Ursula Hess
Department of Psychology
P.O. Box 8888, Station
University of Quebec at Montreal
Montreal, Quebec H3C 3P8
Canada
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Phone: (514) 987-3000, x4834
Fax: (514) 987-7953
Dr. Hess' current research is in the area of emotion psychology, in particular, the communication of affect with an emphasis on two main lines of research. First, using psychophysiological (e.g., electromyography) measures she studies the influence of a sender's expressive behavior on the receiver, in terms of mimicry and emotional contagion. Second, she is interested in the role of social influences (e.g., beliefs about group membership) in the encoding and decoding of emotion expressions. More recent research efforts aim to combine these lines of research into a larger theoretical perspective.
 Books:
- Hess, U. & Philippot, P. (Eds.), 2007. Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression. New York, Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Bourgeois, P. & Hess, U. (2008). The impact of social context on mimicry. Biological Psychology, 77, 343-352.
- Elfenbein, H. A., Beaupré, M. G., Levesque, M., & Hess, U. (2007). Toward a dialect theory: Cultural differences in expressing and recognizing facial expressions. Emotion, 7, 131-146.
- 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., Sabourin, G., Kleck, R. E. (2007). Postauricular and eye-blink startle responses to facial expressions. Psychophysiology, 44, 431-435.
- Hess, U. & Thibault, P. (in press). Darwin and emotion expression. American Psychologist.
- Lanctôt, N. & Hess, U. (2007). The timing of appraisals. Emotion, 7, 207-212.
- 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.
Other Publications:
- Hess, U., Adams, R. B. Jr., Kleck, R. E. (2007). When two do the same it might not mean the same: The perception of emotional expressions shown by men and women. In: U. Hess & P. Philippot (Eds.) Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression, pp. 33-50. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Hess, U. & Kirouac, G., Emotion expression in Groups (2000). In M. Lewis & J. Haviland-Jones (Eds.) Handbook of emotion, 2nd Edition, pp. 368-381. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
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