Research Interests
- Emotion and Social Interaction
- Culture, Morality, and Emotion
- Race and Friendship
- Personality, Psychopathology, and Emotion
- Conflict and Negotiation
- Power and Social Perception and Behavior
Research Articles and Chapters
Van Kleef, G. A., Oveis, C., van der Löwe, I., LuoKogan, A., Goetz, J., & Keltner, D. (in press). Power, distress, and compassion: Turning a blind eye to the suffering of others. Psychological Science. [Download]
Kraus, M. W., & Keltner, D. (in press). Signs of socioeconomic status: A thin-slicing approach. Psychological Science. [Download]
Gonzaga, G. C., Keltner, D., & Ward, D. (in press). Power in mixed-sex interactions. Cognition and Emotion. Keltner, D., Van Kleef, G. A., Chen, S., & Kraus, M. W. (2008). A reciprocal influence model of social power: Emerging principles and lines of inquiry. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 151-192. [Download]
Langner, C. A., & Keltner, D. (2008). Social power and emotional experience: Actor and partner effects within dyadic interactions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 848-856. [Download]
Gruber, J., Johnson, S. L., Oveis, C., & Keltner, D. (2008). Risk for mania and positive emotional responding: Too much of a good thing? Emotion, 8, 23-33. [Download] Bonanno, G. A., Colak, D. M., Keltner, D., Shiota, M. N., Papa, A., Noll, J. G., Putnam, F. W., & Trickett, P. K. (2007). Context matters: The benefits and costs of expressing positive emotion among survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Emotion, 7, 824-837. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Oveis, C. (2007). Elevation. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Keltner, D., & Goetz, J. L. (2007). Compassion. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology (pp. 159-161). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Goetz, J. L., & Keltner, D. (2007). Shifting meanings of self-conscious emotions across cultures: A social functional approach. In J. L. Tracy, R. W. Robins, & J. P. Tangney (Eds.), The Self-conscious emotions: Theory and research (pp. 153-173). New York: Guilford.
Horberg, E. J., & Keltner, D. (2007). Passions for justice. In D. DeCremer (Ed.), Advances in the psychology of justice and affect (pp. 155-174). Greenwich: Information Age Publishing
Gruber, J., & Keltner, D. (2007). Emotional behavior: A survey of methods and concepts. In J. Rottenberg & S. L. Johnson (Eds.), Emotion and psychopathology: Bridging affective and clinical science (pp. 35-52). Washington, D.C: American Psychological Association Books.
Shiota, M. N., Keltner, D., & Mossman, A. (2007). The nature of awe: Elicitors, appraisals, and effects on self-concept. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 944-963. [Download]
Lerner, J. S., Han, S., & Keltner, D. (2007). Feelings and consumer decision making: Extending the appraisal-tendency framework. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 17, 184-187. [Download]
Han, S., Lerner, J. S., & Keltner, D. (2007). Feelings and consumer decision making: The appraisal-tendency framework. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 17, 158-168. [Download]
Parker Tapias, M., Glaser, J., Keltner, D., Vasquez, K., & Wickens, T. (2007). Emotions and prejudice: Specific emotions toward outgroups. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 10, 27-39. [Download]
Campos, B., Keltner, D., Beck, J. M., Gonzaga, G. C., & John, O. P. (2007). Culture and teasing: The relational benefits of reduced desire for positive self-differentiation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 3-16. [Download] Keltner, D., Horberg, E. J., & Oveis, C. (2006). Emotional intuitions and moral play. Social Justice Research, 19, 208-217. [Download]
Keltner, D., Horberg, E. J., & Oveis, C. (2006). Emotions as moral intuitions. In J. P. Forgas (Ed.), Affect in social thinking and behavior (pp. 161-175). New York: Psychology Press. [Download]
Keltner, D., Langner, C. A., & Allison, M. L. (2006). Power and moral leadership. In D. L. Rhode (Ed.), Moral leadership: The theory and practice of power, judgement, and policy (pp. 177-194). Wiley.
Keltner, D., Haidt, J., & Shiota, M. N. (2006). Social functionalism and the evolution of emotions. In M. Schaller, J. A. Simpson, & D. T. Kenrick (Eds.), Evolution and social psychology (pp. 115-142). New York: Psychology Press.
