Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression
Published on 30. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-0-521-17939-3 (ISBN)
Description
The study of emotional expressions has a long tradition in psychology. Although research in this domain has extensively studied the social context factors that influence the expresser's facial display, the perceiver was considered passive. This 2007 book focuses on more recent developments that show that the perceiver is also subject to the same social rules and norms that guide the expresser's behavior and that knowledge of relevant emotion norms can influence how emotional expressions shown by members of different groups are perceived and interpreted. Factors such as ethnic-group membership, gender and relative status all influence not only emotional expressions but also the interpretation of emotional expressions shown by members of different groups. Specifically, the research presented asks the question of whether and why the same expressions shown by men or women, members of different ethnic groups, or individuals high and low in status are interpreted differently.
Reviews / Votes
'The book covers 35 years of research quite well ... This collection will be of interest to social psychologists and their students, as well as to those just interested in better understanding the emotions shown by others.' Richard Evenson, PsycCritiquesMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
349 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-17939-3 (9780521179393)
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Ursula Hess | Pierre Philippot
Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression
E-Book
04/2007
1st Edition
Cambridge University Press
€30.99
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Persons
Ursula Hess is Professor of Psychology at the Humboldt University, Berlin. She received her PhD in psychology from Dartmouth College and is a Fellow at the Association for Psychological Science. Her current research is in the area of emotion psychology - in particular, the communication of affect with an emphasis on two main lines of research: psychophysiological measures and the role of social influences in the encoding and decoding of emotional expressions. Pierre Philippot is Professor of Psychology at the University of Louvain in Belgium. He is also a Master of Research at the Belgium National Science Foundation. He received his PhD in psychology from the University of Louvain. He has published many books and written many articles for international, peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Content
Introduction Pierre Philippot and Ursula Hess; 1. Implications of ingroup-outgroup membership for interpersonal perceptions: faces and emotion Jennifer Richeson, John F. Dovidio, J. Nicole Shelton and Michelle Hebl; 2. When two do the same, it might not mean the same: the perception of emotional expressions shown by men and women Ursula Hess, Reginald B. Adams, Jr and Robert E. Kleck; 3. It takes one to know one better: controversy about the cultural ingroup advantage in communicating emotion as a theoretical rather than methodological issue Hillary Anger Elfenbein; 4. Beauty is in the eyes of the perceiver: the impact of affective stereotyping on the perception of outgroup members' facial expressions Pierre Philippot, Yanelia Yabar and Patrick Bourgeois; 5. The perception of crying in women and men: angry tears, sad tears, and the 'right way' to cry Leah R. Warner and Stephanie A. Shields; 6. Tell me a story: emotional responses to emotional expression during leader 'storytelling' Kristi Lewis Tyran; 7. Apples and oranges: methodological requirements for testing a possible ingroup advantage in emotion judgments from facial expressions David Matsumoto; 8. Others' faces' tales: an integration Ursula Hess and Pierre Philippot.