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How self-relevance appraisal affects the reading of emotion: a multi-disciplinary approach. – SELFREADEMO
Emotions are known to serve several intra- and interpersonal functions. They notably structure and organize ongoing social interactions. However, to initiate adapted behaviours in response to other’s emotional signal, one needs to correctly evaluate its functional significance for the self. The eval
Fiction in Emotion – FICTION
For over forty years, philosophers have struggled with the “paradox of fiction”, which is the issue of how we can get emotionally involved with fictional characters and events. What is the nature of sadness or joy which is not tied to a real personal loss or satisfaction? The FICTION project address
Study of the relationships between cognition, motivation, and personality, for emotional adaptation and regulation, using empathic virtual simulation – COMPARSE
The present project aims to investigate the links between emotions, cognition and behaviour in terms of performance facilitation, protection, and vulnerability as a function of empathetic emotional contexts. The main hypothesis is that the emotional context’s effect on perceptive, executive, motor p
The Powers of Art. Aesthetic experience, emotion, knowledge, behavior. – PDA
The affective turn, a move away from formalism and reception theory all invite reconsideration of the role of emotions in the process of artistic creation and reception. Furthermore, current research on emotions deriving in particular from analytical philosophy, cognitive science and reception theor
Surprise in the spontaneity of emotions: a vector for enlarged cognition – Emphiline
This interdisciplinary fundamental research project involves three main scientific fields of research: philosophy/phenomenology, neurosciences/cardiovascular-physiology/psychiatry and linguistics/psycholinguistics. It aims at exploring the nature of the interactions between emotion and cognition and
Interaction emotion-cognition in the study of literal and figurative language in schizophrenia and bipolar disorders : behavioral and electrophysiological studies – ELISE
/ / / / The aim of this proposal is to investigate disturbances of understanding of "emotional language" in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. By "emotional langage", we mean emotions wich can be drawn from utterances, thanks to affective valence of words or phrases, expression of emotional state o
The emotion regulation strategies: cross-modal, lifespan, and cross-cultural approaches – STREEM
Although the emotion regulation is a key issue to address the quality of life and mental health, the effect of age on emotional regulation is remained relatively unexplored, leaving unresolved several questions. The aim of this project is to examine the ability to regulate emotion in young, middle-a
Role of multisensory integration in facial emotion understanding; developmental and neuropsychological approaches – INTERFACE
The general objective of the present project is to investigate the role of multisensory integration in the ability to recognize and understand facial emotion, by considering both developmental aspects in infancy and neuropsychological aspects in schizophrenia. The main hypothesis is that multisensor
How Emotions Influence Decision-making: an Interdisciplinary perspective – HEIDI
The neural mechanisms underlying the influences of emotional and motivational processes on decision making remain poorly understood. There is a need for building an integrative account of emotional and decisional processes, bridging the gap between fundamental computational principles and the brain
The Free Energy Theory of Emotions – Fr-E-Emo
Human decisions cannot be explained solely by rational imperatives but are strongly influenced by emotions. Here we intend to combine decision theory, psychology and neuroscience in order to study the emergence of emotions in decision-making using computational and neuroimaging methods. In all exper
Cognition-Emotions interactions in the Olfactory modality – ICEO
The aim of the project is to better understand the relations between emotions and cognition in olfactory perception. This interaction is explored from the structure of the odorants at two levels: in cognitive terms as a function of lexical knowledge of odors and in neurobiological terms as a functio
Emotions in social interaction: theory, experiments, logical and computational studies – EmoTES
The project EmoTES focuses on the specific class of ”strategic emotions”, namely those emotions such as guilt, remorse, moral satisfaction, envy and anger which arise in the context of strategic interaction (that is, when an agent's utility of a given choice also depends on what other agents will de
Time Distortions by Emotions – TDE
As Gibbon reminds us (1977), time is the fourth dimension of life. Over a period of several decades, the few psychologists who have taken an interest in time have focused exclusively on demonstrating humans' abilities to estimate time accurately and on showing that these abilities are based on the f