Hertenstein, M. J., Keltner, D., App, B., Bulleit, B. A., Jaskolka, A. R. (2006). Touch communicates distinct emotions. Emotion, 6, 528-533. [Download]
Gonzaga, G. C., Turner, R. A., Keltner, D., Campos, B., & Altemus, M. (2006). Romantic love and sexual desire in close bonds. Emotion, 6, 163-179. [Download]
Shiota, M. N., Keltner, D., & John, O. P. (2006). Positive emotion dispositions differentially associated with Big Five personality and attachment style. Journal of Positive Psychology, 1, 61-71. [Download] Magee, J., Gruenfeld, D. H, Keltner, D. J., & Galinsky, A. (2005). Leadership and the psychology of power. In D. Messick & R. Kramer (Eds.), New perspectives on leadership (pp. 275-294). Erlbaum.
Shiota, M. N., & Keltner, D. (2005). What do emotion words represent?: A commentary on Sabini & Silver. Psychological Inquiry, 16, 32-36. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Beer, J. (2005). Self-conscious emotion and self-regulation. In A. Tesser, J. Wood, & D. Stapel (Eds.), On building, defending, and regulating the self: A psychological perspective (pp. 197-216). Psychology Press.
Heerey, E. A., Capps, L., Keltner, D., & Kring, A. M. (2005). Understanding teasing: Lessons from children with autism. Journal of Child Abnormal Psychology, 33, 55-68. [Download] Cohen, A. B., Rozin, P., & Keltner, D. (2004). Different religions, different emotions [Commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 734-735. [Download]
Campos, B., Keltner, D., & Tapias, M. P. (2004). Emotion. In C. Spielberger (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology (pp. 713-721). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Shiota, M., Keltner, D., Campos, B., & Hertenstein, M. (2004). Positive emotion and the regulation of interpersonal relationships. In P. Phillipot & R. Feldman (Eds.), Emotion regulation (pp. 127-156). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Keltner, D. (2004). The compassionate instinct. Greater Good, 1, 6-9. [Download]
Keltner, D. (2004). Ekman, expression, and the art of empirical epiphany. Journal of Research in Personality, 38, 37-44. [Download]
Haidt, J., & Keltner, D. (2004). Appreciation of beauty and excellent (Awe, Wonder, Elevation). In C. Peterson & M. E. P. Seligman (Eds.), Character Strengths and Virtues (pp. 537-551). New York: Oxford University Press.
Bonanno, G. A., & Keltner, D. (2004). The coherence of emotion systems: Comparing “on-line” measures of appraisal and facial expressions, and self-report. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 431-444. [Download]
Beer, J. S., & Keltner, D. (2004). What is unique about the self-conscious emotions? Psychological Inquiry, 15, 126-129. [Download]
Anderson, C., & Keltner, D. (2004). The emotional convergence hypothesis: Implications for individuals, relationships, and cultures. In L. Z. Tiedens & C. W. Leach (Eds.),The social life of emotions (pp. 144-163). Shiota, M. N., Campos, B., & Keltner, D. (2003). The faces of positive emotion: Prototype displays of awe, amusement, and pride. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1000, 296-299. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Shiota, M. N. (2003). New displays and new emotions: A commentary on Rozin and Cohen. Emotion, 3, 86-91. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Haidt, J. (2003). Approaching awe, a moral, aesthetic, and spiritual emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 297-314. [Download]
Keltner, D., Gruenfeld, D. H., & Anderson, C. (2003). Power, approach and inhibition. Psychological Review, 110, 265-284. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Ekman, P. (2003). Introduction to expression of emotion. In R. Davidson, K. Scherer, & H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of Affective Science (pp. 411-414). London: Oxford University Press.
Keltner, D., Ekman, P., Gonzaga, G. C., & Beer, J. S. (2003). Facial expression of emotion. In R. Davidson, K. Scherer, & H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of Affective Science. (pp. 415-432). London: Oxford University Press.
