David Sander
Biographic Data
| ID | 6221401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Sander |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Sander |
| SIGNATURE | SANDER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What do teachers think about students’ emotions? A mixed-method exploration of their implicit theories
Emotions play a central role in educational settings, influencing both students’ engagement and teachers’ instructional practices. Despite growing recognition of the importance of emotion in education, little is known so far about how preservice teachers conceptualize emotions in students and how this may shape their pedagogical choices. This mixed-method study explored the beliefs of 292 Belgian and Swiss teachers in training about students' emo…
Place-related representations in setting the stage for empathy
What makes people experience varying degrees of empathy? Common accounts emphasize interpersonal attributes, including victims' group membership or social proximity to observers. Here we elucidate a distinct process: imagining the scenes surrounding victims. Although imagination has been shown to moderate empathy, the relative importance of its representational components is unknown. Using fMRI (N = 48), we identified activation maps preferential…
Trial-by-trial learning signatures in self-reported affect that require introspection and are orthogonal to social choice
Do people learn to predict their feelings over time, and do such learning signatures manifest in behavior? Feeling ratings track with what we do. Understanding their properties may thus elucidate behavior. Inspired by reinforcement learning, differences between expected and experienced feelings-affective prediction errors-have recently entered the toolkit of behavioral prediction. But the extent of the analogy between affective prediction errors …
Play and Games
This chapter examines the mechanisms through which play may contribute to emotional development. First, the authors discuss different types of play that can be identified across developmental stages. Second, the chapter focuses on the emotional benefits of play and its potential role as a protective factor against the manifestation of psychopathologies. Next, it specifically refers to the experience of positive emotions and to emotion regulation,…
The cross-modal transfer of emotional information from voices to faces in 5-, 8- and 10-year-old children and adults
The present study examined the evolution of emotional cross-modal transfer throughout childhood compared to adulthood, using an experimental design first used with infants. We studied whether verbal children spontaneously look at emotional faces differently depending on the emotional voices previously heard, demonstrating a real intrinsic understanding of the emotion. Thus, sequences of emotional (happy vs. angry) cross-modal transfer were indivi…
Effects of hunger on emotional arousal responses and attention/memory biases
In this study, we examined how emotional arousal interacts with hunger states and the processing of food stimuli. In general, arousal enhances the processing of high-priority information at the expense of lower priority information (Mather & Sutherland, 2011). Because food has been a biologically relevant stimulus in primates throughout evolution, detecting it in the environment and remembering its location has high priority. In our study, induci…
When symbolism overtakes quality
Attentional bias for positive emotional stimuli
Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The present meta-analysis systematically compared attentional bias for positive compared with neutral visual stimuli across 243 studies (N = 9,120 healthy participants) that used different types of attentional paradigms and positive stimuli. Factors were tested that, as postul…
Handbook of Value
Ever since the days of Plato scholars have been trying to understand value. What is value? Where does it come from? How does it impact our emotions, motivations, choices, and experiences? Value is involved in practically every aspect of human life: whether we choose between consumer goods, whether we decide whom to marry or which political candidate to elect, whether we ask ourselves what is morally right, or beautiful, or sacred, value plays a c…
Human amygdala response to dynamic facial expressions of positive and negative surprise
Although brain imaging evidence accumulates to suggest that the amygdala plays a key role in the processing of novel stimuli, only little is known about its role in processing expressed novelty conveyed by surprised faces, and even less about possible interactive encoding of novelty and valence. Those investigations that have already probed human amygdala involvement in the processing of surprised facial expressions either used static pictures di…
Social appraisal influences recognition of emotions
The notion of social appraisal emphasizes the importance of a social dimension in appraisal theories of emotion by proposing that the way an individual appraises an event is influenced by the way other individuals appraise and feel about the same event. This study directly tested this proposal by asking participants to recognize dynamic facial expressions of emotion (fear, happiness, or anger in Experiment 1; fear, happiness, anger, or neutral in…
Influence of adult attachment style on the perception of social and non-social emotional scenes
Attachment theory describes how people emotionally bond with others, utilize their social interactions to regulate affective needs, and how they differ in their attachment style. However, it remains unknown whether anxious or avoidant attachment is linked to more general differences in emotional processing for negative and positive stimuli, and whether such differences depend on stimulus content. Here we tested how social or non-social positive o…
Affective dimensions of odor perception
Do affective responses to odors vary as a function of culture? To address this question, we developed two self-report scales in the United Kingdom (Liverpool: LEOS) and in Singapore (city of Singapore: SEOS), following the same procedure as used in the past to develop the Geneva Emotion and Odor Scale (GEOS: Chrea, Grandjean, Delplanque et al., 2009). The final scales were obtained by a three-step reduction of an initial pool of 480 affective ter…
Conscious emotional experience emerges as a function of multilevel, appraisal-driven response synchronization
Attentional bias for positive emotional stimuli
Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The present meta-analysis systematically compared attentional bias for positive compared with neutral visual stimuli across 243 studies (N = 9,120 healthy participants) that used different types of attentional paradigms and positive stimuli. Factors were tested that, as postul…
Handbook of Value
Ever since the days of Plato scholars have been trying to understand value. What is value? Where does it come from? How does it impact our emotions, motivations, choices, and experiences? Value is involved in practically every aspect of human life: whether we choose between consumer goods, whether we decide whom to marry or which political candidate to elect, whether we ask ourselves what is morally right, or beautiful, or sacred, value plays a c…
Influence of adult attachment style on the perception of social and non-social emotional scenes
