Current Specific Research Projects
Affective Hospitality
Dr Juliane Völker, Dr Marcello Mortillaro
In partnership with the École Hôtelière de Lausanne, CISA is pioneering a new field at the intersection of affective science and hospitality. This project defines the emerging domain of Affective Hospitality and introduces an inn…
Affectivism: The homepage
Dr. Daniel Dukes, Pr. David Sander, [...]
Affectivism can be described as the approach in which the inclusion of affective processes in models of behavior, mind, and brain not only explains affective phenomena but, critically, further enhances the power to explain co…
Applied Affective Sciences
Dr. Marcello Mortillaro
The research focus « Applied Affective Sciences » brings together NCCR researchers whose studies address practical real-world needs or aim at developing innovative products.
Emodor
Dr. Sylvain Delplanque
The idea that olfaction and emotion are closely linked has long been a pervasive belief in people’s minds. But how much of this belief is fact, and how much just folk wisdom?
Emotion and Mental Imagery
Pr. Fabrice Teroni, Pr. Julien Deonna [...]
The project explores how emotions and mental imagery interact, aiming to reshape theories in both fields and inform clinical and cognitive science applications.
In Defense of Affective Benevolence
Pr. Julien Deonna
The project defends emotions like compassion and guilt as essential to genuine benevolence, challenging views that see them as selfish or unreliable, and proposes a pluralist ethical framework for philanthropy.
Influence of peripheral information on behavioural and spatio-temporal neural mechanisms of vocal emotion production and perception
Pr. Didier Grandjean
In recent years, a substantial body of work shed light on behavioral, electrophysiological and neural mechanisms involv…
Language and culture
Dr. Cristina Soriano
The goal of the focus is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in the study of language and culture in the experience and linguistic expression of emotion.
Relevance in the affective and cognitive sciences
Pr. David Sander, Dr. Daniel Dukes
We experience emotions about things we appraise as important to us, that concern our identities, motivations and well-being - that are relevant to us. We develop this idea in the affective and cognitiv…
Why do we use tools? Investigating the drivers of tool use in non-humans and humans
Pr. Thibaud Gruber
Humans stand out among all other animals, even among their own family, primates. Our uniqueness has been attributed to several factors, most often to our amazing facul…