Disa Sauter

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Disa Sauter is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Disa Sauter has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Social Psychology, 46 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 41 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Disa Sauter's work include Emotions and Moral Behavior (26 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (22 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (21 papers). Disa Sauter is often cited by papers focused on Emotions and Moral Behavior (26 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (22 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (21 papers). Disa Sauter collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Disa Sauter's co-authors include Sophie K. Scott, Frank Eisner, Dacher Keltner, Agneta H. Fischer, Alan Cowen, Paul Ekman, Jessica L. Tracy, Martin Eimer, Jacob Israelashvili and Andrew J. Calder and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Disa Sauter

97 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cross-cultural recognition of basic emotions through nonverbal emotional vocalizations

2010 477 citations Disa Sauter, Frank Eisner et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
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						Papers	Cites
Disa Sauter Netherlands	35	2.2k	1.6k	1.6k	495	419	101	4.1k
Marc D. Pell Canada	42	3.0k 1.4×	2.5k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	443 0.9×	773 1.8×	124	4.9k
Jo‐Anne Bachorowski United States	22	816 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 2.1×	362 0.9×	40	3.5k
Marcel Zentner United Kingdom	22	1.7k 0.8×	971 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	688 1.4×	192 0.5×	31	3.1k
Kristen A. Lindquist United States	36	4.3k 2.0×	2.9k 1.8×	2.6k 1.6×	916 1.9×	568 1.4×	111	7.5k
Maria Gendron United States	24	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	292 0.6×	318 0.8×	46	3.2k
Sylvie Droit‐Volet France	47	5.4k 2.5×	3.4k 2.1×	1.3k 0.8×	535 1.1×	825 2.0×	166	7.0k
Daniel C. Richardson United Kingdom	33	2.1k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	223 0.5×	1.1k 2.7×	82	4.2k
Skyler T. Hawk Netherlands	32	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	1.6k 3.1×	247 0.6×	71	5.1k
Nikolaus Steinbeis United Kingdom	29	1.7k 0.8×	859 0.5×	892 0.6×	383 0.8×	595 1.4×	60	2.7k
Maurizio Codispoti Italy	35	4.0k 1.9×	2.4k 1.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 2.1×	222 0.5×	78	6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Disa Sauter

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Disa Sauter

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Fischer, Agneta H., et al.. (2025). Emotions are perceived differently from posed and spontaneous facial expressions.. Emotion. 25(6). 1605–1621. 1 indexed citations

Fischer, Agneta H., et al.. (2024). (Not) showing you feel good, can be bad: The consequences of breaking expressivity norms for positive emotions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 113. 104600–104600. 1 indexed citations

Nikolić, Milica, et al.. (2024). The blushing brain: neural substrates of cheek temperature increase in response to self-observation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2027). 20240958–20240958. 2 indexed citations

Doosje, Bertjan, et al.. (2024). The Socio-Ecological Factors Associated with Mental Health Problems and Resilience in Refugees: A Systematic Scoping Review. Trauma Violence & Abuse. 26(3). 598–616. 3 indexed citations

Kamiloglu, Roza Gizem, et al.. (2024). When to Laugh, When to Cry: Display Rules of Nonverbal Vocalisations Across Four Cultures. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 49(1). 9–33. 1 indexed citations

Molho, Catherine, et al.. (2023). Beyond Outrage: Observers Anticipate Different Behaviors From Expressors of Anger Versus Disgust. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 15(4). 450–460. 4 indexed citations

Singh, Manvir, Luke Glowacki, Quentin D. Atkinson, et al.. (2023). Universal interpretations of vocal music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(37). e2218593120–e2218593120. 13 indexed citations

Kamiloglu, Roza Gizem & Disa Sauter. (2023). Sounds like a fight: listeners can infer behavioural contexts from spontaneous nonverbal vocalisations. Cognition & Emotion. 38(3). 277–295. 2 indexed citations

Keltner, Dacher, et al.. (2022). Cultural variability in appraisal patterns for nine positive emotions. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 6(1). 51–75. 6 indexed citations

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Kret, Mariska E., et al.. (2021). The ontogeny of human laughter. Biology Letters. 17(9). 20210319–20210319. 7 indexed citations

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Israelashvili, Jacob, et al.. (2021). Emotion Recognition from Realistic Dynamic Emotional Expressions Cohere with Established Emotion Recognition Tests: A Proof-of-Concept Validation of the Emotional Accuracy Test. Journal of Intelligence. 9(2). 25–25. 10 indexed citations

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Sauter, Disa, et al.. (2021). Culture shapes emotion perception from faces and voices: changes over development. Cognition & Emotion. 35(6). 1175–1186. 17 indexed citations

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Israelashvili, Jacob, Disa Sauter, & Agneta H. Fischer. (2020). Two facets of affective empathy: concern and distress have opposite relationships to emotion recognition. Cognition & Emotion. 34(6). 1112–1122. 59 indexed citations

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Sauter, Disa, Onno Crasborn, Roza Gizem Kamiloglu, et al.. (2019). Human emotional vocalizations can develop in the absence of auditory learning.. Emotion. 20(8). 1435–1445. 8 indexed citations

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Israelashvili, Jacob, Disa Sauter, & Agneta H. Fischer. (2019). Different faces of empathy: Feelings of similarity disrupt recognition of negative emotions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 87. 103912–103912. 38 indexed citations

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Israelashvili, Jacob, Suzanne Oosterwijk, Disa Sauter, & Agneta H. Fischer. (2019). Knowing me, knowing you: emotion differentiation in oneself is associated with recognition of others’ emotions. Cognition & Emotion. 33(7). 1461–1471. 51 indexed citations

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Israelashvili, Jacob, Disa Sauter, & Agneta H. Fischer. (2019). How Well Can We Assess Our Ability to Understand Others’ Feelings? Beliefs About Taking Others’ Perspectives and Actual Understanding of Others’ Emotions. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 2475–2475. 38 indexed citations

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Pleyers, Gordy, et al.. (2013). Joint effect of alexithymia and mood on the categorization of nonverbal emotional vocalizations. Psychiatry Research. 216(2). 242–247. 13 indexed citations

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Sauter, Disa, Frank Eisner, Paul Ekman, & Sophie K. Scott. (2010). Cross-cultural recognition of basic emotions through nonverbal emotional vocalizations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(6). 2408–2412. 477 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sauter, Disa. (2010). Are positive vocalizations perceived as communicating happiness across cultural boundaries?. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 3(5). 440–442. 5 indexed citations

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