Publications

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  1. Miller, E., Steward, B., Witkower, Z., Sutherland, C., Krumhuber, E., Dawel, A. (in press). AI Hyperrealism: Why AI faces are perceived as more real than human ones. Psychological Science, 34(12), 1390-1403.

  2. Witkower, Z., Hill, A. K., Koster, J., Pun, A., & Baron, A., & Tracy, J. L. (in press). Nonverbal displays of dominance and prestige: Evidence for cross-cultural and early emerging recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(2), 282–292..

  3. Witkower, Z., Rule, N. O., & Tracy, J. L. (in press). Emotions Do Reliably Co-Occur With Predicted Facial Signals: Comment on Durán and Fernandez-Dols (2021). Emotion, 23(3), 903–907.

  4. Mercadante, E., Witkower, Z., Hohm, I., Tracy, J. L. (in press) Beyond the Fearful Ape Hypothesis: Humans are Also Supplicating and Appeasing Apes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e72.

  5. Schmidt, I., Witkower, Z., Götz, F., & Stieger, S. (2022). Registered Report: Social face

    evaluation: Ethnicity-specific differences in the judgement of trustworthiness of faces and facial

    parts. Scientific Reports. 12(18311), 1-17.

  6. Witkower, Z., Tracy, J. L., Hill, A. K., & Koster, J. (2022). Is a downwards head tilt a cross-cultural signal of dominance? Evidence for a universal visual illusion. Scientific Reports, 12, 1-7.

  7. Witkower, Z., Hill, A., & Koster, J., Tracy, J. L. (in press). Beyond face value: Evidence for the universality of bodily expressions of emotion. Affective Science, 2(3), 221-229.

  8. Witkower, Z., Mercadante, E., & Tracy, J. L. (in press). The chicken and egg of pride and social rank. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

  9. Tracy, J. L., Mercadante, E., & Witkower, Z. (in press). The evolved nature of pride. In L. Al-Shawaf & T. Shakelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.

  10. Witkower, Z., Tracy, J. L., Pun, A, Baron, A.S. (2021) Can children recognize bodily expressions of emotion? Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 1-14.

  11. Mercadante, E., Witkower, Z., & Tracy, J. L. (2021). The psychological structure, social consequences, function, and expression of pride experiences. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 39, 130-135.

  12. Martin, J. D., Wood, A., Cox, W. T. L., Sievert, S., Nowak, R., Gilboa-Schectman, E. G., Zhao, F., Witkower, Z., Langbehn, A. T., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2021). Evidence for distinct facial signals of reward, affiliation, and dominance from both perception and production tasks. Affective Science, 2(1), 14-30.

  13. Witkower, Z., & Tracy, J. L. (2020). How and why head position changes the perception of facial expressions of emotion. Emotion, 22(5), 931–944.

  14. Tracy, J. L., Mercadante, E., Witkower, Z., & Cheng, J. T. (2020). The evolution of pride and social hierarchy. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 62, 51-114.

  15. Witkower, Z., & Tracy, J. L. (2020). We don’t make WEIRD faces: A brief history of emotion expression research in small-scale societies. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(5), 454-455 [commentary].

  16. Witkower, Z., Tracy, J. L., Cheng, J. T., & Henrich, J. (2020). Two signals of social rank: Prestige and dominance are associated with distinct nonverbal displays. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(1), 89-120.

  17. Witkower, Z., Mercadante, E., & Tracy, J. L. (2020). How affect shapes status: Distinct emotional experiences and expressions facilitate social hierarchy navigation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 18-22.

  18. Witkower, Z. & Tracy, J. L. (2019). A facial action imposter: How head tilt influences perceptions of dominance from a neutral face. Psychological Science, 30(6), 893-906

  19. Witkower, Z. & Tracy, J. L. (2018). Bodily communication of emotion: Evidence for extra-facial behavioral expressions and available coding systems. Emotion Review, 11(2), 184–193. 

  20. Barlett, C. P., Witkower, Z., Mancini, C., Saleem, M. (2016). Breaking the link between provocation and aggression: The role of mitigating information. Aggressive Behavior, 42(6), 555-562.

  21. Barlett, C. P., Chamberlin, K., Witkower, Z. (2016). Predicting cyberbullying frequency in emerging adults: A longitudinal analysis. Aggressive Behavior, 43(2), 147-154.