Projects
Project
110 Affective and aesthetic processes in reading
Speeches and texts compete for attention, emotions, aesthetic p...
Prof. Dr. Arthur M. Jacobs
111 The mobilization of emotions in war films
This project explores the composition of emotions in Hollywood ...
Prof. Dr. Hermann Kappelhoff
308 Comparing emotional expression across species – GibbonFACS
This project investigates in the evolutionary history of commun...
Prof. Dr. Katja Liebal
312 Authority, esteem, trust and respect. Emotions and recognition in political processes
Psychological categories such as authority and trust play an im...
Dr. Catherine Newmark205 Aesthetic modulation of affective valence. The pleasure taken in disgust, anger and sadness in aesthetic experience
Art often manages that otherwise negative emotions become part ...
Prof. Dr. Winfried Menninghaus
302 The significance of emotional cues for sleep-dependent memory consolidation in language acquisition
Dr. Manuela Friedrich
409 Touching, Moving, Catching. A detailed analysis of complex feeling concepts
Prof. Dr. Thomas Jacobsen307 Awareness of emotions: Movement behavior as an indicator of implicit emotional processing in subjects with and without alexithymia
In this project, we investigate whether or not implicit emotion...
Prof. Dr. Hedda Lausberg
304 Coolness. Forms and functions of culture-specific affect control in American and Japanese literature and culture
The phenomenon of coolness is examined by two particular projec...
Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein316 Expression and transference of emotion in 19th-century Italian and French opera
The musical and theatrical representation of affects, and their...
Prof. Dr. Clemens Risi411 The affective foundations of sociality: Language, physiology and social differences
What are our affective reactions to linguistic representations ...
Prof. Dr. Christian von Scheve
414 The Emotionalization of Religion – new emotional styles in the field of religious experience
Traditionally, religion is closely associated with emotions (su...
Dr. Regine Herbrik407 Are Germans really green-eyed monsters? Cross-cultural perspectives on benign and malicious envy
The behavioral consequences of envy can be either destructive o...
Prof. Dr. Christian von Scheve319 Processing of Emotion and Language - Development and interaction across lifespan
Prof. Dr. Isabell Wartenburger310 Emotion, violence and memory in coping with civil wars. A cultural comparison
How do people in war-torn societies (Cambodia and Timor Leste) ...
Prof. Dr. Ute Luig405 Emotional Endophenotypes
Individual characteristics of behavioral phenotypes of humans a...
Prof. Dr. Malek Bajbouj315 Unleashed Passion between Speech, Gesture, and Sound
This musicological project investigates a fundamental phonetic ...
Prof. Dr. Albrecht Riethmüller417 Towards a neural basis of aesthetic emotions
Emotional experience during listening to music or reading is a ...
Prof. Dr. Stefan Koelsch301 Fascination: An inquiry into history and empiricism of an aesthetic emotion
What makes us spellbound looking at a picture? What makes us re...
Dr. Martin Baisch309 Imaginations of Passion – Passionate Imagination: Shakespeare's Poetics of Feeling
The project seeks to read Shakespeare's plays and poems with a ...
Prof. Dr. Verena Lobsien408 Embodying the nation: Collective emotions and national identification. Lessons from the 2010 FIFA World Cup
By focusing on the FIFA World Cup 2010 we examine the reinforci...
Prof. Dr. Christian von Scheve104 Reading and emotional competence: The interaction between emotional and language competencies and their changeability
How can the contemporary exploration and study of children’s bo...
Prof. Dr. Michael Eid
318 Medium and emotion. On the emotional effect of music under various media conditions
Today, music is predominantly received by media. The technical ...
Prof. Dr. Elena Ungeheuer
201 Bilingualism and affectivity in reading
Taking a cross-language perspective, we investigate the specifi...
Dr. Markus Conrad
115 Meterered language and emotion
Scholars of poetry traditionally claim that meter makes a speci...
Prof. Dr. Sonja A. Kotz305 Multimodal metaphor and expressive movement
A model of dynamic orientation of affect in spoken discourse, T...
Prof. Dr. Hermann Kappelhoff109 The Berlin Alexithymia Inventory – B.A.L.I. 1
This project aims at a comprehensive understanding of alexithym...
