Understanding another person’s emotions

  • An interdisciplinary research perspective is developed concerning the question of how we understand others’ emotions and how reliable our judgment about others’ emotion can be. After an outline of the theoretical background of emotions, we briefly discuss the importance of prior experiences and context information for the recognition of emotions. To clarify this role, we describe a study design, utilizing emotional expressions and context information while controlling for prior experiences and the actual emotional situation to systematically approach these questions.

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Author:Georg JuckelORCiDGND, Christine HeinischGND, Anna WelpinghusGND, Martin BrüneORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-64027
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00414
Parent Title (English):Frontiers in psychiatry
Subtitle (English):an interdisciplinary research approach
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2019/05/02
Date of first Publication:2018/09/06
Publishing Institution:Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek
Tag:Open Access Fonds
emotion; emotion recognition; expression of emotions; interaction theory; social context
Volume:9
First Page:414-1
Last Page:414-7
Note:
Frontiers in psychiatry, Bd. 9, Artikelnummer 414
Note:
Article Processing Charge funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Institutes/Facilities:LWL-Universitätsklinikum Bochum, Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Präventivmedizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:Philosophie und Psychologie / Psychologie
open_access (DINI-Set):open_access
faculties:Medizinische Fakultät
Licence (English):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International