From Mimicry to Trust: A Tinbergian Approach

Project Information

CoPAN

Grant agreement ID: 804582

DOI

10.3030/804582

EC signature date 19 December 2018

Start date 1 June 2019

End date 30 November 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (31)

Preliminary evidence that eye appearance in parrots (Psittaciformes) co-varies with latitude and altitude

Author(s): Elif Duran, Juan Olvido Perea-García, Diede Piepenbrock, Celine Veefkind, Mariska E. Kret, Jorg J. M. Massen
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-63599-3

The rise of affectivism

Author(s): Daniel Dukes, Kathryn Abrams, Ralph Adolphs, Mohammed E. Ahmed, Andrew Beatty, Kent C. Berridge, Susan Broomhall, Tobias Brosch, Joseph J. Campos, Zanna Clay, Fabrice Clément, William A. Cunningham, Antonio Damasio, Hanna Damasio, Justin D’Arms, Jane W. Davidson, Beatrice de Gelder, Julien Deonna, Ronnie de Sousa, Paul Ekman, Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Ernst Fehr, Agneta Fischer, Ad Foolen, Ute Freve
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 5, 2023, Page(s) 816-820, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01130-8

Multimodal mate choice: Exploring the effects of sight, sound, and scent on partner choice in a speed-date paradigm

Author(s): Tom S. Roth, Iliana Samara, Mariska E. Kret
Published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, Issue 42, 2021, Page(s) 461-468, ISSN 1090-5138
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.04.004

Priming using Human and Chimpanzee Expressions of Emotion Biases Attention toward Positive Emotions

Author(s): Anna Matsulevits, Mariska E. Kret
Published in: Cognition and Emotion, 2025, ISSN 0269-9931
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.20.562671

Experimental evidence for yawn contagion in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus).

Author(s): Evy van Berlo; Alejandra P. Díaz-Loyo; Oscar E. Juárez-Mora; Mariska E. Kret; Jorg J. M. Massen
Published in: Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2020), Issue 2, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79160-x

Attention Biases to Threat in Infants and Parents: Links to Parental and Infant Anxiety Dispositions

Author(s): Evin Aktar; Evin Aktar; Cosima A. Nimphy; Mariska E. Kret; Koraly Pérez-Edgar; Maartje E. J. Raijmakers; Maartje E. J. Raijmakers; Susan M. Bögels
Published in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2730-7166
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-021-00848-3

The Association Between the Bared-Teeth Display and Social Dominance in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Author(s): Yena Kim; Jolinde M. R. Vlaeyen; Raphaela Heesen; Zanna Clay; Mariska E. Kret
Published in: Affective Science, Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 2433-5428
Publisher: Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1007/s42761-022-00138-1

Low relationship quality predicts scratch contagion during tense situations in orangutans ( Pongo pygmaeus )

Author(s): Daan W. Laméris, Evy Berlo, Elisabeth H. M. Sterck, Thomas Bionda, Mariska E. Kret
Published in: American Journal of Primatology, Issue 82/7, 2020, ISSN 0275-2565
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23138

Smile mimicry smoothens human-virtual human interactions

Author(s): Evania L. Fasya, Esther van den Bos, Dirk K.J. Heylen, Mariska E. Kret
Published in: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Issue 183, 2024, Page(s) 103182, ISSN 1071-5819
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103182

My Fear Is Not, and Never Will Be, Your Fear: On Emotions and Feelings in Animals

Author(s): Mariska E. Kret; Jorg J. M. Massen; Frans B. M. de Waal
Published in: Affective Science, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2662-2041
Publisher: Holtzbrinck Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s42761-021-00099-x

Gaze into social bonds: Unlocking great ape emotions through eye-tracking

Author(s): Mariska E. Kret
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 121, 2023, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2319953121

No Evidence for Biased Attention Towards Emotional Scenes in Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

Author(s): D. W. Laméris; E. van Berlo; T. S. Roth; M. E. Kret
Published in: Affective Science, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2662-2041
Publisher: Holtzbrinck Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s42761-022-00158-x

Perceptual integration of bodily and facial emotion cues in chimpanzees and humans

Author(s): Raphaela Heesen, Yena Kim, Mariska E Kret, Zanna Clay
Published in: PNAS Nexus, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae012

Eye contact during virtual storytelling: Enhancing social evaluation through pupil mimicry

Author(s): Evania L. Fasya, Esther van den Bos, Dirk K.J. Heylen, Mariska E. Kret
Published in: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Issue 203, 2025, Page(s) 103558, ISSN 1071-5819
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103558

