Katie Hoemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 2013234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie Hoemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoemann |
| SIGNATURE | HOEMANN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9938-7676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Modeling the semantics of emotion: A culturally grounded approach to Flemish narratives
Expression of emotions through natural language is deeply embedded in culturally specific contexts and extends beyond simple lexical labels. A central difficulty lies in extracting structured semantic knowledge from unstructured daily narratives, a task particularly challenging for under-resourced language varieties such as Flemish (Belgian Dutch), which have historically received minimal computational attention. This study evaluates transformer-…
The Theory of Constructed Emotion: More Than a Feeling
A recently published article by van Heijst et al. attempted to reconcile two research approaches in the science of emotion—basic emotion theory and the theory of constructed emotion—by suggesting that the former explains emotions as bioregulatory states of the body whereas the latter explains feelings that arise from those state changes. This bifurcation of emotion into objective physical states and subjective feelings involves three misleading s…
Context matters: Emotional fit of immigrant-origin adolescents and its implications for their well-being
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza
Emotions are often thought of as internal mental states centering on individuals’ subjective feelings and evaluations. This understanding is consistent with studies of emotion narratives, or the descriptions people give for experienced events that they regard as emotions. Yet these studies, and contemporary psychology more generally, often rely on observations of educated Europeans and European Americans, constraining psychological theory and met…
A theory-informed emotion regulation variability index: Bray–Curtis dissimilarity
Emotion regulation (ER) variability refers to how individuals vary their use of ER strategies across time. It helps individuals to meet contextual needs, underscoring its importance in well-being. The theoretical foundation of ER variability recognizes two constituent processes: strategy switching (e.g., moving from distraction to social sharing) and endorsement change (e.g., decreasing the intensity of both distraction and social sharing). ER va…
The composition of friendship networks predicts emotional fit among Turkish Belgian adolescents
Having more majority than minority friends positively relates to emotional fit with the majority culture without negatively affecting their fit with the minority culture. These findings further support the idea that cultural emotion norms can both shape or be shaped by close relationships, particularly with friends during adolescence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Expertise in emotion: A scoping review and unifying framework for individual differences in the mental representation of emotional experience
Expertise refers to outstanding skill or ability in a particular domain. In the domain of emotion, expertise refers to the observation that some people are better at a range of competencies related to understanding and experiencing emotions, and these competencies may help them lead healthier lives. These individual differences are represented by multiple constructs including emotional awareness, emotional clarity, emotional complexity, emotional…
Introducing a Face Sort Paradigm to Evaluate Age Differences in Emotion Perception
These findings partially support the hypothesis that older adults' concepts for emotions and emotional expressions are more complex than those of young adults, demonstrate the utility of incorporating less constrained experimental methods into the investigation of age-related differences in emotion perception, and are consistent with existing evidence of increased cognitive and emotional complexity in adulthood
Words are a context for mental inference
Accumulating evidence indicates that context has an important impact on inferring emotion in facial configurations. In this paper, we report on three studies examining whether words referring to mental states contribute to mental inference in images from the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Study 1), Baron-Cohen et al. (2001) in static emoji (Study 2), and in animated emoji (Study 3). Across all three studies, we predicted and found that percei…
Emotion words, emotion concepts, and emotional development in children: A constructionist hypothesis
In this article, we integrate two constructionist approaches-the theory of constructed emotion and rational constructivism-to introduce several novel hypotheses for understanding emotional development. We first discuss the hypothesis that emotion categories are abstract and conceptual, whose instances share a goal-based function in a particular context but are highly variable in their affective, physical, and perceptual features. Next, we discuss…
Context facilitates performance on a classic cross-cultural emotion perception task
The majority of studies designed to assess cross-cultural emotion perception use a choice-from-array task in which participants are presented with brief emotion stories and asked to choose between target and foil cues. This task has been widely criticized, evoking a lively and prolonged debate about whether it inadvertently helps participants to perform better than they otherwise would, resulting in the appearance of universality. In 3 studies, w…
Emotion words, emotion concepts, and emotional development in children: A constructionist hypothesis
In this article, we integrate two constructionist approaches-the theory of constructed emotion and rational constructivism-to introduce several novel hypotheses for understanding emotional development. We first discuss the hypothesis that emotion categories are abstract and conceptual, whose instances share a goal-based function in a particular context but are highly variable in their affective, physical, and perceptual features. Next, we discuss…
