Klaus Scherer

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Associate member

University of Geneva — Department of Psychology
Psychology

General Information


Klaus Scherer is a Professor emeritus at the University of Geneva. He founded and directed the Centre Interfacultaire en Science Affectives and the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences.


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Klaus Scherer, born in 1943, studied economics and social sciences at the University of Cologne and the London School of Econom­ics. Following his postgraduate studies in psychology, he obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970. After teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the University of Kiel, Germany, he was appointed, in 1973, full professor of social psychology at the University of Giessen, Germany. From1985 to 2008, Klaus Scherer was full professor of psychology at the University of Ge­neva, Switzerland, where he has founded and directed the Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives as well as the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (a Swiss National Center of Competence in Research). He is now Professor emeritus at the University of Geneva. His research activities focus on emotion, guided by his Component Process Model of emotion (CPM). For over 40 years, research programs fi­nanced by granting agencies and private foundations in the USA, Germany, Switzerland, and the European Union (including participation in several Networks of Excellence), are directed at the study of the effects (and the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms) of cognitive evaluations of emotion-eliciting events, on facial and vocal emotion expression, and on the nature of emotional feelings and their categorization and labeling. Scherer reported this work in numerous publications in the form of monographs, contributed chapters, and papers in international journals. He edited several collected volumes and handbooks and co-edits the "Affective Science Series" for Oxford University Press. He is a founding co-editor of the journal Emotion. He is a co-founder of the Coordination Européenne en Recherche sur les Emotions (CERE) and of the International Society of Reserach on Emotion (ISRE). Klaus Scherer is a member of several in­ternational scientific societies and a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association of Psychological Science and the Acoustical Society of America. He was an invited professor at Stanford, Berkeley, the University of Zurich, and EHESS Paris. He has been elected member of the Academia Europea, honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Bologna and the University of Bonn and has been appointed  honorary professor at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich.

Research field


Klaus Scherer's current research interests concern the further theoretical development and empirical validationof his Component Process Model of emotion (CPM), specifically the modeling of appraisal processes and the synchronization of action tendencies, motor expression, and physiological reaction patterns, as well as the reflection of these processes in subjective experience. Other major research foci consist of the study of the expression and perception of affect in voice and speech and applied emotion research. Cross-cultural research also constitutes an important aspect of his work. Much of his recent work is oriented towards studying the elicitation of aesthetic emotions through music and the definition and assessment of emotional competence. See also PROPEREMO: Production and perception of emotion: An affective sciences approach

List of publications


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2016

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  • Gillioz, C., Fontaine, J. R. J., Soriano, C., & Scherer, K. R. (2016). Mapping Emotion Terms into Affective Space [Scientific Article]. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 75(3), 141–148. https://doi.org/10.1024/1421-0185/a000180

2015

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  • Mortillaro, M., Meuleman, B., & Scherer, K. R. (2015). Automated Recognition of Emotion Appraisals [Book Chapter]. In J. Vallverdu (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Synthesizing Human Emotion in Intelligent Systems and Robotics. Information Science Reference. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7278-9.ch016

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  • Glowinski, D., Mortillaro, M., Scherer, K. R., Dael, N., Volpe, G., & Camurri, A. (2015). Towards a Minimal Representation of Affective Gestures (Extended Abstract) [Proceedings Chapter]. In 2015 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII). 2015 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Xi’an (China). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACII.2015.7344616

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2014

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2012

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2011

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  • Valstar, M. F., Jiang, B., Mehu, M., Pantic, M., & Scherer, K. R. (2011). The First Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis Challenge [Proceedings Chapter]. In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2011) (pp. 921–926). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/FG.2011.5771374

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2010

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2009

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  • Chrea, C., Delplanque, S., Grandjean, D. M., Cayeux, I., Le Calvé, B., Margot, C., Velazco, M. I., Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2009). Toward a Domain-specific Scale to Verbally Measure Odour-elicited Emotions [Proceedings Chapter]. In Abstracts from the XVIIIth Congress of European Chemoreception Research Organization, ECRO–2008 (p. E42). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjn083

Dictionary / Encyclopedia articles

  • Mortillaro, M., & Scherer, K. R. (2009). Bodily expression of emotion [Dictionary / Encyclopedia contribution]. In D. Sander & K.R. Scherer (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences. Oxford University Press.
  • Mortillaro, M., & Scherer, K. R. (2009). Multimodal expression of emotion [Dictionary / Encyclopedia contribution]. In D. Sander & K.R. Scherer (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences. Oxford University Press.

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2008

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2007

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2005

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  • Scherer, K. R. (2005). Unconscious processes in emotion: The bulk of the iceberg [Book Chapter]. In P. Niedenthal, L. Feldman-Barrett, & P. Winkielman (Ed.), The unconscious in emotion. Guilford.
  • Juslin, P. N., & Scherer, K. R. (2005). Vocal expression of affect [Book Chapter]. In J.A. Harrigan, R. Rosenthal, & K.R. Scherer (Ed.), The New Handbook of methods in nonverbal behavior research. Oxford University Press.

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  • Bornand, C., Camurri, A., Castellano, G., Catheline, S., Crevoisier, A., Roesch, E., Scherer, K. R., & Volpe, G. (2005). Usability evaluation and comparison of prototypes of tangible acoustic interfaces [Proceedings Chapter]. In Proceedings of ENACTIVE05. 2nd International Conference on Enactive Interfaces. Proceedings of ENACTIVE05. 2nd International Conference on Enactive Interfaces, Genoa (Italy).

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1979

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  • Giles, H., Scherer, K. R., & Taylor, D. M. (1979). Speech markers in social interaction [Book Chapter]. In Scherer, K.R & Giles, H. (Ed.), Social markers in speech (pp. 343–381). Cambridge University Press.

1978

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