Current emotion research in social psychology: thinking about emotions and other people

Journal article

This article discusses contemporary social psychological approaches to (a) the social relations and appraisals associated with specific emotions; (b) other people’s impact on appraisal processes; (c) effects of emotion on other people; and (d) interpersonal emotion regulation. We argue that single-minded cognitive perspectives restrict our understanding of interpersonal and group-related emotional processes, and that new methodologies addressing real-time interpersonal and group processes present promising opportunities for future progress.

Authors: Parkinson, B; Manstead, A

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Journal: Emotion Review
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 371-380
• Publication date: 2015-10-01
• DOI: 10.1177/1754073915590624
• EISSN: 1754-0747
• ISSN: 1754-0739
• Keywords: schadenfreude; social psychology; interpersonal emotion regulation; social appraisal