Outputs (5)

Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication (2023)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Lanfranco, R. C., Kausel, L., Yu, Z., Boncompte, G., …Derrfuss, J. (2023). Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication. Perception, 52(11-12), 812-843. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066231204180

The aim of the current research was to explore whether we can improve the recognition of cross-cultural freely-expressed emotional faces in British participants. We tested several methods for improving the recognition of freely-expressed emotional fa... Read More about Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication.

Unbiased individual unconsciousness: Rationale, replication and developing applications (2023)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Karlis, A., Mével, P., Madan, C., Derrfuss, J., & Milbank, A. (2023). Unbiased individual unconsciousness: Rationale, replication and developing applications. Current Research in Behavioural Sciences, 4, Article 100109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crbeha.2023.100109

“The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness (2023)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Yu, Z., Karlis, A. K., Tong, E. M. W., Milbank, A., …Madan, C. (2024). “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness. Current Psychology, 43(5), 3999-4015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04518-z

Sadness has typically been associated with failure, defeat and loss, but it has also been suggested that sadness facilitates positive and restructuring emotional changes. This suggests that sadness is a multi-faceted emotion. This supports the idea t... Read More about “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures (2021)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Yu, Z., Kausel, L., Boncompte, G., Lanfranco, R. C., Oxner, M., …Chapman, P. (2021). “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures. Perception, 50(12), 1027-1055. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211055983

The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturally. These emotions are expressed using specific facial movements that enable human communic... Read More about “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures.

“Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality (2021)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Qing Leong, M., Yu, Z., Paterakis, G., Bali, P., Derrfuss, J., …Mitchell, P. (2021). “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality. Psychological Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01461-7

Psychological theory and research suggest that religious individuals could have differences in sensitivity to immoral behaviors and cognition compared to non-religious individual. This effect could occur due to perceptual and physiological difference... Read More about “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality.