Research
We conduct research on the representation and the function of emotion. Work on representation attempts to apply recent theories of embodied cognition to the modeling of the processing of emotional information. Research in this area explores two major hypotheses. One is that the use of emotion concepts involves partial reexperience of the state. This work explores the possibility that the core grounding of emotion knowledge is the representations of the sensory-motor states that occurred during actual emotional experiences. A second major hypothesis is that imitation is a basic mechanism in the implicit and explicit processing of facial expression of emotion, and of other social information. Research on the function of emotion addresses in particular the so-called moral emotions (of shame and guilt) and their role, in contrast to the emotion of anger, in assuring adherence to social norms. In this vein, other work explores the relationship between social power and emotion, and the ways in which the expression of certain emotions and the elicitation of certain emotions in others function to maintain social structures. In all of our research, we adopt a cross-cultural perspective.
Friends, visitors, and associates at Université Blaise Pascal
- Maria Augustinova (Assistant Professor)
- Sylvie Droit-Volet (Professor)
- Ludovic Ferrand (Professor)
- Marie Izaute (Assistant Professor)
- Frédérique Tessiedre (Assistant Professor)
Recent Collaborators
- Lisa Barrett, Boston College
- Lawrence Barsalou, Emory University
- Jamin Halberstadt, University of Otago
- Ursula Hess, University of Quebec at Montreal
- Yuri Miyamoto, University of Wisconsin
- Seth Pollak, University of Wisconsin
- Piotr Winkielman, University of California at San Diego
- Nicolas Vermeulen, Catholic University of Louvain-là-Neuve