Klaus R Scherer

Datos Biográficos

ID115074
NOMBREKlaus R Scherer
NOMBRESKlaus R
APELLIDOScherer
FIRMASCHERER K R
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Geneva
ORCID0000-0001-9526-0144
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS110
TOTAL DE CITAS807
TOTAL COMO AUTOR106
TOTAL COMO EDITOR4
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1972
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H14

  • Emotion word meaning and grammatical class

    Open AccessCarmen Soriano, Cristina Soriano et al.ARTICLELanguage Sciences2026

    In the study of emotion across disciplines emotion labels such as ‘ anger’ , ‘ fear’ or ‘ joy’ are frequently used in experiments as stimuli or as response prompts. Both nouns (e.g., ‘ anger’ ) and adjectives (e.g., ‘ angry’ ) are used indistinctly, assumed to mean the same. However, grammatical class has been claimed to carry meaning, with nouns construing entities as “things” and adjectives as “qualities”. This could influence the way emotional…

  • Comparing animal and human emotions – how theory can help (and which one to choose)

    Klaus R Scherer, Klaus RothermundARTICLECognition & Emotion2025Referencias: 10

  • Emotion processes in social and political contexts

    Klaus R SchererARTICLECognition & Emotion2024

    covering both negative and positive aspects, as the most promising candidate. Finally, I consider the potential role of mixed or blended emotions as well as the potential contributions of appraisal theory, especially with respect to appraisal bias and ensuing emotion dispositions and action tendencies

  • Emotion processes and perceptual control of action choice

    Klaus R SchererARTICLECognition & Emotion2023

  • Emotion regulation via reappraisal – mechanisms and strategies

    Klaus R SchererARTICLECognition & Emotion2023

  • The mystery of emotional mimicry

    Klaus R SchererARTICLECognition & Emotion2022

  • Emotions, social coordination, and the danger of affective polarisation

    Klaus R SchererARTICLECognition & Emotion2022

  • Theories in cognition & emotion – social functions of emotion

    Klaus R SchererARTICLECognition & Emotion2022

    It is widely recognised that emotions have important social functions, particularly with respect to the interaction between individual needs and preferences and socio-cultural norms and values. So far, however, a general theoretical framework has been missing for the social functions of emotion. In this issue of the special theory section of Cognition & Emotion, an invited article by Keltner et al. proposes an expanded version of social functiona…

  • Theory convergence in emotion science is timely and realistic

    Klaus R SchererARTICLECognition & Emotion2022

    Over the last century, emotion research has been beset by the problem of major disagreements with respect to the definition of the phenomenon and an abundance of different theories. Arguably, these divergences have had adverse effects on theory development, on the theoretical foundations of empirical research, and on knowledge accumulation in the study of emotion. Similar problems have been encountered in other areas of behavioural science. Incre…

  • Linear and non-linear relationships among the dimensions representing the cognitive structure of emotion

    Johnny R J Fontaine, Christelle Gillioz et al.ARTICLECognition & Emotion2022

    While dimensional models play a key role in emotion psychology, no consensus has been reached about their number and nature. The current study sheds a new light on this central issue by examining linear and non-linear relationships among the dimensions in the cognitive emotion structure. The meaning of 80 emotion terms was evaluated on 68 features representing appraisals, action tendencies, bodily reactions, expressions, and subjective experience…

  • Learned helplessness revisited

    Klaus R SchererARTICLECognition & Emotion2022

    produced by pervasive experiences of failure or negative events, leading to decreased motivation and risk for depression. In their target article, Boddez, van Dessel, and de Houwer apply this concept to different forms of psychological suffering and propose a goal-directed mechanism -generalisation over similar goals. Duda and Joormann define goal similarity by action-outcome contingencies and highlight individual differences in attribution style…

  • Investigating individual differences in emotion recognition ability using the Eram test

    Open AccessPetri Laukka, Tanja Bänziger et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2021

    Individuals vary in emotion recognition ability (ERA), but the causes and correlates of this variability are not well understood. Previous studies have largely focused on unimodal facial or vocal expressions and a small number of emotion categories, which may not reflect how emotions are expressed in everyday interactions. We investigated individual differences in ERA using a brief test containing dynamic multimodal (facial and vocal) expressions…

  • The rise of affectivism

    Open AccessDaniel Dukes, Kathryn Abrams et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Citada por: 8Referencias: 9

  • Are concepts of achievement-related emotions universal across cultures? A semantic profiling approach