Automatic Change Detection of Emotional and Neutral Body Expressions: Evidence From Visual Mismatch Negativity

Author(s): Xiaobin Ding, Jianyi Liu, Tiejun Kang, Rui Wang, Mariska E. Kret
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 10, 2019, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01909

No immediate attentional bias towards or choice bias for male secondary sexual characteristics in Bornean orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus)

Author(s): Tom S. Roth, Iliana Samara, Juan Olvido Perea-Garcia, Mariska E. Kret
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-62187-9

How video calls affect mimicry and trust during interactions

Author(s): Diana, F.; Juárez-Mora, O.E.; Boekel, W.; Hortensius, R.; Kret, M.E.
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/vrkdf

A comparative framework of inter-individual coordination and pair-bonding

Author(s): Tom S Roth, Iliana Samara, Jingzhi Tan, Eliska Prochazkova, Mariska E Kret
Published in: Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Issue 39, 2021, Page(s) 98-105, ISSN 2352-1546
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.03.005

Conscious awareness is necessary to assess trust and mimic facial expressions, while pupils impact trust unconsciously

Author(s): E. Prochazkova; D. Venneker; R. de Zwart; M. Tamietto; M. E. Kret
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0183

The Interplay Between Face-to-Face Contact and Feedback on Cooperation During Real-Life Interactions

Author(s): Friederike Behrens, Mariska E. Kret
Published in: Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, Issue 43/4, 2019, Page(s) 513-528, ISSN 0191-5886
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-019-00314-1

Preprocessing pupil size data: Guidelines and code

Author(s): Mariska E. Kret, Elio E. Sjak-Shie
Published in: Behavior Research Methods, Issue 51/3, 2019, Page(s) 1336-1342, ISSN 1554-3528
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-018-1075-y

Pupil mimicry in infants and parents

Author(s): Evin Aktar, Maartje E. J. Raijmakers, Mariska E. Kret
Published in: Cognition and Emotion, 2020, Page(s) 1-11, ISSN 0269-9931
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2020.1732875

Emotional expressions in human and non-human great apes

Author(s): Mariska E. Kret, Eliska Prochazkova, Elisabeth H.M. Sterck, Zanna Clay
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.01.027

Pupils say more than a thousand words: Pupil size reflects how observed actions are interpreted

Author(s): François Quesque, Friederike Behrens, Mariska E. Kret
Published in: Cognition, Issue 190, 2019, Page(s) 93-98, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.016

Scleral pigmentation leads to conspicuous, not cryptic, eye morphology in chimpanzees

Author(s): Juan Olvido Perea-García, Mariska E. Kret, Antónia Monteiro, Catherine Hobaiter
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 116/39, 2019, Page(s) 19248-19250, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1911410116

The exceptions that prove the rule? Spontaneous helping behaviour towards humans in some domestic dogs

Author(s): Linda Jaasma, Isabelle Kamm, Annemie Ploeger, Mariska E. Kret
Published in: Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Issue 224, 2020, Page(s) 104941, ISSN 0168-1591
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2020.104941

Beyond Right and Wrong: Fostering Connection in Emotion Theory Debates

Author(s): Karlijn van Heijst, Annemie Ploeger, Mariska E. Kret
Published in: Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2025, ISSN 1745-6916
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/17456916251319042

Individual attractiveness preferences differentially modulate immediate and voluntary attention

Author(s): Roth, Tom; Samara, Iliana; Perea-Garcia, Juan Olvido; Kret, Mariska E.; Animal Behaviour and Cognition; Sub Animal Behaviour and Cognition
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-29240-5

The ontogeny of human laughter.

Author(s): Mariska E. Kret; Dianne Venneker; Bronwen Evans; Iliana Samara; Disa Sauter
Published in: Crossref, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 1744-9561
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0319

Emotion recognition in nonhuman primates: How experimental research can contribute to a better understanding of underlying mechanisms.

Author(s): Elisabeth G.I. Nieuwburg; Annemie Ploeger; Mariska E. Kret
Published in: Neuroscience Biobehavioural Reviews, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.11.029

Basic Emotions or Constructed Emotions: Insights From Taking an Evolutionary Perspective

Author(s): Karlijn van Heijst, Mariska E. Kret, Annemie Ploeger
Published in: Perspectives on Psychological Science, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) 377-391, ISSN 1745-6916
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/17456916231205186