Emotion Communication by the Aging Face and Body: A Multidisciplinary View

Ursula Hess is Professor of Psychology at Humboldt-University zu Berlin, Germany and President of the International Society for Research on Emotion. Her research focuses on emotion communication, particularly nonverbal synchronization (mimicry) and the role of emotion expressions on impression formation. She has more than 200 scholarly publications, including five books.

Reginald B. Adams, Jr. is Professor of Psychology at Penn State University, USA and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. His research focuses on how social visual cues perceptually combine to form the unified representations that guide our impressions of and responses to others. He has more than 100 scholarly publications, including two books.

Robert E. Kleck is Emeritus Professor at Dartmouth College, USA. His research has focused on the social psychological implications of physical appearance, particularly those that are stigmatizing, and more recently the interaction of facial appearance and facial expression in determining both emotional attribution and person perception outcomes.