Keltner, D. (2003). Expression and the course of life: Studies of emotion, personality, and psychopathology from a social functional perspective. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1000, 222-243. [Download]
Heerey, E. A., Keltner, D., & Capps, L. M. (2003). Making sense of self-conscious emotion: Linking theory of mind and emotion in children with autism. Emotion, 3, 394-400. [Download]
Gruenfeld, D. H., Keltner, D., & Anderson, C. (2003). The effects of power upon those who possess it: An interpersonal perspective on social cognition. In G. Bodenhausen & A. Lambert (Eds.), Foundations of social cognition: A festschrift in honor of Robert S. Wyer, Jr. (pp.237-262). Hilldale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Beer, J. S., Heerey, E. A., Keltner, D., Knight, R., & Scabini, D. (2003). The regulatory function of self-conscious emotion: Insights from patients with orbitofrontal damage. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 594-604. [Download]
Anderson, C., Keltner, D., & John, O. P. (2003). Emotional convergence between people over time. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1054-1068. [Download] Keltner, D., Anderson, C., & Gonzaga, G. C. (2002). Culture, emotion, and the good life in the study of affect and judgment. Psychological Inquiry, 13, 65-67. [Download]
Bonanno, G.A., Keltner, D., Noll, J. G., Putnam, F. W., Trickett, P. K., LeJeune, J., & Anderson., C. (2002). When the face reveals what words do not: Facial expressions of emotion, smiling, and the willingness to disclose childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83,. 94-110. [Download]
Anderson, C., & Keltner, D. (2002). The role of empathy in the formation and maintenance of social bonds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25. Vasquez, K., Keltner, D., Ebenbach, D. H., & Banaszynski, T. L. (2001). Cultural variation and similarity in moral rhetorics: Voices from the Philippines and United States. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 32, 93-120. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Haidt, J. (2001). Social functions of emotions. T. Mayne & G. Bonanno (Eds.), Emotions: Current issues and future directions (pp. 192-213). New York: Guilford Press. [Download]
Keltner, D., Capps, L. M., Kring, A. M., Young, R. C., & Heerey, E. A. (2001). Just teasing: A conceptual analysis and empirical review. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 229-248. [Download]
Gonzaga, G. C., Keltner, D., Londahl, E. A., & Smith, M. D. (2001). Love and the commitment problem in romantic relations and friendship. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 247-262. [Download]
Lerner, J., & Keltner, D. (2001). Fear, anger and risk. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 146-159. [Download]
[Awarded special recognition from ISI Web of Science as being in the top 10% of all papers for citations]
Harker, L. A., & Keltner, D. (2001). Expressions of positive emotion in women’s college yearbook pictures and their relationship to personality and life outcomes across adulthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 112-124. [Download]
Anderson, C., John, O. P., Keltner, D., & Kring, A. M. (2001). Who attains social status? Effects of personality and physical attractiveness in social groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 116-132. [Download] Plant, A., Hyde, J. S., Keltner, D., & Devine, P. D. (2000). The gender stereotyping of emotions. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 24, 80 91.
Morris, M. W., & Keltner, D. (2000). How emotions work: An analysis of the social functions of emotional expression in negotiations. Review of Organizational Behavior, 22, 1-50.
Lerner, J. S., & Keltner, D. (2000). Beyond valence: Toward a model of emotion specific influences on judgment and choice. Cognition and Emotion, 14, 473-493. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Ekman, P. (2000). Emotion: An overview. In A. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology. London: Oxford University Press. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Ekman, P. (2000). Facial expression of emotion. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of emotion (pp. 236-249). New York: Guilford Press.
Keltner, D., & Anderson, C. (2000). Saving face for Darwin: Functions and uses of embarrassment. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 9, 187-191. [Download] Keltner, D., & Haidt, J. (1999). Social functions of emotions at four levels of analysis. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 505-522. [Download]
[Reprinted in Emotions in Social Psychology (W.G. Parrott, Ed.). Psychology Press.]
Keltner, D., & Gross, J. J. (1999). Functional accounts of emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 467-480. [Download]
Haidt, J., & Keltner, D. (1999). Culture and facial expression: Open-ended methods find more expressions and a gradient of recognition. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 225-266. [Download]
Keltner, D., Kring, A. M., & Bonanno, G. A. (1999). Fleeting signs of the course of life: Facial expression and personal adjustment. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 18-22. [Download] Bonanno, G. A., Notarius, C. I., Gunzerath, L., Keltner, D., & Horowitz, M. J. (1998). Interpersonal ambivalence, perceived relationship adjustment, and conjugal loss. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 66, 1012-1022. [Download]
Keltner, D., Young, R. C., Heerey, E. A., Oemig, C., & Monarch, N. D. (1998). Teasing in hierarchical and intimate relations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1231-1247. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Kring, A. M. (1998). Emotion, social function, and psychopathology. Review of General Psychology, 2, 320-342. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Harker, L. A. (1998). The forms and functions of the nonverbal display of shame. In P. Gilbert & B. Andrews. Interpersonal approaches to shame. (pp. 78-98). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Keltner, D. (1998). Riches of embarrassment. A review of Rowland Miller’s Embarrassment: Poise and Peril in Everyday Life. Contemporary Psychology, 43, 25-26.