Attachment theory describes how people emotionally bond with others, utilize their social interactions to regulate affective needs, and how they differ in their attachment style. However, it remains unknown whether anxious or avoidant attachment is linked to more general differences in emotional processing for negative and positive stimuli, and whether such differences depend on stimulus content. Here we tested how social or non-social positive o…
Social appraisal influences recognition of emotions
The notion of social appraisal emphasizes the importance of a social dimension in appraisal theories of emotion by proposing that the way an individual appraises an event is influenced by the way other individuals appraise and feel about the same event. This study directly tested this proposal by asking participants to recognize dynamic facial expressions of emotion (fear, happiness, or anger in Experiment 1; fear, happiness, anger, or neutral in…
Conscious emotional experience emerges as a function of multilevel, appraisal-driven response synchronization
Affective dimensions of odor perception
Do affective responses to odors vary as a function of culture? To address this question, we developed two self-report scales in the United Kingdom (Liverpool: LEOS) and in Singapore (city of Singapore: SEOS), following the same procedure as used in the past to develop the Geneva Emotion and Odor Scale (GEOS: Chrea, Grandjean, Delplanque et al., 2009). The final scales were obtained by a three-step reduction of an initial pool of 480 affective ter…
Social appraisal influences recognition of emotions
The notion of social appraisal emphasizes the importance of a social dimension in appraisal theories of emotion by proposing that the way an individual appraises an event is influenced by the way other individuals appraise and feel about the same event. This study directly tested this proposal by asking participants to recognize dynamic facial expressions of emotion (fear, happiness, or anger in Experiment 1; fear, happiness, anger, or neutral in…
Influence of adult attachment style on the perception of social and non-social emotional scenes
Attachment theory describes how people emotionally bond with others, utilize their social interactions to regulate affective needs, and how they differ in their attachment style. However, it remains unknown whether anxious or avoidant attachment is linked to more general differences in emotional processing for negative and positive stimuli, and whether such differences depend on stimulus content. Here we tested how social or non-social positive o…
Human amygdala response to dynamic facial expressions of positive and negative surprise
Although brain imaging evidence accumulates to suggest that the amygdala plays a key role in the processing of novel stimuli, only little is known about its role in processing expressed novelty conveyed by surprised faces, and even less about possible interactive encoding of novelty and valence. Those investigations that have already probed human amygdala involvement in the processing of surprised facial expressions either used static pictures di…
Handbook of Value
Ever since the days of Plato scholars have been trying to understand value. What is value? Where does it come from? How does it impact our emotions, motivations, choices, and experiences? Value is involved in practically every aspect of human life: whether we choose between consumer goods, whether we decide whom to marry or which political candidate to elect, whether we ask ourselves what is morally right, or beautiful, or sacred, value plays a c…
Attentional bias for positive emotional stimuli
Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The present meta-analysis systematically compared attentional bias for positive compared with neutral visual stimuli across 243 studies (N = 9,120 healthy participants) that used different types of attentional paradigms and positive stimuli. Factors were tested that, as postul…
When symbolism overtakes quality
Effects of hunger on emotional arousal responses and attention/memory biases
In this study, we examined how emotional arousal interacts with hunger states and the processing of food stimuli. In general, arousal enhances the processing of high-priority information at the expense of lower priority information (Mather & Sutherland, 2011). Because food has been a biologically relevant stimulus in primates throughout evolution, detecting it in the environment and remembering its location has high priority. In our study, induci…
The cross-modal transfer of emotional information from voices to faces in 5-, 8- and 10-year-old children and adults
The present study examined the evolution of emotional cross-modal transfer throughout childhood compared to adulthood, using an experimental design first used with infants. We studied whether verbal children spontaneously look at emotional faces differently depending on the emotional voices previously heard, demonstrating a real intrinsic understanding of the emotion. Thus, sequences of emotional (happy vs. angry) cross-modal transfer were indivi…
Play and Games
This chapter examines the mechanisms through which play may contribute to emotional development. First, the authors discuss different types of play that can be identified across developmental stages. Second, the chapter focuses on the emotional benefits of play and its potential role as a protective factor against the manifestation of psychopathologies. Next, it specifically refers to the experience of positive emotions and to emotion regulation,…
Trial-by-trial learning signatures in self-reported affect that require introspection and are orthogonal to social choice
Do people learn to predict their feelings over time, and do such learning signatures manifest in behavior? Feeling ratings track with what we do. Understanding their properties may thus elucidate behavior. Inspired by reinforcement learning, differences between expected and experienced feelings-affective prediction errors-have recently entered the toolkit of behavioral prediction. But the extent of the analogy between affective prediction errors …
What do teachers think about students’ emotions? A mixed-method exploration of their implicit theories
Emotions play a central role in educational settings, influencing both students’ engagement and teachers’ instructional practices. Despite growing recognition of the importance of emotion in education, little is known so far about how preservice teachers conceptualize emotions in students and how this may shape their pedagogical choices. This mixed-method study explored the beliefs of 292 Belgian and Swiss teachers in training about students' emo…
Place-related representations in setting the stage for empathy
What makes people experience varying degrees of empathy? Common accounts emphasize interpersonal attributes, including victims' group membership or social proximity to observers. Here we elucidate a distinct process: imagining the scenes surrounding victims. Although imagination has been shown to moderate empathy, the relative importance of its representational components is unknown. Using fMRI (N = 48), we identified activation maps preferential…
Psychology (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Feeling (4 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (4 works) · Affect (linguistics (3 works)