Current publications of Arvid Kappas via Google Scholar here

Poluektova, O., Kappas, A., & Smith, C.A. (in press). Using Bandura’s Self-Efficacy Theory to explain individual differences in the appraisal of problem-focused coping potential. Emotion Review

Stower, R., Abdelghani, R., Tschopp, M., Evangelista, K., Chetouani, M., & Kappas, A. (2022).Exploring space for robot mistakes in child robot interactions. Interaction Studies, 23 (2), 243-288. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.21034.sto


Krumhuber E. G., & Kappas A. (2022). More what Duchenne smiles do, less what they express. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 17 (6), 1566-1575. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211071083

Tatarian, K., Stower, R., Rudaz, D., Chamoux, M., Kappas, A., & Chetouani, M. (2022). How does modality matter? Investigating the synthesis and effects of multi-modal robot behavior on social intelligence. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14, 893–911. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-021-00839-w


Dukes, D., Abrams, K., Adolphs, R., Ahmed, M. E., Beatty, A., Berridge, K. C., Broomhall, S., Brosch, T., Campos, J. J., Clay, Z., Clément, F., Cunningham, W. A., Damasio, A., Damasio, H., D’Arms, J., Davidson, J. W., de Gelder, B., Deonna, J., de Sousa, R., … Sander, D. (2021). The rise of affectivism. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(7), 816–820. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01130-8.

Stower, R., Calvo-Barajas, N., Castellano, G., & Kappas, A. (2021). A Meta-analysis on Children’s Trust in Social Robots. International Journal of Social Robotics. 13, 1979-2001. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00736-8

Vanman, E. J., Kappas, A., & Ito, T. A. (2021). Social neuroscience is more than the study of the human brain: The legacy of John Cacioppo. Social Neuroscience, 16(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2021.1879459


Kappas, A., Stower, R., & Vanman, E.J. (2020). Communicating with robots: What we do wrong and what we do right in artificial social intelligence and what we need to do better. In R.J. Sternberg & A Kostić (Eds.). Social intelligence and nonverbal communication (pp. 233-254). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34964-6_8

Vanman, E.J., & Kappas, A. (2019). “Danger, Will Robinson!” The Challenges of Social Robots for Intergroup Relations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13 (8) . https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12489

Swiderska, A., Krumhuber, E.G., & Kappas, A. (2019). Behavioral and physiological responses to computers in the ultimatum game. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, 15, 33-45. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJTHI.2019010103

D’Mello, S., Kappas, A., & Gratch, J. (2018). The affective computing approach to affect measurement. Emotion Review, 10(2), 174–183. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073917696583

Krumhuber, E.G., Tsankova, E., & Kappas, A. (2018). Examining subjective and physiological responses to norm violation using text-based vignettes: Norm Violation Vignettes. International Journal of Psychology, 53(1), 23–30. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12253

Obaid, M., Aylett, R., Barendregt, W., Basedow, C., Corrigan, L.J., Hall, L., Jones, A., Kappas, A., Küster, D., Paiva, A., Papadpoulos, F., Serholt, S., & Castellano, G. (2018). Endowing a robotic tutor with empathic qualities: Design and pilot evaluation. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 15(06), 1850025. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219843618500251

Liu, T., & Kappas, A. (2018). Estimating Gradual-Emotional Behavior in One-Minute Videos with ESNs. ArXiv:1805.08690 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08690

Tsankova, E., Vanman, E.J., & Kappas, A. (2018). Interaction of stereotypical trustworthiness, facial resemblance, and group membership in the perception of trustworthiness and other traits. Journal of Trust Research, 8(1), 31–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/21515581.2018.1453824

Kappas, A. (2017). The psychology of (Cyber)emotions. In J. Holyst (ed.) Cyberemotions (pp. 37-52). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43639-5_3

Küster, D. & Kappas, A. (2017). Measuring emotions online: Expression and Psychophysiology. In J. Holyst (ed.) Cyberemotions (pp. 71-93). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43639-5_5

Spieler, I., Scheibe, S., Stamov-Roßnagel, C., & Kappas, A. (2017). Help or hindrance? day-level relationships between flextime use, work-nonwork boundaries, and affective well-being. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102(1), 67-87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000153

Garcia, D., Kappas, A., Küster, D., & Schweitzer, F. (2016). The dynamics of emotions in online interaction. Royal Society Open Science, 3(8), 160059. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160059

Krumhuber, E., Tsankova, E., & Kappas, A. (2016 Examining subjective and physiological responses to norm violation using text-based vignettes: Norm Violation Vignettes. International Journal of Psychology, 53(1), 23–30. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12253

Degens, N., Hofstede, G. J., Beulens, A., Krumhuber, E., & Kappas, A. (2016). Don’t Be a Stranger-Designing a Digital Intercultural Sensitivity Training Tool that is Culture General. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 9(2), 120–132. https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2015.2456912

Kappas, A., Küster, D., Dente, P., & Basedow, C. (2016). Shape of things to come: Facial electromyography vs automatic facial coding via FACET. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.12618.98245

Chołoniewski, J., Chmiel, A., Sienkiewicz, J., Hołyst, J., Küster, D., & Kappas, A., (2016). Temporal Taylor's scaling of facial electromyography and electrodermal activity in the course of emotional stimulation. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 90, 91-100 doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2016.04.023.

