Tanja S H Wingenbach- PhD
- Lecturer at University of Reading
Tanja S H Wingenbach
- PhD
- Lecturer at University of Reading
About
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Introduction
Research interests:
facial emotional expressions;
psychophysiology, particularly facial EMG;
facial mimicry;
emotions (processing, expression, experience);
psychiatric disorders/conditions, particularly ASD;
mirror neuron system;
sensory processing
Current institution
Additional affiliations
May 2023 - October 2023
May 2019 - March 2022
University Hospital Zurich/University of Zurich
Position
- PostDoc Position
April 2017 - March 2019
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
Editor roles
Social Psychological Bulletin
Position
- Associate Editor
Education
February 2013 - March 2016
February 2009 - December 2010
September 2005 - June 2008
Publications
Publications (45)
Covert facial mimicry involves subtle facial muscle activation in observers when they perceive the facial emotional expressions of others. It remains uncertain whether prototypical facial features in emotional expressions are being covertly mimicked and also whether covert facial mimicry involves distinct facial muscle activation patterns across mu...
According to embodied cognition accounts, viewing others’ facial emotion can elicit the respective emotion representation in observers which entails simulations of sensory, motor, and contextual experiences. In line with that, published research found viewing others’ facial emotion to elicit automatic matched facial muscle activation, which was fur...
Most of the existing sets of facial expressions of emotion contain static photographs. While increasing demand for stimuli with enhanced ecological validity in facial emotion recognition research has led to the development of video stimuli, these typically involve full-blown (apex) expressions. However, variations of intensity in emotional facial e...
Previous studies report a preference for larger comfortable interpersonal distance (CIPD) in individuals with child maltreatment (CM) when being approached by others. Yet, research on approaching others, as opposed to being approached, as well as on potential effects of social anxiety and depression is lacking. We investigated if CM and depressive...
Stimulating CT-afferents by forearm caresses produces the subjective experience of pleasantness in the receiver and modulates subjective evaluations of viewed affective images. Receiving touch from another person includes the social element of another person's presence, which has been found to influence affective image evaluations without involving...
Background: Individuals with child maltreatment (CM) experiences show alterations in emotion recognition (ER). However, previous research has mainly focused on populations with specific mental disorders, which makes it unclear whether alterations in the recognition of facial expressions are related to CM, to the presence of mental disorders or to t...
Background
Individuals with a history of child maltreatment (CM) are more often disliked, rejected and victimized compared to individuals without such experiences. However, contributing factors for these negative evaluations are so far unknown.
Objective
Based on previous research on adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD), this preregis...
The phenomenon of physiological linkage describes similar fluctuations of two individuals' physiology, for example, the cardiac inter‐beat interval (IBI). Physiological linkage is a well‐documented occurrence in research settings of interacting dyads but the literature on non‐interacting dyads, that is, someone watching a video of another person, i...
Background:
Childhood maltreatment (CM) is frequently linked to interpersonal problems such as difficulties in social relationships, loneliness, and isolation. These difficulties might partly stem from troubles regulating comfortable interpersonal distance (CIPD).
Objective:
We experimentally investigated whether CM manifests in larger CIPD and...
This chapter provides information about facial electromyography (EMG) as a method of investigating emotions and affect, including examples of application and methods for analysis. This chapter begins with a short introduction to emotion theory followed by an operationalisation of facial emotional expressions as an underlying requirement for their s...
Embodiment has been discussed in the context of social, affective, and cognitive psychology, and also in the investigations of neuroscience in order to understand the relationship between biological mechanisms, body and cognitive, and social and affective processes. New theoretical models have been presented by researchers considering not only the...
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-08651-9)
Presents integrative view of neuroscience that is social, affective, moral, political, and interpersonal
Provides a holistic view of social behavior, from the molecular level to daily human interactions
Serves...
Background
Individuals with child maltreatment (CM) experiences are more often disliked, rejected and victimized compared to individuals without such experiences. However, contributing factors for negative evaluations are so far unknown.
Objective
The purpose of this preregistered study, based on previous research on adults with borderline persona...
Pokemon Go (PoGo) is a social mobile game requiring both physical activity and social interaction, and previous research has reported positive effects of PoGo on physical health. However, little research has been conducted on the effects of PoGo on social functioning and life satisfaction, which are important factors for good mental health. The cur...
Makeup is a form of body art which has been used for more than 7,000 years and is present in the great majority of human cultures, often used to enhance facial attractiveness and to accentuate features that represent femininity. This study examines how cumulative levels of facial makeup influenced approach and avoidance tendencies and on facial mus...
Affiliative touch carries affective meaning and affects the receiver. Although research demonstrates that receiving touch modulates the neural processing of emotions, its effects on evaluations of affective stimuli remain unexplored. The current research examined the effects of affiliative touch on the evaluation of affective images across 3 studie...
Gratitude has gained attention in the domain of positive emotion research given its important prosocial role in connecting us to others and fostering well-being. It remains less clear which mechanisms gratitude acts to promote benefits in people’s life. We considered emotional regulation as one of these main processes. Ninety participants were rand...
Individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) show abnormalities in higher-order emotional processes, including emotion regulation and recognition. However, automatic facial responses to observed facial emotion (facial mimicry) has not yet been investigated in PTSD. Furthermore, whereas deficits in facial emotion recognition have been repo...
Everyday human social interaction involves sharing experiences verbally and these experiences often include emotional content. Providing this context generally leads to the experience of emotions in the conversation partner. However, most emotion elicitation stimulus sets are based on images or film-sequences providing visual and/or auditory emotio...
Alguns estudos já mostraram que o toque pode ser capaz de influenciar percepções e
sentimentos. Pesquisas buscaram compreender os efeitos do toque na percepção de
outros, mas ainda não há muitos estudos que comparem os efeitos de tocar alguém
(toque ativo) e de ser tocado (toque passivo), ou que analisem os seus efeitos na
percepção das emoções e s...
According to embodied cognition accounts, viewing others’ facial emotion can elicit the respective emotion representation in observers which entails simulations of sensory, motor, and contextual experiences. In line with that, published research found viewing others’ facial emotion to elicit automatic matched facial muscle activation, which was fur...
There has been much research on sex differences in the ability to recognise facial expressions of emotions, with results generally showing a female advantage in reading emotional expressions from the face. However, most of the research to date has used static images and/or ‘extreme’ examples of facial expressions. Therefore, little is known about h...
Data from the valence and arousal ratings.
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147112.].
Background
A plethora of research on facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) exists and reported deficits in ASD compared to controls, particularly for negative basic emotions. However, these studies have largely used static high intensity stimuli. The current study investigated facial emotion recognition across three levels o...
Accuracy of response data from study 2.
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Data from the study on the judgements of intensity of the ADFES-BIV videos.
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Accuracy of response data from study 1.
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Confusion Matrix for the Emotion Categories in Percentages.
The diagonal shows the correct identifications (marked green). The percentages above and below the diagonal show the confusions of a target emotion with another category with values marked as red confusions greater than chance level (10%).
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Individuals with ASD showed an impairment in facial emotion recognition across intensity levels based on both, difficulties in detecting emotional content from faces and discriminating between emotions from faces.
Background:
Although usually thought of as external environmental stressors, a significant heritable component has been reported for measures of stressful life events (SLEs) in twin studies. Method We examined the variance in SLEs captured by common genetic variants from a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 2578 individuals. Genome-wide compl...
