PUBLICATIONS (last 10 years)
Malinowski, P., & Wróbel, M. (2026). Reward, affiliative, and dominance smiles are categorised more accurately when defined in morphological than socio-functional terms. Cognition and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2026.2711842
Wróbel, M., Zickfeld, J. H., & Ciesielski, P. (2025). The Emotional Crying Behavior Dataset (ECBD): A comprehensive resource to study the multifaceted nature of emotional crying. Behavior Research Methods, 57, 281. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02766-4
Wróbel, M., Zickfeld, J. H., & Ciesielski, P. (2025). The honesty behind tears: Situational, individual, and cultural influences on the perception of emotional tears as sincere. PLOS One, 20, e0324954. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324954
Koszałkowska, K., & Wróbel, M. (2024). Traditional identity contents predict women’s amusement with sexist jokes about men through benevolent but not hostile sexism. Humor, 37(4), 551–576. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2024-0012
Czarna, A. Z, Wróbel, M., Folger, L. F., Holtzman, N. S, Daley, J. R., & Foster, J. D. (2024). Narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder: Evolutionary roots and emotional profiles. In L. Al-Shawaf & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions(pp. 1197-1217). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.62
Zickfeld, J. H., & Wróbel, M. (2024). Emotional tears as social motivators: When and How Tearing up motivates social support. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(1). e12921. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12921
Olszanowski, M., & Wróbel, M. (2024). Why we mimic emotions even when no one is watching: Limited visual contact and emotional mimicry. Emotion Review, 16(1), 16–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739231193639
Wągrowska, J., & Wróbel, M. (2022). What makes people cry? A preliminary analysis of situations that evoke emotional tears. Annals of Psychology, 25(4) https://doi.org/10.18290/rpsych2022.0012
Wróbel, M., Wągrowska, J., Zickfeld, J. H., & van de Ven, N. (2022). Tears do not influence competence in general, but only under specific circumstances: A systematic investigation across 41 countries. Emotion, 22(2), 292–304. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001010
Wróbel, M., Piórkowska, M., Rzeczkowska, M., Troszczyńska, A., Tołopiło, A., & Olszanowski, M. (2021). The “Big Two” and socially induced emotions: Agency and communion jointly influence emotional contagion and emotional mimicry. Motivation and Emotion, 45, 683–704. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-021-09897-z
Juszkiewicz, A., Lachowicz-Tabaczek, K., & Wróbel, M. (2020). Self-esteem, gender, and emotional contagion: What predicts people’s proneness to “catch” the feelings of others? Personality and Individual Differences, 57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109803
Olszanowski, M., Wróbel, M., & Hess, U. (2020). Mimicking and sharing emotions: A re-examination of the link between facial mimicry and emotional contagion. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 367–376. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1611543
Koszałkowska, K., & Wróbel, M. (2019). Moral judgment of disparagement humor. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2018-0023
Wróbel, M., & Olszanowski, M. (2019). Emotional reactions to dynamic morphed facial expressions: A new method to induce emotional contagion. Annals of Psychology, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.18290/rpsych.2019.22.1-6
Wróbel, M., & Olszanowski, M. (2019). Emotions are not a private matter: Introduction to a special issue on emotions in interpersonal relationships. Annals of Psychology, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.18290/rpsych.2019.22.1-1
Wróbel, M., & Imbir, K. K. (2019). Broadening the perspective on emotional contagion and emotional mimicry: The correction hypothesis. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 14(3), 437–451. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691618808523
Wróbel, M., Finogenow, M., Szymańska, P., & Laurent, J. (2019). Measuring Positive and Negative Affect in a school-based sample: A Polish version of the PANAS-C. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-019-09720-7
Wróbel, M. (2018). I can see that you’re happy, but you’re not my friend: Relationship closeness and affect contagion. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 35(10), 1301–1318. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407517710820
