Alan Cowen

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
40 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Alan Cowen is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Cowen has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 20 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alan Cowen's work include Emotion and Mood Recognition (15 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (14 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (12 papers). Alan Cowen is often cited by papers focused on Emotion and Mood Recognition (15 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (14 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (12 papers). Alan Cowen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Alan Cowen's co-authors include Dacher Keltner, Disa Sauter, Jessica L. Tracy, Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Petri Laukka, Xia Fang, Gautam Prasad, Hartwig Adam, Florian Schroff and Brendan Jou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Alan Cowen

38 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion br... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2019 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients
    2017 492 citations Alan Cowen, Dacher Keltner profile →
  2. Emotional Expression: Advances in Basic Emotion Theory
    2019 252 citations Dacher Keltner, Disa Sauter et al. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Cowen United States 21 978 907 806 260 205 40 2.1k
Tanja Bänziger Sweden 19 948 1.0× 715 0.8× 640 0.8× 208 0.8× 128 0.6× 32 1.8k
Marc Méhu Austria 19 1.1k 1.1× 436 0.5× 532 0.7× 154 0.6× 573 2.8× 37 1.6k
Marcello Mortillaro Switzerland 17 1.2k 1.3× 785 0.9× 821 1.0× 457 1.8× 353 1.7× 36 2.3k
Eva G. Krumhuber United Kingdom 26 1.4k 1.4× 1.4k 1.6× 1.1k 1.4× 199 0.8× 343 1.7× 94 2.9k
Rachael E. Jack United Kingdom 21 1.6k 1.7× 1.9k 2.1× 1.1k 1.4× 128 0.5× 497 2.4× 56 3.1k
Gustav Kuhn United Kingdom 27 401 0.4× 1.5k 1.7× 898 1.1× 83 0.3× 169 0.8× 88 2.2k
Harald G. Wallbott Germany 21 1.4k 1.5× 1.1k 1.2× 1.8k 2.3× 413 1.6× 245 1.2× 43 3.4k
Gijsbert Bijlstra Netherlands 13 958 1.0× 1.2k 1.3× 557 0.7× 116 0.4× 484 2.4× 28 2.2k
Daniel Reisberg United States 26 1.1k 1.1× 2.0k 2.2× 708 0.9× 179 0.7× 97 0.5× 57 3.1k
Daniel Müllensiefen United Kingdom 27 654 0.7× 2.1k 2.3× 633 0.8× 74 0.3× 355 1.7× 119 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Cowen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Cowen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Cowen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alan Cowen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alan Cowen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alan Cowen. Alan Cowen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brooks, Jeffrey A., Lauren Kim, Dacher Keltner, et al.. (2024). Deep learning reveals what facial expressions mean to people in different cultures. iScience. 27(3). 109175–109175. 6 indexed citations
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Stamkou, Eftychia, et al.. (2024). Emotional palette: a computational mapping of aesthetic experiences evoked by visual art. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 19932–19932. 5 indexed citations
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Kollias, Dimitrios, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Alan Cowen, et al.. (2024). The 6th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition. 4587–4598. 32 indexed citations
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Cowen, Alan, Jeffrey A. Brooks, Gautam Prasad, et al.. (2024). How emotion is experienced and expressed in multiple cultures: a large-scale experiment across North America, Europe, and Japan. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1350631–1350631. 10 indexed citations
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Schuller, Björn W., Anton Batliner, Shahin Amiriparian, et al.. (2023). The ACM Multimedia 2023 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Emotion Share & Requests. OPUS (Augsburg University). 9635–9639. 11 indexed citations
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Amiriparian, Shahin, Alice Baird, Chris Gagne, et al.. (2023). The MuSe 2023 Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge: Mimicked Emotions, Cross-Cultural Humour, and Personalisation. 1–10. 21 indexed citations
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Bliss‐Moreau, Eliza, Kristin A. Buss, Lee Anna Clark, et al.. (2023). The nature and neurobiology of fear and anxiety: State of the science and opportunities for accelerating discovery. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 151. 105237–105237. 37 indexed citations
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Monroy, María, Alan Cowen, & Dacher Keltner. (2022). Intersectionality in emotion signaling and recognition: The influence of gender, ethnicity, and social class.. Emotion. 22(8). 1980–1988. 18 indexed citations
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Baird, Alice, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Jeffrey A. Brooks, et al.. (2022). The ACII 2022 Affective Vocal Bursts Workshop & Competition. 1–5. 7 indexed citations
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Brooks, Jeffrey A., Panagiotis Tzirakis, Alice Baird, et al.. (2022). Deep learning reveals what vocal bursts express in different cultures. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(2). 240–250. 15 indexed citations
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Baird, Alice, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Lauren Kim, et al.. (2022). State & Trait Measurement from Nonverbal Vocalizations: A Multi-Task Joint Learning Approach. Interspeech 2022. 2028–2032. 1 indexed citations
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Keltner, Dacher & Alan Cowen. (2021). A taxonomy of positive emotions. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 39. 216–221. 27 indexed citations
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Cowen, Alan, Dacher Keltner, Florian Schroff, et al.. (2020). Sixteen facial expressions occur in similar contexts worldwide. Nature. 589(7841). 251–257. 145 indexed citations
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Cowen, Alan & Dacher Keltner. (2020). Semantic Space Theory: A Computational Approach to Emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 25(2). 124–136. 77 indexed citations
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Cowen, Alan & Dacher Keltner. (2019). What the face displays: Mapping 28 emotions conveyed by naturalistic expression.. American Psychologist. 75(3). 349–364. 87 indexed citations
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Keltner, Dacher, Disa Sauter, Jessica L. Tracy, & Alan Cowen. (2019). Emotional Expression: Advances in Basic Emotion Theory. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 43(2). 133–160. 252 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cowen, Alan, Petri Laukka, Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Runjing Liu, & Dacher Keltner. (2019). The primacy of categories in the recognition of 12 emotions in speech prosody across two cultures. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(4). 369–382. 83 indexed citations
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Keltner, Dacher, Jessica L. Tracy, Disa Sauter, & Alan Cowen. (2019). What Basic Emotion Theory Really Says for the Twenty-First Century Study of Emotion. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 43(2). 195–201. 71 indexed citations
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Cordaro, Daniel T., Rui Sun, Shanmukh V. Kamble, et al.. (2019). The recognition of 18 facial-bodily expressions across nine cultures.. Emotion. 20(7). 1292–1300. 40 indexed citations
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Cowen, Alan, Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Petri Laukka, & Dacher Keltner. (2018). Mapping 24 emotions conveyed by brief human vocalization.. American Psychologist. 74(6). 698–712. 121 indexed citations

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