Introducing a Face Sort Paradigm to Evaluate Age Differences in Emotion Perception
These findings partially support the hypothesis that older adults' concepts for emotions and emotional expressions are more complex than those of young adults, demonstrate the utility of incorporating less constrained experimental methods into the investigation of age-related differences in emotion perception, and are consistent with existing evidence of increased cognitive and emotional complexity in adulthood
Context facilitates performance on a classic cross-cultural emotion perception task
The majority of studies designed to assess cross-cultural emotion perception use a choice-from-array task in which participants are presented with brief emotion stories and asked to choose between target and foil cues. This task has been widely criticized, evoking a lively and prolonged debate about whether it inadvertently helps participants to perform better than they otherwise would, resulting in the appearance of universality. In 3 studies, w…
Words are a context for mental inference
Accumulating evidence indicates that context has an important impact on inferring emotion in facial configurations. In this paper, we report on three studies examining whether words referring to mental states contribute to mental inference in images from the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Study 1), Baron-Cohen et al. (2001) in static emoji (Study 2), and in animated emoji (Study 3). Across all three studies, we predicted and found that percei…
Emotion words, emotion concepts, and emotional development in children: A constructionist hypothesis
In this article, we integrate two constructionist approaches-the theory of constructed emotion and rational constructivism-to introduce several novel hypotheses for understanding emotional development. We first discuss the hypothesis that emotion categories are abstract and conceptual, whose instances share a goal-based function in a particular context but are highly variable in their affective, physical, and perceptual features. Next, we discuss…
Introducing a Face Sort Paradigm to Evaluate Age Differences in Emotion Perception
These findings partially support the hypothesis that older adults' concepts for emotions and emotional expressions are more complex than those of young adults, demonstrate the utility of incorporating less constrained experimental methods into the investigation of age-related differences in emotion perception, and are consistent with existing evidence of increased cognitive and emotional complexity in adulthood
Expertise in emotion: A scoping review and unifying framework for individual differences in the mental representation of emotional experience
Expertise refers to outstanding skill or ability in a particular domain. In the domain of emotion, expertise refers to the observation that some people are better at a range of competencies related to understanding and experiencing emotions, and these competencies may help them lead healthier lives. These individual differences are represented by multiple constructs including emotional awareness, emotional clarity, emotional complexity, emotional…
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza
Emotions are often thought of as internal mental states centering on individuals’ subjective feelings and evaluations. This understanding is consistent with studies of emotion narratives, or the descriptions people give for experienced events that they regard as emotions. Yet these studies, and contemporary psychology more generally, often rely on observations of educated Europeans and European Americans, constraining psychological theory and met…
A theory-informed emotion regulation variability index: Bray–Curtis dissimilarity
Emotion regulation (ER) variability refers to how individuals vary their use of ER strategies across time. It helps individuals to meet contextual needs, underscoring its importance in well-being. The theoretical foundation of ER variability recognizes two constituent processes: strategy switching (e.g., moving from distraction to social sharing) and endorsement change (e.g., decreasing the intensity of both distraction and social sharing). ER va…
The composition of friendship networks predicts emotional fit among Turkish Belgian adolescents
Having more majority than minority friends positively relates to emotional fit with the majority culture without negatively affecting their fit with the minority culture. These findings further support the idea that cultural emotion norms can both shape or be shaped by close relationships, particularly with friends during adolescence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
The Theory of Constructed Emotion: More Than a Feeling
A recently published article by van Heijst et al. attempted to reconcile two research approaches in the science of emotion—basic emotion theory and the theory of constructed emotion—by suggesting that the former explains emotions as bioregulatory states of the body whereas the latter explains feelings that arise from those state changes. This bifurcation of emotion into objective physical states and subjective feelings involves three misleading s…
Context matters: Emotional fit of immigrant-origin adolescents and its implications for their well-being
Modeling the semantics of emotion: A culturally grounded approach to Flemish narratives
Expression of emotions through natural language is deeply embedded in culturally specific contexts and extends beyond simple lexical labels. A central difficulty lies in extracting structured semantic knowledge from unstructured daily narratives, a task particularly challenging for under-resourced language varieties such as Flemish (Belgian Dutch), which have historically received minimal computational attention. This study evaluates transformer-…
Psychology (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · PsycINFO (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)