Publications

Journal Articles

• Goel, S., Jara-Ettinger, J., Ong, D. C., & Gendron, M. (2024). Face and context integration in emotion inference is limited and variable across categories and individuals. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2443.
• Li, Z., Lu, H., Liu, D., Yu, A. N. C., & Gendron, M. (2023). Emotional event perception is related to lexical complexity and emotion knowledge. Communications Psychology 1, 45.
• Hoemann, K., Gendron, M., Crittenden, A. N., Mangola, S. M., Dussault, È., Endeko, E. S., … & de Mesquita, B. G. (in press). What we can learn about emotion by talking with the Hadza. Perspectives in Psychological Science. Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/sm2cp/
• Brady, W.J., McLoughlin, K.L., Torres, M.P., Luo, K.F., Gendron, M., & Crockett, M.J. (2023). Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 917–927.
• Hoemann, K., Lee, Y., Kuppens, P., Gendron, M., & Boyd, R. L. (2023). Emotional granularity is associated with daily experiential diversity. Affective Science, 4(2), 291-306. Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/24mpf
• Erbas, Y., Gendron, M., & Fugate, J. M. (2022). The role of emotional granularity in emotional regulation, mental disorders, and well-being. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 1080713.
• Lindquist, K. A., Jackson, J. C., Leshin, J., Satpute, A. B., & Gendron, M. (2022). The cultural evolution of emotion. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-13.
• Goel, S., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Gendron, M. (2022). Modeling Cue-integration in Emotion Inferences. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44.
• Hoemann, K., Gendron, M. & Barrett, L.F. (2022). Assessing the Power of Words to Facilitate Emotion Category Learning. Affective Science. 
• Klabunde, M., Piccirilli, A., Bruno, J., Gendron, M., & Reiss, A. L. (2022). Empathic accuracy in adolescent girls with Turner Syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-10.
• Le Mau, T., Hoemann, K., Lyons, S. H., Fugate, J., Brown, E. N. , Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2021). Professional actors demonstrate variability, not stereotypical expressions, when portraying emotional states in photographs. Nature communications, 12(1), 1-13.
• Doyle, C., Gendron, M. & Lindquist, K. (2021). Language is a unique context for emotion perception. Affective Science, 2, 171–177.
• Hoemann, K., Vicaria, I. M., Gendron, M., & Stanley, J. T. (2020). Introducing a Face Sort Paradigm to Evaluate Age Differences in Emotion Perception. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Science, 76 (7), 1272-1281.
• Gendron, M., Hoemann, K., Crittenden, A. N., Mangola, S. M., Ruark, G. A., & Barrett, L. F. (2020). Emotion Perception in Hadza Hunter-Gatherers. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 3867.
• Klabunde, M., Piccirilli, A., Bruno, J., Gendron, M., & Reiss, A. L. (2020). Empathic accuracy in adolescent girls with Turner Syndrome [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. 
• Hoemann, K., Crittenden, A. N., Msafiri, S., Liu, Q., Li, C., Roberson, D., Ruark, G. A., Gendron, M., & Feldman Barrett, L. (2019). Context facilitates performance on a classic cross-cultural emotion perception task. Emotion, 19(7), 1292–1313.
• Gendron, M., and Barrett, L.F., (2019). A Role for Emotional Granularity in Judging.  Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 9(5), 557-576.
• Hoemann, K., Crittenden, A. N., Msafiri, S., Liu, Q., Li, C., Roberson, D., Ruark, G. A., Gendron, M., & Feldman Barrett, L. (2019). Context facilitates performance on a classic cross-cultural emotion perception task. Emotion, 19(7), 1292–1313. 
• Yin, Y., Nabian, M., Ostadabbas, S., Fan, M., Chou, C., & Gendron, M. (2018). Facial Expression and Peripheral Physiology Fusion to Decode Individualized Affective Experience.  Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 86, 10-25.
• Gendron, M., Crivelli, C., & Barrett, L. F. (2018). Universality reconsidered: Diversity in meaning making about facial expressions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(4), 211-219.
• Gendron, M. & Barrett, L.F. (2018). Emotion perception as conceptual synchrony. Emotion Review, 10(2), 101-110.
• Fugate, J., Gendron, M., Nakashima, S. F., & Barrett, L. F. (2018). Emotion words: Adding face value. Emotion, 18(5), 693-706.
• Hu, Z., Gendron, M., Liu, Q., Zhao, G., & Li, H. (2017). Trait anxiety impacts the perceived gaze direction of fearful but not angry faces. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 1186.
• Gendron, M. (2017). Revisiting diversity: cultural variation reveals the constructed nature of emotion perception. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 145-150.
• Atzil, S., & Gendron, M. (2017). Bio-Behavioral Synchrony Promotes the Development of Conceptualized Emotions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 162-169.
• Hoemann, K., Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2017). Mixed emotions in the predictive brain. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 15, 51-57.
• Brooks, J.A.,* Shablack, H.,* Gendron, M., Satpute, A.B., Parrish, M.J., & Lindquist, K.A. (2017). The role of language in the experience and perception of emotion: A neuroimaging meta-analysis. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2,169-183. [*authors contributed equally]  
• Ye, C., Hu, Z., Ristaniemi, T., Gendron, M., & Liu, Q. (2016). Retro-dimension-cue benefit in visual working memory. Scientific reports, 6, 35573.
• Barrett, L. F. & Gendron, M. (2016). The Importance of Context: Four Corrections to Cordaro, Keltner, Tshering, Wangchuk, & Flynn (2016).  Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 16(6), 803–806. 
• Gendron, M., Roberson, D., & Barrett, L. F. (2015). Cultural variation in emotion perception is real: A response to Sauter et al. Psychological Science, 26, 357-359. 
• Lindquist, K.A., Satpute, A.B., & Gendron, M. (2015). Does language do more than communicate emotion? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 99-108.  
• Lindquist, K.A.,* Gendron, M.,* Barrett, L.F.* & Dickerson, B.C.* (2014). Emotion perception, but not affect perception, is impaired with semantic memory loss. Emotion, 4, 375-387. [*authors contributed equally].
• Gendron, M., Roberson, D., van der Vyver, J. M., & Barrett, L. F (2014). Cultural relativity in perceiving emotion from vocalizations. Psychological Science, 25, 911-920.
• Gendron, M., Roberson, D., van der Vyver, J. M., & Barrett, L. F (2014). Perceptions of emotion from facial expressions are not culturally universal: Evidence from a remote culture. Emotion, 14, 251-262.
• Lindquist, K. A., Gendron, M., Oosterwijk, S., & Barrett, L. F. (2013). Do people essentialize emotions? Individual differences in emotion essentialism and emotional experience. Emotion, 13, 629-644.
• Lindquist, K.A., & Gendron, M. (2013). What’s in a word? Language constructs emotion perception. Emotion Review, 5, 66-71.
• Gendron, M., Lindquist, K., Barsalou, L., & Barrett, L. F. (2012). Emotion words shape emotion percepts. Emotion, 12, 314-325.
• Barrett, L. F., Mesquita, B., & Gendron, M. (2011). Emotion perception in context. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 286-290.
• Gendron, M. (2010). Defining emotion: A brief history. Emotion Review, 2, 371-372.
• Barrett, L.F., Gendron, M., Huang, Y-M. (2009). Do discrete emotions exist? Philosophical Psychology, 22, 427-437.
• Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2009). Reconstructing the past: A century of ideas about emotion in psychology. Emotion Review, 1, 1-24.
• Barrett, L. F., Lindquist, K., Bliss-Moreau, E., Duncan, S., Gendron, M., Mize, J., & Brennan, L. (2007). Of mice and men: Natural kinds of emotion in the mammalian brain? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 297-312.
• Barrett, L. F., Lindquist, K., & Gendron, M. (2007). Language as a context for emotion perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 327-332.

