dr. M.E. (Mariska) Kret MSc
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Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Work and Organizational Psychology
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Weesperplein
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1018 XA Amsterdam
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M.E.Kret@uva.nl
T: 0205256633
Brief summary of research over the last five years
My PhD focused on the perception of emotional body language and innovated the field of affective neuroscience that was characterized by an almost exclusive focus on facial expressions. I showed that the brain processes body movements similarly as facial expressions but initiate clearer action patterns. I argued that body language is evolutionary seen older than facial expressions and inspired by Darwins work on emotions and by contemporary primatologists, I experimentally tested this statement in a group of chimpanzees at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute. With use of the emotional dot probe paradigm presented on a touch-screen, I showed that chimpanzees process chimpanzee body language similarly as humans do and I recently extended that line of research with the bonobos in 'de Apenheul'. Thanks to the interactions with these beautiful apes, I developed an interest in the use of eye-signals. Humans are the only species on earth with much visible eye-white that evolved for communicative purposes. Despite this difference with the chimpanzee, I have shown that humans, as well as chimpanzees synchronize their pupil-size with their own species. In my VENI project (which started in January 2015) I investigate emotion processing, pupil-mimicry, their neurophysiological underpinnings and implications for social decision making in humans as well as in great apes.
Areas of Expertise Comparative studies, evolutionary psychology, emotion perception, mimicry and synchronization, social anxiety and depression, fMRI, psychophysiology, oxytocin, multi-level modeling
2015
- M.E. Kret & A. Ploeger (in press). Emotion processing deficits: A liability spectrum providing insights into comorbidity of mental disorders. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
- C.K.W. de Dreu & M.E. Kret (2015). Oxytocin Conditions Intergroup Relations Through Up-Regulated In Group Empathy, Cooperation, Conformity, and Defense. Biological Psychiatry.
2014
- F.S. ten Velden, M. Baas, S. Shalvi, M.E. Kret & C.K.W. de Dreu (2014). Oxytocin differentially modulates compromise and competitive approach but not withdrawal to antagonists from own vs. rivaling other groups. Brain Research, 1580, 172-179. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.09.013
- M.E. Kret, M. Tomonaga, C. de Dreu, A. Fischer & T. Matsuzawa (2014). Role of pupil-synchronization in trust. In C.C. Duncan (Ed.), Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP2014) of the International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP) Hiroshima, Japan Vol. 94/2. International Journal of Psychophysiology (pp. 173-174). Elsevier.[go to publisher's site]
- M.E. Kret, M. Tomonaga & T. Matsuzawa (2014). Chimpanzees and humans mimic pupil-size of conspecifics. PLoS One, 9 (8), e104886. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104886[go to publisher's site]
2013
- M.E. Kret & B. de Gelder (2013). When a smile becomes a fist: the perception of facial and bodily expressions of emotion in violent offenders. Experimental Brain Research, 228 (4), 399-410. doi: 10.1007/s00221-013-3557-6[go to publisher's site]
- M.E. Kret, K. Roelofs, J.J. Stekelenburg & B. de Gelder (2013). Emotional signals from faces, bodies and scenes influence observers' face expressions, fixations and pupil-size. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 810. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00810
- M.E. Kret, J.J. Stekelenburg, K. Roelofs & B. de Gelder (2013). Perception of face and body expressions using electromyography, pupillometry and gaze measures. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 28. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00028
- M.E. Kret & C.K.W. de Dreu (2013). Oxytocin-motivated ally selection is moderated by fetal testosterone exposure and empathic concern. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7, 1. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00001
2012
- M.E. Kret & B. de Gelder (2012). A review on sex differences in processing emotional signals. Neuropsychologia, 50 (7), 1211-1221. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.12.022[go to publisher's site]
- M.E. Kret & B. de Gelder (2012). Islamic headdress influences how emotion is recognized from the eyes. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 110. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00110
- M.E. Kret (2012). De invloed van een niqab op het herkennen van gezichtsexpressies. De Psycholoog, 47 (10), 10-19.
2011
- M.E. Kret, S. Sinke & B. de Gelder (2011). Emotion perception and health. In Emotion regulation and well-being (pp. 261-280). New York: Springer.
- M.E. Kret, S. Pichon, J. Grèzes & B. de Gelder (2011). Men fear other men most: gender specific brain activations in perceiving threat from dynamic faces and bodies - an fMRI study. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 3. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00003[go to publisher's site]
- M.E. Kret, J. Denollet, J. Grèzes & B. de Gelder (2011). The role of negative affectivity and social inhibition in perceiving social threat: an fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 49 (5), 1187-1193. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.007[go to publisher's site]
- M.E. Kret, S. Pichon, J. Grèzes & B. de Gelder (2011). Similarities and differences in perceiving threat from dynamic faces and bodies: an fMRI study. NeuroImage, 54 (2), 1755-1762. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.08.012[go to publisher's site]
2010
- C. Sinke, M.E. Kret & B. de Gelder (2010). Embodied perception of emotion. In MINET: Measuring the impossible. Psychology press.
- M.E. Kret & B. de Gelder (2010). Social context influences recognition of bodily expressions. Experimental Brain Research, 203 (1), 169-180. doi: 10.1007/s00221-010-2220-8[go to publisher's site]
- B. de Gelder, J. van den Stock, H.K.M. Meeren, C.B.A. Sinke, M.E. Kret & M. Tamietto (2010). Standing up for the body. Recent progress in uncovering the networks involved in processing bodies and bodily expressions. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 34 (4), 513-527. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.10.008
2014
- M.E. Kret (2014). Wanneer een lach een vuist wordt: perceptie van gezichts- en lichaamsexpressie bij gewelddadige delinquenten. De Psycholoog, 49 (3), 46-54.
2011
- M.E. Kret (2011, May 31). Context, gender and personality factors, influencing the perception of facial and bodily expressions of emotion. UvT, Tilburg University (Ridderkerk: Ridderprint). Supervisor(s): B. de Gelder.
Prijs
- M.E. Kret (2014). The perception of emotional body language in the bonobo. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Dr. J.L. Dobberke Stichting. € 3.630,-. Recognition.
- M.E. Kret (2014). NWO VENI grant. Role of Pupil-synchronization in Trust. Recognition.
- M.E. Kret (2012). Funding for project "Emotion perception in humans and chimpanzees". Recognition.
- M.E. Kret (2012). Visiting researcher at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute. Recognition.
- M.E. Kret (2011). Post-doctoral position for six months at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute. Recognition.
Prijs
- M.E. Kret & L. Colzato (2015). Symposium at the International Convention of Psychological Science.
- M.E. Kret (2015). Organizing Committee Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie- winter conference in Egmond aan Zee.
- M.E. Kret & A. Ploeger (2014). Evolutionary Psychology & Primatology.
- M.E. Kret & L. Colzato (2014). NVP symposium on "hot cognition".
- M.E. Kret (2013). Wintercongres Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie.
- M.E. Kret (2013). Organizing Committee Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie- winter conference in Egmond aan Zee.
- M.E. Kret (2012). Mini-symposium about oxytocin and testosterone.
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