Languages of Emotion

Research

Overview

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Current projects

Externally funded projects

Bauformen der Imagination. Literature and Achitecture in Modernity (GW 704)

Constraints on Embodied Metaphors (GW 701)

Maintaining mechanisms in chronic depression and their changeability: the role of enhanced discrepancy responding

Neural correlates of construction learning (GW 702)

Staging images of war as a mediated experience of community

The researcher's affects

Junior research groups

Adoration and admiration (NG 101)

Emotional Modulation (NG 102)

You make me feel so... Understanding Interaffectivity (NG 103)

Closed projects

Aesthetic modulation of affective valence. The pleasure taken in disgust, anger and sadness in aesthetic experience (205)

Affective and aesthetic processes in reading (110)

Anger and Anxiety: Dimensions of social inequality (320)

Are Germans really green-eyed monsters? Cross-cultural perspectives on benign and malicious envy (407)

Authority, esteem, trust and respect. Emotions and recognition in political processes (312)

Awareness of emotions: Movement behavior as an indicator of implicit emotional processing in subjects with and without alexithymia (307)

B.A.L.I. 2: Language and gesture of Alexithymia (112)

Bilingualism and affectivity in reading (201)

Comparing emotional expression across species – GibbonFACS (308)

Compassion and the "New Priesthood": Transforming the Victorian Moral Economy? (GW 703)

Conceptions of Emotion in Empirical Aesthetics around 1900 (311)

Coolness. Forms and functions of culture-specific affect control in American and Japanese literature and culture (304)

Do birds tango? Biological origins of rhythm as a carrier of emotions (210)

Embodying the nation: Collective emotions and national identification. Lessons from the 2010 FIFA World Cup (408)

Emotion, violence and memory in coping with civil wars. A cultural comparison (310)

Emotional Endophenotypes (405)

Emotions in economic crises: meltdown, bubble, collapse – panic, anger, and guilt (402)

Emotions in word and facial processing (209)

Emotive involvement in conversational storytelling (202)

Empathy in great apes – does witnessing the harming of another conspecific influence helping behaviour? (214)

Experiences of Fascism (401)

Expression and transference of emotion in 19th-century Italian and French opera (316)

Forgiveness: Conceptual and empirical analyses (412)

Honor and dishonor – pride, shame and anger: An investigation into the norms of experiencing, expressing and regulating self-related feelings in sub-populations of German and Turkish origin (106)

How do humorous texts produce positive emotions? Linguistic and emotional frameworks for laughter and amusement in funny poems and scenes (406)

How miracles really work: Minimally counterintuitive concepts in the context of emotion and styles of speech (314)

Imaginations of Passion – Passionate Imagination: Shakespeare's Poetics of Feeling (309)

Interactions between linguistic and emotional competencies - comparative studies of children and adults with linguistic and/or emotional disorders (114)

Investigations on the dynamics of affective viewer responses to film (416)

Mechanisms of fear. The mass media’s construction of the terrorist threat – an intercultural comparison (108)

Medium and emotion. On the emotional effect of music under various media conditions (318)

Meterered language and emotion (115)

Multimodal metaphor and expressive movement (305)

Origins of human social emotions (118)

Passion and Distinction: The Encoding and Functions of Love in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature (206)

Philosophical pre-conditions of speaking about emotion. On the foundation of emotional language-games (303)

Processing of Emotion and Language - Development and interaction across lifespan (319)

Processing of Emotional Prosody in Asperger Syndrome (207)

Prosody and the theory of affect in the 18th century (306)

Reading and emotional competence: The interaction between emotional and language competencies and their changeability (104)

Recognition and Esteem – Performance evaluation – Learning atmosphere. Processes of educating emotions in school (211)

Socialisation and Ontogeny of Emotions in Cross-Cultural Perspective (215)

Information on our work among the Bara

Information on our work among the Minangkabau

Information on our work among the Tao

Sound physiognomy in language organization, processing and production (410)

Spaces of fear in novels of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Reflecting knowledge, re-evaluating, re-conceptualizing (203)

Talking (about) emotion: Emotion regulation through verbal expression (415)

The Berlin Alexithymia Inventory – B.A.L.I. 1 (109)

The Emotionalization of Religion – new emotional styles in the field of religious experience (414)

The Sense of Appropriateness. Emotions and Normativity (213)

The actuality of pictorial representations of the affects: medial and discursive constructions in the early modern period (116)

The affective foundations of sociality: Language, physiology and social differences (411)

The chances of transnational understanding in a united Europe: Emotional language binding and acquisition of foreign languages (107)

The impact of emotional cues on word learning in children aged 14, 20 and 26 months (113)

The language of the body and the language of the novella: The interaction of physiology and poetics in the Romance novella from Boccaccio to Madame de Lafayette (101)

The mobilization of emotions in war films (111)

The neurobiology of empathy in narcissistic personality disorder (208)

The pathologizing of catharsis in the 19th century: Bernays, Freud, Nietzsche (119)

The processing of affective information across different media modalities (117)

The rhetoric of empathy. A cognitive-narratological model (317)

The role of facial mimicry and emotional contagion in the decoding of emotions (105)

The scientific study of aesthetic affects and effects in the Russian avant-garde (121)

The significance of emotional cues for sleep-dependent memory consolidation in language acquisition (302)

Touching and to be touched: "movere" in dance (103)

Touching, Moving, Catching. A detailed analysis of complex feeling concepts (409)

Towards a neural basis of aesthetic emotions (417)

Training socio-emotional competencies: Development and evaluation of a new SOCIAL COGNITION TRAINING TOOL (SCOTT) for adults (216)

Transformations of feelings: Philosophical theories of emotion 1250-1650 (313)

Tristan and Iseult and the medieval culture of emotions (404)

Unleashed Passion between Speech, Gesture, and Sound (315)

Unsettling rhetoric: arguments for undermining the opposition (413)

Vision and Affect: Altarpieces with embedded miraculous images in Italy 1510-1610 (301)