Ursula Hess (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Pierre Philippot (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
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 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,...
The study of emotional expressions has a long tradition in psychology. Although research in this domain has extensively studied the social context fac...