1st Edition

Facets of Emotion Recent Research

Edited By K. R. Scherer Copyright 1988
    278 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    278 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    First published in 1988. We are presently witnessing a renaissance of research on emotion. In the last 10 years, an increasing number of empirical studies dealing with many different aspects of emotion has appeared. This monograph of research papers counteract the tendency toward dispersion and the lack of published work in this area. A major intent of this volume is to introduce a number of new methodological tools for research on emotion (for example, facet theory, non-metrical regression for patterns, voice resynthesis, and other methods) as well as to reassert the utility of some classical tools of social science research for studies of emotion (e.g., properly constructed questionnaires). In addition, it presents a number of theoretical notions that seem relevant to a systematic study of the emotion process (such as component process theory, a taxonomy of appraisal and coping dimensions, contextual and situational approaches, and inter-channel comparison). It is hoped that the results presented in this volume can serve as hypotheses for further work in this area. In the Appendix several sets of research materials are reprinted to encourage use in student research projects.

    Contents: Part A:Emotional Experience in Everyday Life. K.R. Scherer, D. Matsumoto, H.G. Wallbot, T. Kudoh, Emotional Experience in Cultural Context: A Comparison Between Europe, Japan and the USA. H.G. Wallbott, K.R. Scherer, How Universal and Specific is Emo- tional Experience? Evidence from 27 Countries on Five Continents. Part B:Cognitive Dimensions of Emotion Appraisal. T. Gehm, K.R. Scherer, Relating Situation Evaluation to Emotion Differentiation: Nonmetric Analysis of Cross-Cultural Questionnaire Data. I. Borg, T. Staufenbiel, K.R. Scherer, On the Symbolic Basis of Shame and Pride: A Facet Theory Approach. K.R. Scherer, T. Gehm, Dimensions of Subjective Emotional Space. Part C:Emotion Signalling in Person Perception. F. Tolkmitt, G. Bergmann, T. Goldbeck, K.R. Scherer, Vocal Affect Communication: Experimental Evidence. H.G. Wallbott, Faces in Context: The Relative Importance of Facial Expression and Context Information in Determining Emotion Attribution. U. Hess, A. Kappas, K.R. Scherer, Multichannel Communication of Emotion: Synthetic Signal Production.

    Biography

    KLAUS R. SCHERER University of Geneva and University of Giessen