representations of an Apologetic Face	4
A Review of Automatic Lie Detection from Facial Features	4
Voice Cues Influence Children’s Assessment of Adults’ Occupational Competence	3
The Effect of Synchrony of Happiness on Facial Expression of Negative Emotion When Lying	3

Time to Smile: How Onset Asynchronies Between Reciprocal Facial Expressions Influence the Experience of Responsiveness of a Virtual Agent	3
Editorial	3
When Attentional and Politeness Demands Clash: The Case of Mutual Gaze Avoidance and Chin Pointing in Quiahije Chatino	3
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	3
Reviewers 2023	3
Correction to: How Responsive are Anesthesiologists to Patient Pain? Residents’ Verbal and Nonverbal Responses to Standardized Patient Pain Cues	3
Relating Facial Trustworthiness to Antisocial Behavior in Adolescent and Adult Men	3
Impaired Emotional Mimicry Responses Towards Objectified Women	3
Can Children Recognize Bodily Expressions of Emotion?	3
Maternal Touch as a Channel of Communication at Age Four Months: Variations by Infant Gender and Maternal Depression	3
Is There a Correlation Between the Use of Representational Gestures and Self-adaptors?	3
Perceiving Assertiveness and Anger from Gesturing Speed in Different Contexts	3
Vocal Emotional Expressions in Mothers with and without a History of Major Depressive Disorder	2
A Tutorial for Deception Detection Analysis or: How I Learned to Stop Aggregating Veracity Judgments and Embraced Signal Detection Theory Mixed Models	2
Nonverbal Synchrony in Technology-Mediated Interviews: A Cross-Cultural Study	2
Facial and Body Posture Emotion Identification in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Young Adults	2
Friends in Sync? Examining the Relationship Between the Degree of Nonverbal Synchrony, Friendship Satisfaction and Support	2
Do People Agree on How Positive Emotions Are Expressed? A Survey of Four Emotions and Five Modalities Across 11 Cultures	2
Accuracy, Bias, and Overgeneralization: Perceived Aggression Guides Threat Detection and Punishment of Female Criminal Offenders	2
The Digital Witness: Exploring Gestural Misinformation in Tele-Forensic Interviews with 5-8-Year-Old Children	2
Emoji Alter the Perception of Emotion in Affectively Neutral Text messages	2
Imagination Matters: Imagined Interpersonal Distance Affects Trustworthiness Judgments of Faces	2
Paraverbal Expression of Verbal Irony: Vocal Cues Matter and Facial Cues Even More	2
Individual Differences in Conversational Self-Touch Frequency Correlate with State Anxiety	2
Correction to: Emoji Alter the Perception of Emotion in Affectively Neutral Text Messages	2
The Gestural Misinformation Effect in Child Interviews in Switzerland	2
Young Adults with Autism May Possess Typical-Level Skills in Identifying Emotions from Person-in-Context Images	2
Cross-cultural Differences in Using Nonverbal Behaviors to Identify Indirect Replies	1
Just Seconds of Laughter Reveals Relationship Status: Laughter with Friends Sounds More Authentic and Less Vulnerable than Laughter with Romantic Partners	1
Student Evaluations Fast and Slow: It's Time to Integrate Teachers' Nonverbal Behavior in Evaluations of Teaching Effectiveness	1
Ad‑Hoc Reviewers from 2022	1
Dostoyevsky’s Conjecture: Evaluating Personality Impressions Based on Laughter	1
Smile Back at Me, But Only Once: Social Norms of Appropriate Nonverbal Intensity and Reciprocity Apply to Emoji Use	1
Atheists and Christians can be Discerned from their Faces	1
An Experimental Investigation of Supportive Tactile Communication During Esteem Support Conversations	1
Mining Bodily Cues to Deception	1
Two Means Together? Effects of Response Bias and Sensitivity on Communicative Action Detection	1
Correction: Ad-Hoc Reviewers from 2022	1
More than Face Value: Context and Age Differences in Negative Emotion Discrimination	1
Effects of Social Context on Deliberate Facial Expressions: Evidence from a Stroop-like Task	1
Duchenne Smiles of White American College Students in Same-Race and Interracial Interactions	1
People Watching: Social Perception and the Ensemble Coding of Bodies	1
Discriminative and Affective Processing of Touch: Associations with Severity of Skin-picking	1
Behavioral Mimicry and Interaction Expectations Influence Affect in Interracial Interactions	1
The Effect of Mouth-Opening on Recognition of Facial Expressions in the NimStim Set: An Evaluation from Chinese College Students	1
The Effect of Face Masks and Sunglasses on Emotion Perception over Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
The Expression of Vocal Emotions in Cognitively Healthy Adult Speakers: Impact of Emotion Category, Gender, and Age	1
When to Laugh, When to Cry: Display Rules of Nonverbal Vocalisations Across Four Cultures	1