Sebastian Korb

Biographic Data

ID5449330
NAMESebastian Korb
GIVEN NAMESSebastian
FAMILY NAMEKorb
SIGNATUREKORB S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Essex
ORCID0000-0002-3517-3783
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Increasing perceived happiness in neutral faces by posing a smile

    Open AccessJoshua Baker, Stephanie Van der Donck et al.ARTICLEEmotion2025

    Previous research using electroencephalography has so far failed to provide strong and convincing evidence for the effects of facial feedback on the visual processing of emotional facial expressions. To fill this gap, we harnessed the power of electroencephalography frequency tagging, which offers excellent objective indication of implicit stimulus processing with high signal-to-noise ratio. Healthy adult participants ( N = 47) from diverse backg…

  • Smiling and frowning induced by facial neuromuscular electrical stimulation (fNMES) modulate felt emotion and physiology

    Open AccessThemis Nikolas Efthimiou, Joshua Baker et al.ARTICLEEmotion2024

    According to the facial feedback hypothesis, feedback from facial muscles can initiate and modulate a person's emotional state. This assumption is debated, however, and existing research has arguably suffered from a lack of control over which facial muscles are activated, when, to what degree, and for how long. To overcome these limitations, we carried out a preregistered experiment including 58 participants. Facial neuromuscular electrical stimu…

  • Inhibiting orofacial mimicry affects authenticity perception in vocal emotions

    Ricardo F Vilaverde, Oleksandr V Horchak et al.ARTICLEEmotion2024

    Although emotional mimicry is ubiquitous in social interactions, its mechanisms and roles remain disputed. A prevalent view is that imitating others' expressions facilitates emotional understanding, but the evidence is mixed and almost entirely based on facial emotions. In a preregistered study, we asked whether inhibiting orofacial mimicry affects authenticity perception in vocal emotions. Participants listened to authentic and posed laughs and …

  • Defining social reward

    Ana Stijovic, Magdalena Siegel et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2024

    Social rewards are strong drivers of behavior and fundamental to well-being, yet there is a lack of consensus regarding what actually defines a reward as "social." Because a systematic overview of existing social reward operationalizations is currently absent, a review of the literature seems necessary to advance toward a unified framework and to better guide research and theory. To bridge this gap, we preregistered and conducted the first compre…

  • Volunteers’ concerns about facial neuromuscular electrical stimulation

    Open AccessThemis Nikolas Efthimiou, Paul H P Hanel et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2022

    Facial neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) is the application of an electrical current to the skin to induce muscle contractions and has enormous potential for basic research and clinical intervention in psychology and neuroscience. Because the technique remains largely unknown, and the prospect of receiving electricity to the face can be daunting, willingness to receive facial NMES is likely to be low and gender differences might exist i…

  • EmoSex

    Sebastian Korb, Nace Mikuš et al.ARTICLEEmotion2022

    Appraisals can be influenced by cultural beliefs and stereotypes. In line with this, past research has shown that judgments about the emotional expression of a face are influenced by the face's sex, and vice versa that judgments about the sex of a person somewhat depend on the person's facial expression. For example, participants associate anger with male faces, and female faces with happiness or sadness. However, the strength and the bidirection…

  • The effects of self-relevance vs. reward value on facial mimicry

    Open AccessPaul A G Forbes, Sebastian Korb et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2021

    Facial mimicry is a ubiquitous social behaviour modulated by a range of social cues, including those related to reward value and self-relevance. However, previous research has typically focused on a single moderator at a time, and it remains unknown how moderators interact when studied together. We compared the influence of reward value and self-relevance, by conditioning participants to associate certain faces with winning or losing money for th…

  • Slower access to visual awareness but otherwise intact implicit perception of emotional faces in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders

    Open AccessJoana Grave, Nuno Madeira et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2021

  • Facial responses of adult humans during the anticipation and consumption of touch and food rewards

    Open AccessSebastian Korb, Claudia Massaccesi et al.ARTICLECognition2020

  • Face proprioception does not modulate access to visual awareness of emotional faces in a continuous flash suppression paradigm

    Open AccessSebastian Korb, Sofia Adelaide Osimo et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2017

  • The two sides of spontaneity

    Open AccessEvan W Carr, Sebastian Korb et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2014References: 46