Quirin, M., Wróbel, M., Norcini Pala, A., Stieger, S., Brosschot, J., Kazén, M., Hicks, J. A., Mitina, O., Shanchuan, D., Lasauskaite, L., Silvestrini, N., Steca, P., Padun, M. A., & Kuhl, J. (2018). A cross-cultural validation of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT): Results from ten countries across three continents. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 34(1), 52–63. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000315
Królewiak, K., & Wróbel, M. (2017). Czy uśmiech ładnych ludzi jest bardziej zaraźliwy? Atrakcyjność fizyczna jako moderator zarażania afektywnego. Psychologia Społeczna. 12(4), 397–404. https://doi.org/10.7366/1896180020174303
Wróbel, M., & Królewiak, K. (2017). Do we feel the same way if we think the same way? Shared attitudes and the social induction of affect. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 39, 19-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2016.1227709
Kowalska, M., & Wróbel, M. (2017). Basic emotions. W: V. Zeigler-Hill, T. K. Shackelford (red.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Nowy Jork: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_495-1
Wróbel, M. (2017). Emotional affectivity. W: V. Zeigler-Hill, T. K. Shackelford (red.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Nowy Jork: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_507-1
Jabłońska, K., & Wróbel, M. (2016). Wpływ kontekstu podczas rozpoznawania mimicznych ekspresji emocjonalnych a płeć. Psychologia Społeczna, 11, 160-169. https://doi.org/10.7366/1896180020163703
Wróbel, M. (2016). Zarażanie afektywne – o procesie transferu emocji i nastroju między ludźmi. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.
PRE-PRINTS
Zickfeld, J. H., Wróbel, M., & Ciesielski, P. (2026). The when, who, why, and how of crocodile tears: Manipulative crying is associated with specific situations, traits, motivations, and expressive behaviors. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k8daw_v1
Kaczuba-Kozic, A., Koszałkowska, K., & Wróbel, M. (2026). Tears for better, for worse: Typology and measure of crying in romantic relationships. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4gcwn_v2
Lachowicz-Tabaczek, K., & Wróbel, M. (2026). Emotional tears and objectification: A uniquely human emotional expression buffers the tendency to objectify an interaction partner. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5704773
Malinowski, P., & Wróbel, M. (2026). Reward, affiliative, and dominance smiles are categorised more accurately when defined in morphological than socio-functional terms. Cognition and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2026.2711842
Wróbel, M., Zickfeld, J. H., & Ciesielski, P. (2025). The Emotional Crying Behavior Dataset (ECBD): A comprehensive resource to study the multifaceted nature of emotional crying. Behavior Research Methods, 57, 281. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02766-4
Wróbel, M., Zickfeld, J. H., & Ciesielski, P. (2025). The honesty behind tears: Situational, individual, and cultural influences on the perception of emotional tears as sincere. PLOS One, 20, e0324954. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324954
Koszałkowska, K., & Wróbel, M. (2024). Traditional identity contents predict women’s amusement with sexist jokes about men through benevolent but not hostile sexism. Humor, 37(4), 551–576. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2024-0012
Czarna, A. Z, Wróbel, M., Folger, L. F., Holtzman, N. S, Daley, J. R., & Foster, J. D. (2024). Narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder: Evolutionary roots and emotional profiles. In L. Al-Shawaf & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions(pp. 1197-1217). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.62
Zickfeld, J. H., & Wróbel, M. (2024). Emotional tears as social motivators: When and How Tearing up motivates social support. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(1). e12921. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12921
Olszanowski, M., & Wróbel, M. (2024). Why we mimic emotions even when no one is watching: Limited visual contact and emotional mimicry. Emotion Review, 16(1), 16–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739231193639
Wągrowska, J., & Wróbel, M. (2022). What makes people cry? A preliminary analysis of situations that evoke emotional tears. Annals of Psychology, 25(4) https://doi.org/10.18290/rpsych2022.0012
Wróbel, M., Wągrowska, J., Zickfeld, J. H., & van de Ven, N. (2022). Tears do not influence competence in general, but only under specific circumstances: A systematic investigation across 41 countries. Emotion, 22(2), 292–304. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001010
