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Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression

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 isalso 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 emotionalexpressions 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. Ursula Hess is Professor of Psychology at the University of Quebec at Montreal. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from Dartmouth Collegeand 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 ofLouvain in Belgium. He is also a Master of Research at the Belgium National Science Foundation. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Louvain. He has published many books and written many articles for international, peer-reviewed scientific journals.

STUDIES IN EMOTION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION Second Series
Series Editors Keith Oatley University of Toronto Antony S. R. MansteadUniversity of Cambridge

This series is jointly published by Cambridge University Press and the Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, as part of the joint publishing agreement established in 1977 between the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the Syndics of Cambridge University Press. Cette publication est publi´ e en co-´ dition par Cambridge University e e Press etles Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. Elle s’int` gre e dans le programme de co-´ dition etabli en 1977 par la Fondation de la e ´ Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et les Syndics de Cambridge University Press. Titles published in the Second Series: The Psychology of Facial Expression, by James A. Russell and Jos´ Miguel Fern´ ndez-Dols e a Emotion, the Social Bond, and Human Reality:Part/Whole Analysis, by Thomas J. Scheff Intersubjective Communication and Emotion in Early Ontogeny, by Stein Br˚ ten a The Social Context of Nonverbal Behavior, by Pierre Philippot, Roberts S. Feldman, and Erik J. Coats Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes, by Sally Planalp

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Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression
Edited by UrsulaHess
University of Quebec at Montreal

Pierre Philippot
University of Louvain, Belgium

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