Agneta Fischer

Biographic Data

ID3620740
NAMEAgneta Fischer
GIVEN NAMESAgneta
FAMILY NAMEFischer
SIGNATUREFISCHER A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0001-6939-8174
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS73
TOTAL CITATIONS591
AUTHOR COUNT72
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10

  • How Hate Endures in a post-conflict Society

    Open AccessAlba Jasini, Agneta FischerARTICLEReview of Philosophy and Psychology2026

  • Emotions and Societal Changes: The Nature and Social Functions of “Neo-Emotions”

    Open AccessAgneta FischerARTICLEEmotion Review2026

    Neo-emotions are defined by one shared characteristic: they are a response to macro-societal changes. To gain full insight into when neo-emotions occur, a sociological approach needs to be complemented with a psychological perspective to conceptualize the relation between micro- and macro-level processes. I argue that neo-emotions can be considered group-based emotions. Their social function is to regulate potential challenges elicited by societa…

  • Visual processing and emotion perception from ingroup and outgroup facial expressions

    Open AccessYong-Qi Cong, Daniel Sauter et al.ARTICLECognition & Emotion2026References: 34

    99) making perceptual emotion judgments of Dutch (ingroup) and Chinese (outgroup) facial expressions. We hypothesised that ingroup and outgroup faces would be visually processed differently and that these differences would relate to emotion recognition accuracy. As expected, we observed different viewing patterns: participants looked longer at the eyes and nose of ingroup faces and at the mouth of outgroup faces. However, differences in visual pr…

  • Testing the Ingroup Advantage in Emotion Perception from Dynamic Posed and Spontaneous Expressions

    Open AccessYong-Qi Cong, Lidya Yurdum et al.ARTICLEJournal of Nonverbal Behavior2025

    The ingroup advantage refers to the phenomenon of emotions being more accurately recognised when expressors and perceivers share the same cultural background. Though well-documented in studies using posed facial expressions, whether the in-group advantage generalizes to spontaneous expressions remains unclear. This pre-registered study examined cross-cultural emotion recognition using dynamic posed and spontaneous expressions in a balanced design…

  • Emotions are perceived differently from posed and spontaneous facial expressions

    Open AccessYong-Qi Cong, Lidya Yurdum et al.ARTICLEEmotion2025

    A widely used experimental paradigm in psychological research and clinical assessments involves identifying emotions from facial expressions, typically using posed expressions as stimuli. Perceptions of such stimuli are assumed to mirror those of naturally occurring emotional expressions. However, this assumption has been questioned because the perceptual equivalence of posed and spontaneous expressions has not been empirically established. To ad…

  • Populism Versus Nativism: Socio-Economic, Socio-Cultural, and Emotional Predictors

    Open AccessDavid Abadi, Tisa Bertlich et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2025Cited by: 2References: 94

    Previous research on predictors of populism and nativism has predominantly focused on socio-economic (e.g., education, employment, social status), and socio-cultural explanations (e.g., social identity and social status). In recent years, however, the role of negative emotions has become increasingly important in the study of populism and related concepts. In the current study, we examined two distinct negative emotions: anxiety and anger. We col…

  • Anti-establishment sentiments: Realistic and symbolic threat appraisals predict populist attitudes and conspiracy mentality

    Open AccessDavid Abadi, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.ARTICLECognition & Emotion2024

    Previous research has found that populist attitudes and conspiracy mentality - here summarised as anti-establishment attitudes - increase when people feel threatened. Two types of intergroup threat have been distinguished, namely realistic threats (pertaining to socio-economic resources, climate, or health), and symbolic threats (pertaining to cultural values). However, there is no agreement on which types of threat and corresponding appraisals w…

  • The dynamics of interpersonal emotion regulation: How sharers elicit desired (but not necessarily helpful) support

