Books:

• Hess, U. & Fischer, A. (2016). Emotional Mimicry in Social Context. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press
• Hess, U. & Philippot, P. (Eds.), 2007. Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression. New York, Cambridge University Press.

Journal Articles:

• Hareli, S., & Hess, U. (2010). What emotional reactions can tell us about the nature of others: An appraisal perspective on person perception. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 128-140
• Hess, U., Adams, Jr, R.B., Kleck, R.E. (2009). The face is not an empty canvas: How facial expressions interact with facial appearance. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B, 364, 497-3504.
• Hess, U., Adams, R. B., Simard, A., Stevenson, M. T., & Kleck, R. E. (2012). Smiling and sad wrinkles: Age-related changes in the face and the perception of emotions and intentions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1377-1380
• Hess, U., Banse, R., & Kappas, A. (1995). The intensity of facial expression is determined by underlying affective state and social situation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 280-288.Guilford Press.
• Hess, U. & Blairy, S. (2001). Facial mimicry and emotional contagion to dynamic emotional facial expressions and their influence on decoding accuracy. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 40, 129-141.
• Hess, U., & Bourgeois, P. (2010). You smile – I smile: Emotion expression in social interaction. Biological Psychology, 84, 514–520
• Hess, U. & Fischer, A. (2014). Emotional Mimicry: Why and When We Mimic Emotions. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8, 45-57
• Hess, U., Sabourin, G., Kleck, R. E. (2007). Postauricular and eye-blink startle responses to facial expressions. Psychophysiology, 44, 431-435.
• Hess, U. & Thibault, P. (2009). Darwin and emotion expression. American Psychologist, 64, 120-128.
• Lanctôt, N. & Hess, U. (2007). The timing of appraisals. Emotion, 7, 207-212.
• Mauersberger, H., Blaison, C., Kafetsios, K., Kessler, C.-L., Hess, U. (2015). Individual Differences in Emotional Mimicry: Underlying Traits and Social Consequences. European Journal of Personality, 29, 512-529.
• Niedenthal, P.M., Mermillod, M., Maringer, M., & Hess, U (2010). The Simulation of Smiles (SIMS) Model: Embodied Simulation and the Meaning of Facial Expression. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 417 -433
• Thibault, P., Bourgeois, P., & Hess, U. (2006). The effect of group-identification on emotion recognition: The case of cats and basketball players. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 676-683.
• Thibault, P., Levesque, M., Gosselin, P., & Hess, U. (2012). The Duchenne marker is NOT a universal signal of smile authenticity: but it can be learned! Special Issue of Social Psychology on Culture as Process, Social Psychology, 43, 215-221

Other Publications:

• Hess, U. (2014). Anger is a positive emotion (pp. 55-75). In W. G. Parrott (Ed.) The Positive Side of Negative Emotions. Guilford Press
• Hess, U., & Hareli, S. (2014). The role of social context in the interpretation of emotion (pp. 119-141). In M. K. Mandal & A. Awasthi (Eds.), Understanding facial expressions in communication: Cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives. Springer.
• Hess, U., Thibault, P., & Levesque, M. (2013). Where do emotional dialects come from? A comparison of the understanding of emotion terms between Gabon and Quebec (pp. 512-519). In J. R. J. Fontaine, K. R. Scherer & C. Soriano (Eds.), Components of emotional meaning: A sourcebook. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press