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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the Special Issue on Innovations in Vocal Research: Insights from Emotion, Personality Perception, Eyewitness Accuracy and Persuasion	24
The Too-Much-Mimicry Effect: Strong (vs. Subtle) Mimicry Impairs Liking and Trust in Distributive Negotiations	20
The Role of Bodily Expression in Memory Representations of Sadness	13
Behavioral Indicators of Deception and Associated Mental States: Scientific Myths and Realities	13
Facial Mimicry and Social Context Affect Smile Interpretation	13
Superior Communication of Positive Emotions Through Nonverbal Vocalisations Compared to Speech Prosody	12
Exploring the Meanings of the “Heartfelt” Gesture: A Nonverbal Signal of Heartfelt Emotion and Empathy	11
People Attribute a Range of Highly-Varied and Socially-Bound Meanings to Naturalistic Sad Facial Expressions	9
Becoming the Storyteller: Mapping Narrative Comprehension throughout Childhood Nonverbally	7
The Role of Contextual Information in Classifying Spontaneous Social Laughter	7
Correction to: Emotion Expression in Context: Full Body Postures of Christian Prayer Orientations Compared to Specific Emotions	7
Effects of Nonverbal Immediacy and Similarity on Perceptions of Likability and Friendship Potential: First Impressions of U.S. and Middle Eastern Students on Zoom	6
Motion Increases Recognition of Naturalistic Postures but not Facial Expressions	5
Attentional Relevance Modulates Nonverbal Attractiveness Perception in Multimodal Display	5
Romantic Bias in Judging the Attractiveness of Faces from the Back	5
The Association of Embracing with Daily Mood and General Life Satisfaction: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study	5
Correction to: How Responsive are Anesthesiologists to Patient Pain? Residents’ Verbal and Nonverbal Responses to Standardized Patient Pain Cues	5
Perceptions of mate poaching predict jealousy towards higher-pitched women’s voices	5
Impact of Hearing Loss and Auditory Rehabilitation on Dyads: A Microsocial Perspective	5
A Review of Automatic Lie Detection from Facial Features	5
Spatio-Temporal Properties of Amused, Embarrassed, and Pained Smiles	5
Time to Smile: How Onset Asynchronies Between Reciprocal Facial Expressions Influence the Experience of Responsiveness of a Virtual Agent	4
A Sorry Excuse for an Apology: Examining People’s Mental Representations of an Apologetic Face	4
Emoji Alter the Perception of Emotion in Affectively Neutral Text messages	4
Nonverbal Auditory Cues Allow Relationship Quality to be Inferred During Conversations	4

Nonverbal Synchrony in Technology-Mediated Interviews: A Cross-Cultural Study	4
The Effect of Facial Self-Resemblance on Emotional Mimicry	4
Editorial	4
Individual Differences in Conversational Self-Touch Frequency Correlate with State Anxiety	4
Relating Facial Trustworthiness to Antisocial Behavior in Adolescent and Adult Men	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
Can Children Recognize Bodily Expressions of Emotion?	3
Do People Agree on How Positive Emotions Are Expressed? A Survey of Four Emotions and Five Modalities Across 11 Cultures	3
Correction to: Emoji Alter the Perception of Emotion in Affectively Neutral Text Messages	3
Accuracy, Bias, and Overgeneralization: Perceived Aggression Guides Threat Detection and Punishment of Female Criminal Offenders	3
Maternal Touch as a Channel of Communication at Age Four Months: Variations by Infant Gender and Maternal Depression	3
A Tutorial for Deception Detection Analysis or: How I Learned to Stop Aggregating Veracity Judgments and Embraced Signal Detection Theory Mixed Models	3
The Effect of Synchrony of Happiness on Facial Expression of Negative Emotion When Lying	3
The Digital Witness: Exploring Gestural Misinformation in Tele-Forensic Interviews with 5-8-Year-Old Children	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	3
Just Seconds of Laughter Reveals Relationship Status: Laughter with Friends Sounds More Authentic and Less Vulnerable than Laughter with Romantic Partners	2
Reviewers 2023	2
Paraverbal Expression of Verbal Irony: Vocal Cues Matter and Facial Cues Even More	2
The Effect of Mouth-Opening on Recognition of Facial Expressions in the NimStim Set: An Evaluation from Chinese College Students	2
The Effect of Face Masks and Sunglasses on Emotion Perception over Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
More than Face Value: Context and Age Differences in Negative Emotion Discrimination	2
Young Adults with Autism May Possess Typical-Level Skills in Identifying Emotions from Person-in-Context Images	2
Dressed Emotions: How Attire and Emotion Expressions Influence First Impressions	2
Student Evaluations Fast and Slow: It's Time to Integrate Teachers' Nonverbal Behavior in Evaluations of Teaching Effectiveness	2
Friends in Sync? Examining the Relationship Between the Degree of Nonverbal Synchrony, Friendship Satisfaction and Support	2
Mining Bodily Cues to Deception	2
Impaired Emotional Mimicry Responses Towards Objectified Women	2
Facial and Body Posture Emotion Identification in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Young Adults	2
Is There a Correlation Between the Use of Representational Gestures and Self-adaptors?	2
Smile Back at Me, But Only Once: Social Norms of Appropriate Nonverbal Intensity and Reciprocity Apply to Emoji Use	2
An Experimental Investigation of Supportive Tactile Communication During Esteem Support Conversations	2