The Social Effects of Emotions

Kleef, Gerben A. van; Côté, Stéphane

doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-010855

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“…Despite the knowledge gained from the current collection of studies, there are several potential avenues for future research. While we focus on emotional and behavioral responses to genuine versus deceptive expressers, cognitive operations are likely also at play, as predicted by the emotions as social information model (EASI; Van Kleef, 2009 ; Van Kleef & Côté, 2021 ). For example, although our participants were generally not suspicious about the presence of deception, research suggests that distrust can serve as a boundary condition for the effects of emotion on observer responses (e.g., Kim et al, 2017 ; Van Kleef et al, 2006 ).…”

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Interpersonal Consequences of Deceptive Expressions of Sadness

Gunderson

Baker

Pence

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Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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Emotional expressions evoke predictable responses from observers; displays of sadness are commonly met with sympathy and help from others. Accordingly, people may be motivated to feign emotions to elicit a desired response. In the absence of suspicion, we predicted that emotional and behavioral responses to genuine (vs. deceptive) expressers would be guided by empirically valid cues of sadness authenticity. Consistent with this hypothesis, untrained observers (total N = 1,300) reported less sympathy and offered less help to deceptive (vs. genuine) expressers of sadness. This effect was replicated using both posed, low-stakes, laboratory-created stimuli, and spontaneous, real, high-stakes emotional appeals to the public. Furthermore, lens models suggest that sympathy reactions were guided by difficult-to-fake facial actions associated with sadness. Results suggest that naive observers use empirically valid cues to deception to coordinate social interactions, providing novel evidence that people are sensitive to subtle cues to deception.

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Interpersonal Consequences of Deceptive Expressions of Sadness

Gunderson

Baker

Pence

et al. 2021

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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“…First, observers can derive information from people’s facial expressions. Observers have affective reactions to facial expressions or infer a target’s personal and situational characteristics from them (Lange et al, 2021; Van Kleef & Côté, in press). Moreover, observers use facial expressions to infer the underlying appraisal of the target (Scherer & Grandjean, 2008) and draw conclusions about the target’s motivation (Hareli & Hess, 2010).…”

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“You’re just envious”: Inferring benign and malicious envy from facial expressions and contextual information.

Lange¹,

Fischer²,

Kleef³

2022

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We have no known conflicts of interest. We report all studies we ever conducted in this line of research. We report how we determined our sample size, all data exclusions (if any), all manipulations, and all measures in the study. The anonymized data, analysis scripts, and materials are available on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/n9uvj/). All studies were preregistered (see https://aspredicted.org/3tq2y.pdf, https://aspredicted.org/i9vw6.pdf, https://aspredicted.org/ej26f.pdf). The research reported in this article was supported by grants from the German Research foundation (DFG) awarded to Jens Lange (LA 4029/1-1, LA 4029/2-1). We thank the members of the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam for valuable feedback. We also thank Sami Paul Chakkour, Niklas Koch, Franziska Thomiczny, and Johanna Woitzel for serving as actors in Study 3.

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“…Selected Core Readings: (Ekman, 1992;Scherer, 1987;Scherer, 2005;van Kleef & Côté, 2022;Moors et al, 2021;Smith & Kirby, 2001).…”

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Evaluating the Status of Theories of Emotion in Political Science and Psychology

Marcus

2022

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Emotion is an increasing influential area of research in psychology, political psychology, political science and other social sciences. Research is best when driven by theory because the absence of theory generates research that is subject to vagaries of meaning, interpretation, and lack of coherence, study to study. In brief, theory provides essential foundations that enable scientific explanations to be rigorously tested. As I demonstrate below, absence of, or reliance on, incomplete theories have generated results that are demonstrably flawed. I evaluate the extent to which current emotion research programs rely on a full blown theory. The programs under consideration, in alphabetical order, are: appraisal theories in psychology and political science; emotion regulation; and, valence based accounts. After a brief overview of the elements, individually and collectively, that constitute a theory of emotion. I find this worthy ambition awaits fulfillment.

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The Social Effects of Emotions

Cited by 183 publications

References 171 publications

Interpersonal Consequences of Deceptive Expressions of Sadness

Interpersonal Consequences of Deceptive Expressions of Sadness

“You’re just envious”: Inferring benign and malicious envy from facial expressions and contextual information.

Evaluating the Status of Theories of Emotion in Political Science and Psychology

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