    Kristina Stockinger, Kristina Loderer et al.ARTICLECognition & Emotion2020

    Verifying that conceptualisations of emotions are consistent across languages and cultures is a critical precondition for meaningful cross-cultural research on emotional experience. For achievement-related emotions tied to successes or failures, such evidence is virtually non-existent. To address this gap, we compared Canadian, German, Colombian, and Chinese university students’ (NTotal = 126) perceptions of affective, cognitive, motivational, ph…

  • Evidence for the existence of emotion dispositions and the effects of appraisal bias

    Klaus R SchererARTICLEEmotion2020

    The concept of emotion disposition is proposed as an important dimension of individual differences. It refers to a stable tendency to experience certain emotions more or less frequently or intensely for similar classes of situations or events in daily experience than the majority of other people. In contrast to classic "trait affect" traditions, the theoretical framework described here proposes a specific mechanism based on the notion of appraisa…

  • The Emotion Process

    Klaus R Scherer, A MoorsARTICLEAnnual Review of Psychology2019

    Much emotion research has focused on the end result of the emotion process, categorical emotions, as reported by the protagonist or diagnosed by the researcher, with the aim of differentiating these discrete states. In contrast, this review concentrates on the emotion process itself by examining how ( a) elicitation, or the appraisal of events, leads to ( b) differentiation, in particular, action tendencies accompanied by physiological responses …

  • Investigating appraisal-driven facial expression and inference in emotion communication

    Klaus R Scherer, Anja Dieckmann et al.ARTICLEEmotion2019

    Theory and research on emotion expression, both on production and recognition, has been dominated by a categorical emotion approach suggesting that discrete emotions are elicited and expressed via prototypical facial muscle configurations that can then be recognized by observers, presumably via template matching. This tradition is increasingly challenged by alternative theoretical approaches. In particular, appraisal theorists have suggested that…

  • Interaction and threshold effects of appraisal on componential patterns of emotion

    Ben Meuleman, A Moors et al.ARTICLEEmotion2018

    Studies that investigated the relation between appraisal and emotion have largely focused on the linear effect of appraisal criteria on subjective feelings (e.g., the effect of appraised goal obstruction on anger). Emotional responding can be extended to include more than just feelings, however. Componential definitions of emotion also add motivation, physiology, and expression. Moreover, a linear model is not compatible with the idea held by man…

  • Sense and sensibility

    Open AccessKatja Schlegel, Marc Méhu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2018Citada por: 4Referencias: 35

  • Appraisal-driven facial actions as building blocks for emotion inference

    Klaus R Scherer, Marcello Mortillaro et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 3

    Although research on facial emotion recognition abounds, there has been little attention on the nature of the underlying mechanisms. In this article, using a "reverse engineering" approach, we suggest that emotion inference from facial expression mirrors the expression process. As a strong case can be made for an appraisal theory account of emotional expression, which holds that appraisal results directly determine the nature of facial muscle act…

  • Measuring aesthetic emotions

    Open AccessInes Schindler, Georg Hosoya et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2017

    Aesthetic perception and judgement are not merely cognitive processes, but also involve feelings. Therefore, the empirical study of these experiences requires conceptualization and measurement of aesthetic emotions. Despite the long-standing interest in such emotions, we still lack an assessment tool to capture the broad range of emotions that occur in response to the perceived aesthetic appeal of stimuli. Elicitors of aesthetic emotions are not …

  • Emotions, Psychological Structure of

    Open AccessVera Shuman, Klaus R SchererCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Emotion categories and dimensions in the facial communication of affect

    Marc Méhu, Klaus R SchererARTICLEEmotion2015

    We investigated the role of facial behavior in emotional communication, using both categorical and dimensional approaches. We used a corpus of enacted emotional expressions (GEMEP) in which professional actors are instructed, with the help of scenarios, to communicate a variety of emotional experiences. The results of Study 1 replicated earlier findings showing that only a minority of facial action units are associated with specific emotional cat…

  • Les émotions

    Klaus R Scherer

    L'article s'attache tout d'abord a souligner l'importance qu'il y a pour la psychologie cognitive contemporaine a etendre ses preoccupations a l'etude des emotions. On montre que, dans les organismes capables d'emotions, l'adaptabilite du comportement au milieu est accrue par l'introduction d'un decouplage entre la reaction comportementale et la reception des stimuli

  • Nonverbale Kommunikation

    Klaus R Scherer, Harald G Wallbott