Emotion Recognition and Memory for Emotional Faces - Neuropsychological Findings and Influencing FactorsAbstract: Recognising emotions in facial expressions is a congenital and cross-cultural ability with immense social relevance. Compared to emotion ...
Social cognition and suicidality: A reviewAbstract. Psychiatric and neurological disorders are associated with increased suicide risk. A lack of social integration and support as well as interpersonal conflicts and ...
The Assessment of Deficits in Executive Function with the Cologne Executive AssessmentAbstract: Executive dysfunctions are common following traumatic brain injury, stroke, or neurodegenerative diseases. The ...
Abstract: Communication disorders following traumatic brain injury have been attributed to social-cognitive dysfunctions. However, this relationship is not always clearly demonstrated in empirical research. This ...
A Gap that Needs to be Closed: The Assessment of Social-Cognitive Abilities in German-Speaking Memory ClinicsAbstract: The assessment of social-cognitive abilities can contribute to diagnosing cognitive disorders. ...
Existing research shows that a sad mood hinders emotion recognition. More generally, it has been shown that mood affects information processing. A happy mood facilitates global processing and a sad mood boosts local processing. Global processing has been ...
This paper investigates whether the greater accuracy of emotion identification for dynamic versus static expressions, as noted in previous research, can be explained through heightened levels of either component or configural processing. Using a paradigm ...
Cognitive and emotional empathy in children with ADHD and conduct disorderObjectives: This study assesses the cognitive and emotional empathic competence in groups of children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders compared to a nonclinical control ...
Emotions“Affective and Social Neuroscience” is a focus in recent research on emotions which has several implications for psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy. Adequate research designs have to be established to serve as “paradigms” within studies ...
Gender and age differences in emotion recognition of children and adolescent: First analysis of FACS coded childrens’ facesIn this article we present two studies focusing on age and gender differences in facial emotion recognition of children and ...
Social cognition in autism spectrum disorder and conduct disorderSocial cognition comprises different aspects of implicit and explicit information processing which take place during social interaction, e. g., implicit attention on social stimuli, emotion ...
Multimethod Approach in Child Emotion Regulation Research: Examining the Relationship Between the Emotional Go-NoGo Task and the Child’s Emotion Regulation Strategies and Behavioral ProblemsAbstract. Recent reviews highlight the need for a multimethod ...
Abstract. The ability to recognize other people’s emotions from their face, voice, and body (emotion recognition ability, ERA) is crucial to successful functioning in private and professional life. The Geneva Emotion Recognition Test (GERT;...
Abstract. Psychosocial stress has been shown to alter social perception and behavior. In the present study, we investigated whether a standardized psychosocial stressor modulates the perceptual sensitivity for ...
Abstract. Two experiments manipulated participants’ familiarity with another person and examined their performance in future understanding of that person’s emotions. To gain familiarity, participants watched several videos of the target ...
Abstract. With the widespread adoption of masks, there is a need for understanding how facial obstruction affects emotion recognition. We asked 120 participants to identify emotions from faces with and without ...
Abstract. Perspective-taking is the ability to intuit another person’s mental state. Historically, cognitive and affective perspective-taking are distinguished from visuospatial perspective-taking ...