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(1996): The representation of emotions in groups. The relative impact of social norms, positive–negative asymmetry and familiarity on the perception of emotions. In: European Journal of Social Psychology 26 (1), S. 43-59. DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0992(199601)26:1<43::AID-EJSP736>3.0.CO;2-6
Abstract: Research in several countries shows that people hold norms of emotion perception, so that socially desirable emotions are perceived as positive and moderate. Subjects also believe that positive and moderate emotions are dominant in their lives. Other research shows that increased familiarity with a social group allows a better differentiation among the members and the attributes of this group (e.g. wider variability of emotions). In the present study, we compare the relative impact of familiarity with pleasant and unpleasant groups and social norms on emotion perception. Subjects (N=150) were to rate imagined family groups, families that they did not know well, and families that they knew very well, on perceived differentiation and variability of emotional episodes, extremity of emotional events, and global family evaluations. Results indicated that familiarity is weakly associated with perceived emotional variability in target families, and that, regardless of their familiarity with the family, subjects viewed unpleasant families as more negative, as less familiar, and as having a larger range of emotions than pleasant families. Results are discussed in terms of the idea that perception of emotions in groups depends more strongly on social norms than either on positive–negative asymmetry or on direct experience with their members. Volume26, Issue1 January/February 1996 Pages 43-59 Figures References Related Information Metrics Details Copyright © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Publication History Issue Online: 04 December 1998
Keywords: Bekanntheitsgrad, Einfluss von sozialem Konsens / Anstand "Decorum", Emotionserkennung, familiarity, Gruppennorm, Kulturell codierte Merkmale, kulturelle Etiketten, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Normen der Wahrnehmung von Emotionen, Realtechnik, Soziale Erwünschtheit von Emotionen, Sozialer Wandel der Emotionalität, Sozialpsychologie, Technik, Werte 1994
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(1994): The behavioural cues of familiarity during social interactions among human adults. A review of the literature and some observations in normal and demented elderly subjects. In: Behavioural Processes 33 (1-2), S. 189-211. DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(94)90066-3
Abstract: The present paper deals with the non-verbal expression of individual recognition in normal and pathological populations. In the first part, the literature on non-verbal communication is surveyed with a selective attention given to observational studies comparing encounters between friends and between strangers in young adult subjects. To begin with, it is shown that in some cases external observers can discriminate above chance level silent films showing interactions between familiar and unfamiliar persons. Then, potential cues enabling such a performance are searched for by analysis of familiarity effects on interpersonal distance, touching gesture, visual and postural orientation, and facial or manual movements expressing affiliation or reticence. Finally, these observations are discussed in relation to several underlying processes: learning of interaction rules, involvement of an affiliative motivational system, and regulation of arousal. The problem of assessing the directionality of the familiarity effects is also raised. The second part of the paper addresses the issue of non-verbal expression of recognition in subjects who show impaired person recognition in the verbal modality. A pilot study compares the behaviour of older institutionalised women, either normal or suffering from senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type, during conversations with a member of the medical team and with another unfamiliar person. The methodological problems raised by the planning of the experimental situation are discussed.
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