Marcello Mortillaro

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Marcello Mortillaro is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcello Mortillaro has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Social Psychology, 21 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Marcello Mortillaro's work include Face Recognition and Perception (16 papers), Emotion and Mood Recognition (14 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (9 papers). Marcello Mortillaro is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (16 papers), Emotion and Mood Recognition (14 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (9 papers). Marcello Mortillaro collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and France. Marcello Mortillaro's co-authors include Klaus R. Scherer, Nele Dael, Tanja Bänziger, Florian Eyben, Björn W. Schuller, Felix Weninger, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Marc Méhu, Elizabeth Clark‐Polner and Antonio Camurri and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Applied Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Marcello Mortillaro

35 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

The INTERSPEECH 2013 computational paralinguistics challenge: social signals, conflict, emotion, autism

2013 503 citations Björn W. Schuller, Stefan Steidl et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marcello Mortillaro Switzerland	17	1.2k	821	785	504	457	36	2.3k
Frank Russo Canada	31	1.6k 1.3×	807 1.0×	1.9k 2.5×	942 1.9×	334 0.7×	143	3.5k
Alan Cowen United States	21	978 0.8×	806 1.0×	907 1.2×	159 0.3×	260 0.6×	40	2.1k
Tanja Bänziger Sweden	19	948 0.8×	640 0.8×	715 0.9×	177 0.4×	208 0.5×	32	1.8k
Khiet P. Truong Netherlands	20	1.3k 1.0×	577 0.7×	298 0.4×	752 1.5×	1.1k 2.4×	91	2.3k
Guillaume Chanel Switzerland	24	1.1k 0.9×	462 0.6×	1.2k 1.6×	232 0.5×	291 0.6×	53	2.3k
Steven R. Livingstone Canada	19	1.0k 0.8×	374 0.5×	684 0.9×	760 1.5×	342 0.7×	32	1.9k
Marc Méhu Austria	19	1.1k 0.9×	532 0.6×	436 0.6×	118 0.2×	154 0.3×	37	1.6k
Jeffrey M. Girard United States	21	1.3k 1.1×	393 0.5×	536 0.7×	177 0.4×	154 0.3×	56	2.2k
Laurence Devillers France	22	2.2k 1.8×	630 0.8×	367 0.5×	1.5k 2.9×	1.9k 4.1×	99	3.6k
Harald G. Wallbott Germany	21	1.4k 1.2×	1.8k 2.2×	1.1k 1.4×	187 0.4×	413 0.9×	43	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Marcello Mortillaro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcello Mortillaro

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Delplanque, Sylvain, et al.. (2025). How do emotionally intelligent individuals react to other people’s emotions? A study on emotional and facial reactions. BMC Psychology. 13(1). 224–224.

Schlegel, Katja, et al.. (2025). Large language models are proficient in solving and creating emotional intelligence tests. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 80–80. 4 indexed citations

Blal, Inès, et al.. (2023). Emotional intelligence matters in hospitality education: contributions of emotional intelligence, fluid ability, and personality to hospitality grades. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1148863–1148863. 4 indexed citations

Mortillaro, Marcello & Katja Schlegel. (2023). Embracing the Emotion in Emotional Intelligence Measurement: Insights from Emotion Theory and Research. Journal of Intelligence. 11(11). 210–210. 10 indexed citations

Simonet, Daniel V., Katherine E. Miller, Kevin L. Askew, et al.. (2021). How Multidimensional Is Emotional Intelligence? Bifactor Modeling of Global and Broad Emotional Abilities of the Geneva Emotional Competence Test. Journal of Intelligence. 9(1). 14–14. 14 indexed citations

Aylett, Ruth, et al.. (2020). Real-time simulation of virtual humans' emotional facial expressions, harnessing autonomic physiological and musculoskeletal control. 1–8. 5 indexed citations

Scherer, Klaus R., et al.. (2019). Investigating appraisal-driven facial expression and inference in emotion communication.. Emotion. 21(1). 73–95. 11 indexed citations

Scherer, Klaus R., et al.. (2019). Dynamic Facial Expression of Emotion and Observer Inference. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 508–508. 29 indexed citations

Schuller, Björn W., Felix Weninger, Yue Zhang, et al.. (2018). Affective and behavioural computing: Lessons learnt from the First Computational Paralinguistics Challenge. Computer Speech & Language. 53. 156–180. 36 indexed citations

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Mortillaro, Marcello & Daniel Dukes. (2018). Jumping for Joy: The Importance of the Body and of Dynamics in the Expression and Recognition of Positive Emotions. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 763–763. 11 indexed citations

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Scherer, Klaus R., et al.. (2018). Appraisal-driven facial actions as building blocks for emotion inference.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 114(3). 358–379. 31 indexed citations

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Glowinski, Donald, Marcello Mortillaro, Klaus R. Scherer, Nele Dael, & Antonio Camurri. (2015). Towards a minimal representation of affective gestures (Extended abstract). 498–504. 9 indexed citations

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Mortillaro, Marcello & Klaus R. Scherer. (2014). Stressed Out: How Stress Develops and How to Cope with it. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 16–21. 2 indexed citations

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Schuller, Björn W., Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, et al.. (2013). The INTERSPEECH 2013 computational paralinguistics challenge: social signals, conflict, emotion, autism. 148–152. 503 indexed citations breakdown →

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Visch, Valentijn, Martijn Goudbeek, & Marcello Mortillaro. (2013). Robust anger: Recognition of deteriorated dynamic bodily emotion expressions. Cognition & Emotion. 28(5). 936–946. 8 indexed citations

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Scherer, Klaus R., Marcello Mortillaro, & Marc Méhu. (2013). Understanding the Mechanisms Underlying the Production of Facial Expression of Emotion: A Componential Perspective. Emotion Review. 5(1). 47–53. 41 indexed citations

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Weninger, Felix, Florian Eyben, Björn W. Schuller, Marcello Mortillaro, & Klaus R. Scherer. (2013). On the Acoustics of Emotion in Audio: What Speech, Music, and Sound have in Common. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 292–292. 182 indexed citations

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Méhu, Marc, Marcello Mortillaro, Tanja Bänziger, & Klaus R. Scherer. (2012). Reliable facial muscle activation enhances recognizability and credibility of emotional expression.. Emotion. 12(4). 701–715. 49 indexed citations

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Bänziger, Tanja, Marcello Mortillaro, & Klaus R. Scherer. (2011). Introducing the Geneva Multimodal expression corpus for experimental research on emotion perception.. Emotion. 12(5). 1161–1179. 289 indexed citations

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Dael, Nele, Marcello Mortillaro, & Klaus R. Scherer. (2011). Emotion expression in body action and posture.. Emotion. 12(5). 1085–1101. 285 indexed citations

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