Book Chapters 

• Gendron, M. (2021). The evolving neuroscience of emotion: Challenges and opportunities for integration with the law. In S. Bandes, J. Madeira, & E. Kidd White (Eds.), The Research Handbook on Law and Emotion. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Gendron, M., Mesquita, B., & Barrett, L. F. (2020). Concepts, actions and experiences within the human affective niche. In L. Kirmayer, S. Kitayama, R. Lemelson, & C. Worthman (Eds.), Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Models, Applications. Cambridge University Press.
• Gendron, M. & Barrett, L. F. (2018). How and why are emotions communicated? In Fox, A. S., Lapate, R. C., Shackman, A. J. & Davidson, R. J. (Eds.), The nature of emotion: Fundamental questions (2nd edition). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Crivelli, C. & Gendron, M. (2017). Facial Expressions and Emotions in Indigenous Societies. In J.M. Fernandez-Dols & J.A. Russell (Eds). The Science of Facial Expression. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Gendron, M. & Barrett, L. F. (2017). Facing the Past: A history of the face in psychological research on emotion perception. In J.M. Fernandez-Dols & J.A. Russell (Eds). The Science of Facial Expression. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Lindquist, K.A., Gendron, M., & Satpute, A.B. (2016). Language and emotion: Putting words into feelings and feelings into words. In L.F. Barrett, M. Lewis & J.M. Haviland-Jones (Eds.) Handbook of Emotions (4th ed.). New York: Guilford.
• Gendron, M., Mesquita, B., & Barrett, L. F. (2013). Emotion perception. Chapter in D. Reisberg (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology (p. 379-389). New York: Oxford University Press.

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