The Social Nature of Emotion Expression

Preface.-

Introduction.-

Part I - The communicative scope of emotion expressions.- 

Chapter 1. The Emotion-based Inferences in Context (EBIC) model.-
Chapter 2. How Can the Theory of Affective Pragmatics Help Us Make Sense of Emotional Communication?.-

Part II - How to draw inferences from emotion expressions.-

Chapter 3. Making meaning with social referencing.-
Chapter 4. What makes us accurate perceivers of emotions in others? The role of social appraisal and similarity.-
Chapter 5. Perceiving emotion in the "neutral" face: A powerful mechanism of person perception.-

Part III - What emotion expressions tell us about the expresser.-

Chapter 6. The reverse engineering of emotions.-
Chapter 7. Emotional States and Emotional Roles as Signals of Moral Character.-
Chapter 8. How You Cry, Why You Cry, and Who You Are: Responses to Adult Crying in Social Contexts.-
Chapter 9. Smiles are polysemic.-
Chapter 10. Can we use emotions to infer how powerful people are?.-

Part IV - What emotion expressions tell us about what the emotion eliciting situation.-

Chapter 11. Functions of Emotional Communication: The role of affective expressions in social interactions.-
Chapter 12. Are we tuned to threat detection? On the preferential processing of facial expressions of anger vs. happiness.- Chapter 13. Using facial expressions to deceive.-
Chapter 14. The use of emotions to infer norms and standards.-

Conclusion.

 

Ursula Hess is Professor of Psychology at the Humboldt-University, Berlin. She has published numerous articles in scientific journals as well as chapters in edited volumes. She is co-editor of a textbook on research methodology (Méthodes de recherche en psychologie, Gaëtan Morin, 2000) and author of a textbook on motivation and emotion (Motivation und Emotion, Kohlhammer, forthcoming). She has co-edited two book on emotion communication (Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression, Cambridge University Press, with Pierre Philippot, 2007; Emotional Mimicry in Social Context, Cambridge University Press, with Agneta Fischer, 2016).

Shlomo Hareli is a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Haifa. He has published numerous theoretical and empirical articles in scientific journals as well as chapters in edited volumes.