What are emotions? And how can they be measured?

By Klaus R. Scherer. 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Emotions and Formal Objects (2007, background): “Note that some philosophers and psychologists conceive emotions as complex states which combine, among other things, cognitive and reactive components (Scherer 2005).”
Regulation and socio-emotional interactions in a positive and a negative group climate (2018, background): “Emotions can be viewed as multi-componential entities made up of affective experiences or feelings, physiological responses, cognitive processes, behaviors or expressions, and/or action tendencies (Kleinginna and Kleinginna 1981; Scherer 2005; Solomon 2008).”
Defining Self-Awareness in the Context of Adult Development: A Systematic Literature Review (2021, background): “Feelings and emotions were grouped together as one subcomponent as emotion is an internal mental state from which feelings are generated, with feelings providing the description of an emotional mental state (Scherer, 2005).”
Theories of emotion causation: A review (2009, background): “Attitudes and preferences have been excluded from the class of emotions because they lack clear somatic and motor correlates (Lang, 1985; Scherer, 2005).”
The Nature and Dynamics of Relevance and Valence Appraisals: Theoretical Advances and Recent Evidence (2013, methodology): “Following a proposal to define the meaning of emotion words by differential profiles of features representing all components of emotion (Scherer, 2005), Fontaine, Scherer, and Soriano (in press) have conducted a massive cross-cultural study—the GRID study—in over 30 different countries with 25…”
What Do Systems Users Have to Fear? Using Fear Appeals to Engender Threats and Fear that Motivate Protective Security Behaviors (2015, methodology): “through established perceptual survey methods drawn from psychology and fear-appeals research, including self-reporting (Osman et al. 1994; Scherer 2005; Witte 1992).”
Touch-less interactive augmented reality game on vision-based wearable device (2015, methodology): “In the fourth stage, in order to assess the users’ emotions such as arousal and happiness based on the hand and foot interaction, the geneva emotion wheel (GEW) is applied [62].”
Presence in absence. The ambiguous phenomenology of grief (2018, background): “Therefore grief is not sufficiently described by the usual concept of emotion as a rather short-lived, intentional feeling episode (e.g. LeDoux 1996; Scherer 2005).”
Walking in each other's Shoes: Perspective Taking Mediates Effects of Emotional Intelligence on Relationship Quality (2011, background): “Social interactions and relationships are often accompanied and strongly influenced by emotions (Frijda, 1986; Scherer, 2005), which highlights their importance to most people (Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Denissen, Penke, Schmitt, & van Aken, 2008; Nezlek, Schütz, SchröderAbé, & Smith, in press).”
How Often Does Currently Felt Emotion Predict Social Behavior and Judgment? A Meta-Analytic Test of Two Theories (2016, neutral): “Indeed, some argue that “there are no objective methods of measuring the subjective experience of a person during an emotion episode” (Scherer, 2005, p. 712).”
Emotions are emergent processes: they require a dynamic computational architecture (2009, background): “Using these two terms synonymously has been, and continues to be, a major source of confusion and debate (Scherer 2005b; Deonna & Scherer in press).”
Furniture Forms and Their Influence on Our Emotional Responses Toward Interior Environments (2012, background): “Scherer (2005) also categorized emotions as utilitarian and aesthetic.”
The effects of emotions on football spectators' satisfaction and behavioural intentions (2012, background): “…researchers (Scherer, 2005; Vallerand & Blanchard, 2000), it is commonly accepted that an emotion is a response to a stimulus event (Deci, 1980; Scherer, 2005), and involves subjective experiences (cognitive component), physiological changes (arousal component) and action tendencies (e.g. body…”
Which emotions last longest and why: The role of event importance and rumination (2015, methodology): “Emotions were selected from the emotion categorization of Scherer (2005), appraisals were taken from the Geneva Appraisal Questionnaire (Scherer 2001), and the selection of regulation strategies was based on the process model of emotion regulation (Gross and Thompson 2007).”