Tsankova, E. & Kappas, A. (2016). Facial skin smoothness as an indicator of perceived trustworthiness and related traits. Perception, 45(4), 400-408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0301006615616748

Papadopoulos, F., Küster, D., Corrigan, L. J., Kappas, A., & Castellano, G. (2016). Do relative positions and proxemics affect the engagement in a Human-Robot collaborative scenario? Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 17(3), 321–347. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.17.3.01pap

Alves-Oliveira, P., Küster, D., Kappas, A., & Paiva, A. (2016). Psychological Science in HRI: Striving for a More Integrated Field of Research. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21549.49129

Calvo, R.A. D'Mello, S. Gratch, J. & Kappas, A. (Eds.) (2015), Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing. New York, NY, Oxford University Press.

Calvo, R.A. D'Mello, S. Gratch, J., & Kappas, A. (2015), Introduction to affective computing. In Calvo, R.A., D'Mello, S. Gratch, J., & Kappas, A. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing (pp. 1-8). New York, NY, Oxford University Press.

Charlton, J. P., Kappas, A. & Swiderska, A. (2015). Does computing anger have social elements? A comparison with driving anger. Behaviour & Information Technology, 34, 294-303. doi: 10.1080/0144929X.2014.895421

Hall, L., Tazzyman, S., Hume, C., Endrass, B., Lim, M., Hofstede, G.J., Paiva, A., Andre, E., Kappas, A., & Aylett, R. (2015). Learning to overcome cultural conflict through engaging with intelligent agents in synthetic cultures. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 25, 291-317. doi: 10.1007/s40593-014-0031-y

Krumhuber, E., Kappas, A., Hume, C., Hall, L., & Aylett, R. (2015). From Non-human to Human: Adult’s and Children’s Perceptions of Agents Varying in Humanness. In W.-P. Brinkman, J. Broekens, & D. Heylen (Eds.), Intelligent Virtual Agents (Vol. 9238, pp. 471–474). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21996-7_50

Krumhuber, E. G., Swiderska, A., Tsankova, E., Kamble, S. V., & Kappas, A. (2015). Real or artificial? Intergroup biases in mind perception in a cross-cultural perspective. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0137840. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137840

Chmiel, A., Sienkiewicz, J., Paltoglou, G., Buckley, K., Skowron, M., Thelwall, M., Kappas, A., & Holyst, J.A. (2014). Collective emotions online: Dynamics of the crowd in social media. In N. Agarwal, M. Lim, & R.T. Wigand (Eds.) Online collective action (pp. 59-74). Vienna, Austria: Springer.

Corrigan, L. J., Basedow, C., Küster, D., Kappas, A. Peters, C., & Castellano, G. (2014). Mixing implicit and explicit probes: Finding a ground truth for engagement in social human-robot interactions. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction (pp. 140-141). New York, NY: ACM.

Küster, D., & Kappas, A. (2014). What could a body tell a social robot that it does not know? In A. Holzinger, S. H. Fairclough, D. Majoe, & H. P. da Silva (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems (pp. 358-367). SciTePress Digital Library. doi:10.5220/0004892503580367

Küster, D., Krumhuber, E., Kappas, A. (2014). Nonverbal behavior online: A focus on interactions with and via artificial agents and avatars. In Kostic A. & D. Chadee (eds.) Social psychology of nonverbal communication (pp. 272-302). New York, N.Y.:Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345868_13

Skowron, M., Rank, S., Swiderska, A., Küster, D., & Kappas, A. (2014). Applying A Text-Based Affective Dialogue System in Psychological Research: Case Studies in the Context of Decision Making and Social Exclusion. Cognitive Computation, 6(4), 872–891. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-014-9271-2

Thelwall, M., & Kappas, A. (2014). The role of sentiment in the social web. In C. von Scheve, C. & M. Salmela, (Eds.) Collective Emotions: Perspectives from psychology, philosophy, and sociology (pp. 375-388). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Aylett, R., Lim, M. Y., Hall, L., Tazzyman, S., Endrass, B., Andre, E., Ritter, C.M., Nazir, A., Paiva, A., Hofstede, J.J., & Kappas, A. (2014). Werewolves, cheats, and cultural sensitivity. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2014). (Vol. 2, pp. 1085-1092). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

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