Wróbel, M., Piórkowska, M., Rzeczkowska, M., Troszczyńska, A., Tołopiło, A., & Olszanowski, M. (2021). The “Big Two” and socially induced emotions: Agency and communion jointly influence emotional contagion and emotional mimicry. Motivation and Emotion, 45, 683–704. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-021-09897-z
Juszkiewicz, A., Lachowicz-Tabaczek, K., & Wróbel, M. (2020). Self-esteem, gender, and emotional contagion: What predicts people’s proneness to “catch” the feelings of others? Personality and Individual Differences, 57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109803
Olszanowski, M., Wróbel, M., & Hess, U. (2020). Mimicking and sharing emotions: A re-examination of the link between facial mimicry and emotional contagion. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 367–376. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1611543
Koszałkowska, K., & Wróbel, M. (2019). Moral judgment of disparagement humor. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2018-0023
Wróbel, M., & Olszanowski, M. (2019). Emotional reactions to dynamic morphed facial expressions: A new method to induce emotional contagion. Annals of Psychology, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.18290/rpsych.2019.22.1-6
Wróbel, M., & Olszanowski, M. (2019). Emotions are not a private matter: Introduction to a special issue on emotions in interpersonal relationships. Annals of Psychology, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.18290/rpsych.2019.22.1-1
Wróbel, M., & Imbir, K. K. (2019). Broadening the perspective on emotional contagion and emotional mimicry: The correction hypothesis. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 14(3), 437–451. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691618808523
Wróbel, M., Finogenow, M., Szymańska, P., & Laurent, J. (2019). Measuring Positive and Negative Affect in a school-based sample: A Polish version of the PANAS-C. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-019-09720-7
Wróbel, M. (2018). I can see that you’re happy, but you’re not my friend: Relationship closeness and affect contagion. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 35(10), 1301–1318. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407517710820
Quirin, M., Wróbel, M., Norcini Pala, A., Stieger, S., Brosschot, J., Kazén, M., Hicks, J. A., Mitina, O., Shanchuan, D., Lasauskaite, L., Silvestrini, N., Steca, P., Padun, M. A., & Kuhl, J. (2018). A cross-cultural validation of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT): Results from ten countries across three continents. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 34(1), 52–63. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000315
Królewiak, K., & Wróbel, M. (2017). Czy uśmiech ładnych ludzi jest bardziej zaraźliwy? Atrakcyjność fizyczna jako moderator zarażania afektywnego. Psychologia Społeczna. 12(4), 397–404. https://doi.org/10.7366/1896180020174303
Wróbel, M., & Królewiak, K. (2017). Do we feel the same way if we think the same way? Shared attitudes and the social induction of affect. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 39, 19-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2016.1227709
Kowalska, M., & Wróbel, M. (2017). Basic emotions. W: V. Zeigler-Hill, T. K. Shackelford (red.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Nowy Jork: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_495-1
Wróbel, M. (2017). Emotional affectivity. W: V. Zeigler-Hill, T. K. Shackelford (red.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Nowy Jork: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_507-1
Jabłońska, K., & Wróbel, M. (2016). Wpływ kontekstu podczas rozpoznawania mimicznych ekspresji emocjonalnych a płeć. Psychologia Społeczna, 11, 160-169. https://doi.org/10.7366/1896180020163703
Wróbel, M. (2016). Zarażanie afektywne – o procesie transferu emocji i nastroju między ludźmi. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.
PRE-PRINTS
Zickfeld, J. H., Wróbel, M., & Ciesielski, P. (2026). The when, who, why, and how of crocodile tears: Manipulative crying is associated with specific situations, traits, motivations, and expressive behaviors. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k8daw_v1
Kaczuba-Kozic, A., Koszałkowska, K., & Wróbel, M. (2026). Tears for better, for worse: Typology and measure of crying in romantic relationships. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4gcwn_v2
Lachowicz-Tabaczek, K., & Wróbel, M. (2026). Emotional tears and objectification: A uniquely human emotional expression buffers the tendency to objectify an interaction partner. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5704773