Prof. Dr. Isabella Heuser303 Philosophical pre-conditions of speaking about emotion. On the foundation of emotional language-games
The project focuses on the conditions that enable language abou...
Prof. Dr. Gunter Gebauer306 Prosody and the theory of affect in the 18th century
How to compose lyric poetry: Debates on metre and affect in 18t...
Dr. Lars Korten413 Unsettling rhetoric: arguments for undermining the opposition
Good arguments are not always enough to convince another person...
PD Dr. Martin Vöhler215 Socialisation and Ontogeny of Emotions in Cross-Cultural Perspective
To what extent do cultural factors influence the transmission a...
Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler415 Talking (about) emotion: Emotion regulation through verbal expression
The project is aimed at providing scientific evidence for the h...
Dr. Kristin Prehn216 Training socio-emotional competencies: Development and evaluation of a new SOCIAL COGNITION TRAINING TOOL (SCOTT) for adults
The aim of the project is the development of a new test and tra...
Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren416 Investigations on the dynamics of affective viewer responses to film
What is the relationship of the temporal composition of audiovi...
Prof. Dr. Hermann Kappelhoff117 The processing of affective information across different media modalities
Do different media modalities (words, pictures, films) elicit c...
Prof. Dr. Lars Kuchinke412 Forgiveness: Conceptual and empirical analyses
How do emotions influence the tendency, ability, and willingnes...
Dr. Angela Merkl
406 How do humorous texts produce positive emotions? Linguistic and emotional frameworks for laughter and amusement in funny poems and scenes
Humorous art produces positive emotions not only by means of se...
Dr. Bernd Blaschke314 How miracles really work: Minimally counterintuitive concepts in the context of emotion and styles of speech
The world of fairy tales, myths and legends is filled with wond...
Prof. Dr. Rasha Abdel Rahman410 Sound physiognomy in language organization, processing and production
What does the sound of language tell us? Do already the basic s...
Dr. Markus ConradJunior Research Group
NG 102 Emotional Modulation
The external stimulation of brain regions offers insights into ...
Prof. Dr. Malek BajboujNG 101 Adoration and admiration
Although admiration and adoration play an important role in rel...
Dr. Johannes WindrichNG 103 You make me feel so... – Understanding Interaffectivity
This junior research group aims at investigating interaffectivi...
Dr. Isabel Dziobek
Graduate Project
G 311 Motion in Emotion: Cognitive Metaphors in Malay and Indonesian Lyric Poetry and Song Texts
How do metaphors shape our emotion and cognition? Do Malay and ...
Husna JamalG 301 Vision and Affect: Altarpieces with embedded miraculous images in Italy 1510-1610
Isabella AugartG 303 The joy of motoring: Lifestyles and emotional experience
The "joy of motoring" has been discredited in the discourse on ...
Christa Bös
G 309 The relevance of emotion for the acquisition of new words in children with normal language development and children with specific language impairment
The aim of this project is to investigate the impact of negativ...
Carmen HerzogG 206 Differentiation of empathy using emotion inducing filmclips – a fMRI study
How do we reach to induce a first hand emotion, measure it vali...
Corinna PehrsG 202 An ethnography on the social emotion shame in sex education in school
The empirical study - a participatory observation of sex educat...
Sara BlumenthalG 104 Emotion in Transit. Exoticism in European Modern Dance exemplified by Indian movement motifs
Tessa JahnG 212 Emotional competence and language in children with Williams syndrome
The research project investigates interactions between emotiona...
Tanja TagoeG 307 Emotional reactions and sentiments of rejection
The project focusses on the processing of and the emotional res...
Lea GutzG 313 Settling Emotions? The Indian Residential Schools Settlement and Algonquin Survivors in Canada
Emotions play an important role in all reconciliation processes...
Anne-Marie ReynaudG 204 Emotions at Work – Working on Emotions. Germany, 1920 - 1970
This project investigates the relationship between capitalist a...
Sabine DonauerG 305 Evolutionary Psychopathology of Depression: a differentiation between different subtypes of low mood following different adverse life events
This project aims to shed a light onto depression as one catego...