    Lisanne S Pauw, Disa A Sauter et al.ARTICLEEmotion2024

    When in distress, people often seek help in regulating their emotions by sharing them with others. Paradoxically, although people perceive such social sharing as beneficial, it often fails to promote emotional recovery. This may be explained by people seeking-and eliciting-emotional support, which offers only momentary relief. We hypothesized that (1) the type of support sharers seek shapes corresponding support provided by listeners, (2) the int…

  • (Not) showing you feel good, can be bad: The consequences of breaking expressivity norms for positive emotions

    Open AccessKunalan Manokara, Alisa Balabanova et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2024Cited by: 1References: 135

  • The avatar will see you now: Support from a virtual human provides socio-emotional benefits

    Open AccessLisanne S Pauw, Disa A Sauter et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2022

    When people are in emotional distress, they often seek support. Virtual humans may provide unique and complementary benefits to human support provision, given that virtual humans are readily available and help sharers overcome socio-evaluative threats, thereby increasing willingness to disclose. Here, we examined whether talking to a virtual human elicits socio-emotional benefits, and whether this is moderated by the type of support provided. To …

  • Emotional mimicry as social regulator: Theoretical considerations

    Open AccessUrsula He, Agneta FischerARTICLECognition & Emotion2022

    The goal of this article is to discuss theoretical arguments concerning the idea that emotional mimicry is an intrinsic part of our social being and thus can be considered a social act. For this, we will first present the theoretical assumptions underlying the Emotional Mimicry as Social Regulator view. We then provide a brief overview of recent developments in emotional mimicry research and specifically discuss new developments regarding the rol…

  • Display rules differ between positive emotions: Not all that feels good looks good

    Kunalan Manokara, Agneta Fischer et al.ARTICLEEmotion2022

    People do not always show how they feel; norms often dictate when to display emotions and to whom. Norms about emotional expressions-known as display rules-are weaker for happiness than for negative emotions, suggesting that expressing positive emotions is generally seen as acceptable. But does it follow that all positive emotions can always be shown to everyone? To answer this question, we mapped out context-specific display rules for 8 positive…

  • You’re just envious”: Inferring benign and malicious envy from facial expressions and contextual information

    Jacob Lange, Agneta Fischer et al.ARTICLEEmotion2022

    Envy shapes social hierarchies. To protect their rank, envied persons react to the threat posed by enviers. Doing so requires that envied persons initially perceive who envies them. However, a common perspective is that envy lacks a unique expression and that enviers disguise their experience, preventing the social perception of envy. In contrast to this perspective, recent evidence indicates that observers perceive benign and malicious forms of …

  • Existential threat and responses to emotional displays of ingroup and outgroup members

    Open AccessJanet Wessler, Job van der Schalk et al.ARTICLEGroup Processes & Intergroup…2022References: 12

    The present research investigates how emotional displays shape reactions to ingroup and outgroup members when people are reminded of death. We hypothesized that under mortality salience, emotions that signal social distance promote worldview defense (i.e., increased ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation), whereas emotions that signal affiliation promote affiliation need (i.e., reduced ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation). In three stu…

  • Professional development in multicultural education: What can we learn from the Australian context

    Open AccessCeren Su Abacioglu, Agneta Fischer et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2022Cited by: 7References: 3

    Including data from 3006 in-service primary and secondary public-school teachers in New South Wales, we investigated the effects of professional development in multicultural education on teachers' beliefs about the effectiveness of multicultural strategies in fostering a culturally inclusive environment, the importance of these strategies in providing equitable opportunities for students, and the teachers’ support for monocultural ideologies and …

  • Bridging the empathy gap: Or not? Reactions to ingroup and outgroup facial expressions

    Open AccessUrsula He, Magdalena Rychlowska et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Cognitive…2022Cited by: 2References: 58

