CISA Publications
On this page, you find publications involving researchers from the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences and their international network on different topics around emotional competence.
Emotional competence – theory and application
Schlegel,K., & Mortillaro, M. (2018) The Geneva Emotional Competence Test (GECo): An ability measure of workplace emotional intelligence. Journal of Applied Psychology.
Schlegel, K., Mehu, M., van Peer, J. M., & Scherer, K. R. (2018). Sense and sensibility: The role of cognitive and emotional intelligence in negotiation. Journal of Research in Personality, 74, 6–15.
Vesely Maillefer, A., Udayar, S., & Fiori, M. (2018). Enhancing the Prediction of Emotionally Intelligent Behavior: The PAT Integrated Framework Involving Trait EI, Ability EI, and Emotion Information Processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 9.
Wang, Y., Hawk, S. T., Tang, Y., Schlegel, K., & Zou, H. (2018). Characteristics of Emotion Recognition Ability among Primary School Children: Relationships with Peer Status and Friendship Quality. Child Indicators Research.
Elfenbein, H. A., & MacCann, C. (2017). A closer look at ability emotional intelligence (EI): What are its component parts, and how do they relate to each other? Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11(7).
Castro, V. L., Cheng, Y., Halberstadt, A. G., & Grühn, D. (2016). EUReKA! A Conceptual Model of Emotion Understanding. Emotion Review, 8(3), 158–168.
Special issue in the Emotion Researcher: http://emotionresearcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Final-PDFs-of-Emotional-Intelligence-Issue-March-2015-.pdf
Schlegel, K. (2016). Comment: Looking Beyond the Ability EI Model Facilitates the Development of New Performance-Based Tests. Emotion Review, 8(4), 302–303.
Schmidt, R. E., Gay P., Ghisletta P., & Van der Linden M. (2010). Linking impulsivity to dysfunctional thought control and insomnia: A structural equation model. Journal of Sleep Research. 19, 3-11.
Fiori, M. (2009). A new look at emotional intelligence: A dual-process framework. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 13(1), 21–44.
Scherer, K. R. (2007). Componential emotion theory can inform models of emotional competence. (Matthews, G., Zeidner M., & Roberts R. D., Ed.).The science of emotional intelligence: Knowns and unknowns. 101-126.
Wranik, T., Feldmann Barrett L., & Salovey P. (2007). Intelligent emotion regulation: Is knowledge power?. (Gross, J., Ed.).Handbook of emotion regulation. 393-407.
Schmid Mast, M., Jonas K., Klöckner Cronauer C., & Darioly A. (2012). On the importance of the superior's interpersonal sensitivity for good leadership. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 42, 1043-1068.
Hall, J. A., & Schmid Mast M. (2008). Are women always more interpersonally sensitive than men? Impact of goals and content domain. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 34, 144-155.
Sauer, J., Darioly A., Schmid Mast M., Schmid P. C., & Bischof N. (2010). A multi-level approach of evaluating crew resource management training: A lab-based study examining communication skills as a function of team congruence. Ergonomics. 35, 1311-1324.
Scherer, K. R., & Grandjean D. (2008). Facial expressions allow inference of both emotions and their components. Cognition and Emotion. 22(5), 789-801.
Elfenbein, H. A., & Eisenkraft, N. (2010). The relationship between displaying and perceiving nonverbal cues of affect: A meta-analysis to solve an old mystery. Journal of personality and social psychology, 98(2), 301.
Emotion recognition and tests
Schmid Mast, M., & Hall, J. A. (2018). The Impact of Interpersonal Accuracy on Behavioral Outcomes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(5), 309–314.
Schlegel, K., & Scherer, K. R. (2018). The nomological network of emotion knowledge and emotion understanding in adults: Evidence from two new performance-based tests. Cognition and Emotion, 32(8), 1514–1530.
Schlegel, K., Vicaria, I. M., Isaacowitz, D. M., & Hall, J. A. (2017). Effectiveness of a short audiovisual emotion recognition training program in adults. Motivation and Emotion, 41(5), 646–660.
Schlegel, K., Grandjean D., & Scherer K. R. (2014). Introducing the Geneva Emotion Recognition Test: An example of Rasch-based test development.. Psychological Assessment. 26(2), 666-672.
Bänziger, T., Scherer K. R., Hall J. A., & Rosenthal R. (2011). Introducing the Mini PONS: A short multichannel version of the profile of nonverbal sensitivity (PONS). Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 35, 189-204.
Scherer, K. R., & Scherer U. (2011). Assessing the ability to recognize facial and vocal expressions of emotion: Construction and validation of the emotion recognition index. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 35, 305-326.
Bänziger, T., Grandjean D., & Scherer K. R. (2009). Emotion recognition from expressions in face, voice, and body. The Multimodal Emotion Recognition Test (MERT). Emotion. 9(5), 691-704.
Dibben, N., & Coutinho E. (2013). The influence of individual differences on emotion perception in music and speech prosody. 3rd International Conference on Music & Emotion.
Schlegel, K., Grandjean D., & Scherer K. R. (2012). Emotion recognition: Unidimensional ability or a set of modality-and emotion-specific skills?. Personality and Individual Differences. 53, 16-21.
Schmid Mast, M., Hall J. A., & Ickes W. (2006). Inferring power-relevant thoughts and feelings in others: A signal detection analysis. European Journal of Social Psychology. 36, 469-478.
Schmid, P. C., Schmid Mast M., Bombari D., Mast F., & Lobmaier J. S. (2011). How mood states affect information processing during facial emotion recognition: An eye tracking study. Swiss Journal of Psychology, Special Issue: Social Cues in Faces. 70, 223-231.
Péron, J., el Tamer S., Grandjean D., Travers D., Drapier D., Vérin M., et al. (2011). Major depressive disorder skews the recognition of emotional prosody. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 35, 987-99.
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