Mirella Walker

Aquino, A., Fontanella, L., Walker, M., Haddock, G. & Alparone, F. (2025). What your face says: How signals of communion and agency inform first impressions and behavioral intentions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 55(1), 54-69. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3117

Walker, M. & Stephan , E. (2024). The effect of approach and avoidance motivation on self-perception. Acta Psychologica,(248), ---. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15629679

Stephan , E. & Walker, M. (2024). The true self in reflections? Visual self-recognition and the Big Five. European Journal of Social Psychology, 2024. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3089

Schiller, B., Brustkern, J., Hamm, A., Heinrichs, M. & Walker, M. (2023). Oxytocin has sex-specific effects on trust and underlying neurophysiological processes. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2023(151), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106076

Jaffé, M.E., Jeitziner, L., Keller, M.D. & Walker, M. (2022). Differences in faces do make a difference: Diversity perceptions and preferences in faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,(100:2), 104277-104277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104277

Wesselmann, K. & Walker, M. (2021). Chance Mehrsprachigkeit: Latein als sozialer Katalysator. Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht, 251-270. https://ojs.tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php/zif/article/view/1144

Brustkern, J., Heinrichs, M., Schiller, B. & Walker, M. (2021). Facial threat affects trust more strongly than facial attractiveness in women than it does in men. Scientific Reports,(11), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01775-5

Oh, D., Walker, M. & Freeman, J.B. (2021). Person knowledge shapes face identity perception. Cognition,(217), 104889-104889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104889

Rudert, S.C., Keller, M.D., Hales, A.H., Walker, M. & Greifeneder, R. (2020). Who gets ostracized? A personality perspective on risk and protective factors of ostracism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,(118:6), 1247-1268. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000271

Keller, M.D., Walker, M. & Reutner, L. (2020). Sex sells? The role of female agency in sexualized advertisements. Social Psychological Bulletin,(15:1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.2643

Walker, M. & Keller, M.D. (2019). Beyond attractiveness: A multi-method approach to study enhancement in self-recognition on the Big Two personality dimensions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,(117:3), 483-499. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000157

Formanowicz, M., Goldenberg, A., Saguy, T., Pietraszkiewicz, A., Walker, M. & Gross, J.J. (2018). Understanding dehumanization: The role of agency and communion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.04.003

Stolier, R.M., Hehman, E., Keller, M.D., Walker, M. & Freeman, J.B. (2018). The conceptual structure of face impressions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(37), 9210-9215. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807222115

Walker, M., Schönborn, S., Greifeneder, R. & Vetter, T. (2018). The Basel Face Database: A validated set of photographs reflecting systematic differences in Big Two and Big Five personality dimensions. PloS One, 13(3), e0193190-e0193190. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193190

Funk, F., Walker, M. & Todorov, A. (2017). Modelling perceptions of criminality and remorse from faces using a data-driven computational approach. Cognition and Emotion,(31: 7), 1431-1443. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1227305

Walker, M. & Wänke, M. (2017). Caring or daring? Exploring the impact of facial masculinity/femininity and gender category information on first impressions. PloS One,(12: 10), e0181306-e0181306. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181306

Rudert, S.C., Reutner, L., Greifeneder, R. & Walker, M. (2017). Faced with exclusion: Perceived facial warmth and competence influence moral judgments of social exclusion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,(68), 101-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.06.005

Walker, M. & Vetter, T. (2016). Changing the personality of a face: Perceived Big Two and Big Five personality factors modeled in real photographs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,(110: 4), 609-624. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000064

Rudert, S.C., Reutner, L., Walker, M. & Greifeneder, R. (2015). An unscathed past in the face of death: Mortality salience reduces individuals' regrets. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,(58), 34-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2014.12.006

Walker, M., Jiang, F., Sczesny, S. & Vetter, T. (2011). Universals and cultural differences in forming personality trait judgments from faces. Social Psychological and Personality Science,(2: 6), 609-617. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550611402519

Walker, M. & Vetter, T. (2009). Portraits made to measure: Manipulating social judgments about individuals with a statistical face model. Journal of Vision, ---. https://doi.org/10.1167/9.11.12

Vetter, T. & Walker, M. (2011). Computer-generated images in face perception. In A.J. Calder, G. Rhodes, M.H. Johnson & J.V. Haxby (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Face Perception (pp. 388-399). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Walker, M. & Niklaus, R. (2025). Bewusst ins Berufsleben - Unterrichtseinheit zur gendersensiblen Berufsorientierung. 6. Fachtagung «Von der Schule zum Beruf» zum Thema «Voll am Limit! – Mehrfach belastete Jugendliche im Übergang begleiten», FHNW Olten, 08.11.2025 bis 08.11.2025.

Hofer, F. & Walker, M. (2025). Übergänge als Herausforderung für Diversität und Inklusion [Symposium]. Jahreskongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Bildungsforschung (SGBF) und der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung (SGL), Pädagogische Hochschule Luzern, 02.07.2025 bis 04.07.2025. https://www.conftool.pro/sgbf2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=422

Walker, M. & Niklaus, R. (2025). Implizite Assoziationen als Herausforderung für Diversität in der Berufsausbildung. Jahreskongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Bildungsforschung (SGBF) und der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung (SGL), Pädagogische Hochschule Luzern, 02.07.2025 bis 04.07.2025. https://www.conftool.pro/sgbf2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=422

Walker, M. (2025). Die Geschichtenoase: Ein ausserschulisches Angebot für Kinder mit Fluchterfahrungen. Fachkonferenz Heterogenität, Luzern, 06.02.2025.