Eiko FriedG 302 Figurations of anger. Revenge, retaliation and the cultural imaginary
When it comes to revenge, boiling rage and cold calculation oft...
Fabian BernhardtG 107 Filmic Movement and the Emotion of the Audience: Lines of tradition in the affect poetics of New Hollywood
Hauke LehmannG 310 Gender and aging effects on the recognition of emotional speech in Farsi
Emotional speech carries vital information of the speaker. But ...
Niloofar KeshtiariG 215 Moving Identities: Metamorphosis in contemporary German literature and beyond
Metamorphosis, or bodily transformation, can be used in literat...
Tara BeaneyG 304 Network patterns in the social sharing of grief
Social network analysis is used to identify patterns of social ...
Roman Ebel
G 113 The moved beholder: Affect modelling and the atmospheric qualities of baroque sanctuaries
Dörte WetzlerG 306 Feelings of guilt and cinematic expression
How do films try to evoke moral emotions such as guilt in their...
Matthias GrotkoppG 209 Sensitiver Stoizismus bei Adam Smith. Eine Studie zur Kritik liberaler Gefühlskultur
Bastian RongeG 203 Sprachen des Gefühls bei Robert Musil
Wie weit kann eine literarische Sprache in der Gestaltung von G...
Rousbeh DjahangiriG 308 Emotion and taboo. Incest in mediaeval narrative texts
Incest is something "you don't talk about" - incest is narrated...
Nora HagemannG 205 Veränderung emotionsregulatorischer Prozesse über die Lebensspanne. Zusammenhänge zwischen neuronaler Aktivität, kognitiven Funktionen und Wohlbefinden
Melanie FeeserG 214 Vergleichende Untersuchung zur Emotionsverarbeitung bei narzisstischer Merkmalsausprägung
Narzissmus scheint mehr oder weniger stark mit psychischer Gesu...
Aline VaterG 211 Wütende Texte. Zu einer literarischen Präsentationsform des Furors
Alfred Alexander StummG 201 Feeling Value – The Economy and Axiology Of Emotions in 17th Century English Drama
This project analyses the influences of economic paradigms on t...
Kathrin BethkeG 207 On the Significance of Feeling for Belief and Knowledge in the Late Writings of G.W.F. Hegel
How do we know whether we really know something or whether we "...
Dorothea Katharina RitterG 314 On the Possibility of Musical Expressivity
What are the necessary and sufficient conditions of our ascript...
Stefan ZwinggiG 312 Between Norm and Nature: Visual and written concepts of motherhood in classical Athens
The mother is a highly emotional subject combining a multitude ...
Viktoria RäuchleVisiting Scholar Project
GW 605 Emotions and spatial art. History of an alliance 1900-1960
The relation between emotion and spacial art in the first decad...
Dr. Julia BurbullaGW 702 Neural correlates of construction learning
In order to learn a language, speakers need to generalize over ...
Prof. Dr. Adele GoldbergGW 603 Shame and grace: inner beauty in the Age of Enlightenment
The project analyzes the aesthetics of grace and "beauty in mov...
PD Dr. Burkhard Meyer-SickendiekGW 701 Constraints on Embodied Metaphors
Emotional, physical, and cognitive experiences have been demons...
Prof. Dr. Adele Goldbergcompleted Projects
202 Emotive involvement in conversational storytelling
How do we signal emotions in everyday interaction? What verbal ...
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen121 The scientific study of aesthetic affects and effects in the Russian avant-garde
Prof. Dr. Georg Witte320 Anger and Anxiety: Dimensions of social inequality
Are there systematic relationships between the experience of sp...
Prof. Dr. Christian von Scheve
213 The Sense of Appropriateness. Emotions and Normativity
Emotions are capable of showing us what we deem important and h...
Prof. Dr. Hilge Landweer113 The impact of emotional cues on word learning in children aged 14, 20 and 26 months
(How) Does emotional prosody influence word learning? We attemp...
Prof. Dr. Gisela Klann-Delius107 The chances of transnational understanding in a united Europe: Emotional language binding and acquisition of foreign languages
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gerhards108 Mechanisms of fear. The mass media’s construction of the terrorist threat – an intercultural comparison
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gerhards119 The pathologizing of catharsis in the 19th century: Bernays, Freud, Nietzsche
In 1857, Jacob Bernays breaks with the Aristotelian catharsis t...