    Prior research suggests that group membership impacts behavioral and self-reported responses to others' facial expressions of emotion. In this paper, we examine how the mere labelling of a face as an ingroup or outgroup member affects facial mimicry (Study 1) and judgments of genuineness (Study 2). In addition, we test whether the effects of group membership on facial mimicry and perceived genuineness are moderated by the presence of tears (Study…

  • Personal Nonverbal Repertoires in facial displays and their relation to individual differences in social and emotional styles

    Open AccessHerman Ilgen, Jacob Israelashvili et al.ARTICLECognition & Emotion2021

    Research on individual differences in the occurrence of relatively frequent facial displays is scarce. We examined whether (1) individuals' spontaneous facial expressions show a relatively frequent pattern of AUs (referred to as Personal Nonverbal Repertoires or PNRs), and (2) whether these patterns are associated with self-reported social and emotional styles. We videotaped 110 individuals during 10 minutes in 2 different contexts and manually F…

  • Do People Agree on How Positive Emotions Are Expressed? A Survey of Four Emotions and Five Modalities Across 11 Cultures

    Open AccessKunalan Manokara, Mirna Đurić et al.ARTICLEJournal of Nonverbal Behavior2021

    While much is known about how negative emotions are expressed in different modalities, our understanding of the nonverbal expressions of positive emotions remains limited. In the present research, we draw upon disparate lines of theoretical and empirical work on positive emotions, and systematically examine which channels are thought to be used for expressing four positive emotions: feeling moved, gratitude, interest, and triumph. Employing the i…

  • The rise of affectivism

    Open AccessDaniel Dukes, Kathryn Abrams et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Cited by: 8References: 9

  • Toward an Integrative Psychometric Model of Emotions

    Open AccessJacob Lange, Jonas Dalege et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2020

    Emotions are part and parcel of the human condition, but their nature is debated. Three broad classes of theories about the nature of emotions can be distinguished: affect-program theories, constructionist theories, and appraisal theories. Integrating these broad classes of theories into a unifying theory is challenging. An integrative psychometric model of emotions can inform such a theory because psychometric models are intertwined with theoret…

  • Good vibrations: A review of vocal expressions of positive emotions

    Open AccessRoza Gizem Kamiloglu, Agneta H Fischer et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2020

    Researchers examining nonverbal communication of emotions are becoming increasingly interested in differentiations between different positive emotional states like interest, relief, and pride. But despite the importance of the voice in communicating emotion in general and positive emotion in particular, there is to date no systematic review of what characterizes vocal expressions of different positive emotions. Furthermore, integration and synthe…

  • Two facets of affective empathy: Concern and distress have opposite relationships to emotion recognition

    Open AccessJacob Israelashvili, Daniel Sauter et al.ARTICLECognition & Emotion2020

    Theories on empathy have argued that feeling empathy for others is related to accurate recognition of their emotions. Previous research that tested this assumption, however, has reported inconsistent findings. We suggest that this inconsistency may be due to a lack of consideration of the fact that empathy has two facets: empathic concern, namely the compassion for unfortunate others, and personal distress, the experience of discomfort in respons…

  • Teachers' multicultural attitudes and perspective taking abilities as factors in culturally responsive teaching

    Open AccessCeren Su Abacioglu, Monique Volman et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Educational…2020Cited by: 9References: 43

    BackgroundCulturally responsive teaching (CRT) has been associated with increased student engagement and achievement. Its practice in classrooms, however, has been shown to be less than optimal. Nonetheless, certain teacher qualities have been suggested to facilitate its practice.AimsThe current study sought quantitative evidence in support of two of these teacher qualities, namely teachers' multicultural attitudes, and their perspective taking a…

  • Practice what you preach: The moderating role of teacher attitudes on the relationship between prejudice reduction and student engagement

    Open AccessCeren Su Abacioglu, Marjolein Zee et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2019Cited by: 8References: 15

  • Perceived to feel less: Intensity bias in interethnic emotion perception

    Open AccessPum Kommattam, Karen Jonas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2019References: 40