Ebenbach, D. H., & Keltner, D. (1998). Power, emotion, and judgmental accuracy in social conflict: Motivating the cognitive miser. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 20, 7-21. [Download] Keltner, D., & Buswell, B. N. (1997). Embarrassment: Its distinct form and appeasement functions. Psychological Bulletin, 122, 250-270. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Robinson, R. J. (1997). Defending the status quo: Power and bias in social conflict. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 1066-1077. [Download]
Keltner, D., Young, R., & Buswell, B. N. (1997). Appeasement in human emotion, personality, and social practice. Aggressive Behavior, 23, 359-374. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Potegal, M. (1997). Appeasement and reconciliation: Introduction to an Aggressive Behavior special issue. Aggressive Behavior, 23, 309-314.
Keltner, D., & Bonanno, G. A. (1997). A study of laughter and dissociation: The distinct correlates of laughter and smiling during bereavement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 687-702. [Download]
Ekman, P., & Keltner, D. (1997). Universal facial expressions of emotion: An old controversy and new findings. In U. Segerstrale & P. Molnar (Eds), Where nature meets culture: Nonverbal communication in social interaction (pp. 27 - 46). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Bonanno, G. A. & Keltner, D. (1997). Facial expressions of emotion and the course of conjugal bereavement. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 126-137. [Download] Keltner, D., & Robinson, R. J. (1996). Extremism, power, and the imagined basis of social conflict. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 5, 101-105. [Download]
[reprinted in Insights into Social Psychology 2001, Pearson Custom Publishing]
Keltner, D. (1996). Facial expressions of emotion and personality. In C. Malatesta-Magai & S. H. McFadden (Eds), Handbook of emotion, aging, and the lifecourse (pp. 385-402). New York: Academic Press.
Keltner, D., & Ekman, P. (1996). Affective intensity and emotional responses. Cognition and Emotion, 10, 323-328. [Download]
Keltner, D., & Buswell, B. N. (1996). Evidence for the distinctness of embarrassment, shame, and guilt: A study of recalled antecedents and facial expressions of emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 10, 155-171. [Download]
Robinson, R., & Keltner, D. (1996). Much ado about nothing? Revisionists and traditionalists choose an English syllabus. Psychological Science, 7, 18-24. [Download] Bonanno, G. A., Keltner, D., Holen, A., & Horowitz, M. J. (1995). When avoiding unpleasant emotions might not be such a bad thing: Verbal autonomic response dissociation and midlife conjugal bereavement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 975-989. [Download]
Robinson, R., Keltner, D., Ward, A., & Ross, L. (1995). Actual versus assumed differences in construal: "Naive realism" in intergroup perception and conflict. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 404-417. [Download]
[Awarded the 2001 Academy of Management prize for most influential article on conflict and negotiation].
[Reprinted in Negotiation, Decision Making, and Conflict Management. M. H. Bazerman (Ed.), A Reader for Invitation to Social Psychology, D. T. Miller (Ed.)]
Keltner, D., Moffitt, T., & Stouthamer-Loeber, M. (1995). Facial expressions of emotion and psychopathology in adolescent boys. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 104, 644-652. [Download]
[Reprinted with afterward in P. Ekman and E. Rosenberg (Eds.) What Facial Expression Reveals about Emotion, Development, Psychopathology, and Health. New York: Oxford University Press.]
Keltner, D. (1995). The signs of appeasement: Evidence for the distinct displays of embarrassment, amusement, and shame. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 441-454. [Download]
[Reprinted with afterward in P. Ekman and E. Rosenberg (Eds.) What Facial Expression Reveals about Emotion, Development, Psychopathology, and Health. New York: Oxford University Press.] Keltner, D., & Ekman, P. (1994). Facial expressions of emotion: Old questions and new findings. The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2, 361-369. Academic Press. Locke, K. D., & Keltner, D. (1993). Using art for comparison and distraction: Effects on negative emotions and judgments of satisfaction. Cognition and Emotion, 7, 443-460.
Keltner, D., & Robinson, R. J. (1993). Imagined ideological differences in conflict escalation and resolution. The International Journal of Conflict Management, 4, 249-262.
Keltner, D., Locke, K. D., & Audrain, P. C. (1993). The influence of attributions on the relevance of negative emotions to personal satisfaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 19, 21-29. [Download]
Keltner, D., Ellsworth, P. C., & Edwards, K. (1993). Beyond simple pessimism: Effects of sadness and anger on social perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 740-752. [Download]
[Table 4 reprinted in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fourth Edition, (p. 138). Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association.]