PD Dr. Martin Vöhler101 The language of the body and the language of the novella: The interaction of physiology and poetics in the Romance novella from Boccaccio to Madame de Lafayette
Romance novellas draw upon a specific repertoire of affectively...
Prof. Dr. Irene Albers116 The actuality of pictorial representations of the affects: medial and discursive constructions in the early modern period
What are the medial and discursive constructions of affects and...
Prof. Dr. Klaus Krüger210 Do birds tango? Biological origins of rhythm as a carrier of emotions
Rhythm carries important affective information in human speech,...
Prof. Dr. Constance Scharff
402 Emotions in economic crises: meltdown, bubble, collapse – panic, anger, and guilt
Metaphors of emotion in the discourse surrounding the current f...
Prof. Dr. Christian von Scheve311 Conceptions of Emotion in Empirical Aesthetics around 1900
What is the relationship between the two most fundamental devel...
Prof. Dr. Jutta Müller-Tamm214 Empathy in great apes – does witnessing the harming of another conspecific influence helping behaviour?
Prof. Dr. Katja Liebal401 Experiences of Fascism
Reports of international visitors in Nazi Germany (1933-1945)
Prof. Dr. Oliver Lubrich208 The neurobiology of empathy in narcissistic personality disorder
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Stefan Röpke206 Passion and Distinction: The Encoding and Functions of Love in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
In medieval and early modern English literature courtly love pl...
Prof. Dr. Andrew J. Johnston203 Spaces of fear in novels of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Reflecting knowledge, re-evaluating, re-conceptualizing
How, with which semantics, in which context and with which func...
Prof. Dr. Annette Gerok-Reiter317 The rhetoric of empathy. A cognitive-narratological model
How do readers empathize with characters in narrative fiction? ...
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Till112 B.A.L.I. 2: Language and gesture of Alexithymia
How is alexithymia expressed in language and gesture?
Prof. Dr. Gisela Klann-Delius313 Transformations of feelings: Philosophical theories of emotion 1250-1650
In which ways did medieval and early modern philosophers define...
Prof. Dr. Dominik Perler404 Tristan and Iseult and the medieval culture of emotions
There’s more to the biggest love story ever told than just love...
Prof. Dr. Jutta Eming105 The role of facial mimicry and emotional contagion in the decoding of emotions
Individuals differ in the extent to which they imitate others’ ...
Prof. Dr. Tanja Lischetzke118 Origins of human social emotions
Humans experience particular emotions that even our nearest pri...
Prof. Dr. Michael Tomasello114 Interactions between linguistic and emotional competencies - comparative studies of children and adults with linguistic and/or emotional disorders
Verbal interaction and communication is based on the integratio...
Prof. Dr. Gisela Klann-Delius211 Recognition and Esteem – Performance evaluation – Learning atmosphere. Processes of educating emotions in school
The pre-established culture of recognition and esteem in a prim...
Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf212 Perception of affect and rhythm in prematurely and maturely born infants at the age of 6 months
Prof. Dr. Gisela Klann-Delius324 Catching Others’ Pain - Motivational and interpersonal determinants of non-verbal pain communication and pain empathy
Dr. Daniela Simon329 The relation between joke appreciation and homonym comprehension
The appreciation of puns differs between individuals. The proje...
Prof. Dr. Katharina Spalek102 Honor and dishonor, pride and shame: Cases from 17th century Spanish literature read against the background of contemporary intercultural discussions of honor-killings and "cultures of honor"
Prof. Dr. Irene Albers403 Emotional cues in American popular music: Five decades of the Top 40
How has the use of emotional cues in American popular music cha...
Prof. Dr. Christian von Scheve328 Emotional learning in a reaction time test
Dr. habil. Annette Kinder120 The regulation of emotions by linguistic rituals
In this project the influence of structural parallelisms on emo...
Prof. Dr. Katja Werheid326 Neural correlates of joy and fear
Prof. Dr. Stefan Koelsch204 On the interaction of syntactic form and affectivity—an interdisciplinary study on Construction Grammar approaches to emotion in language
Little, if any, psycholinguistic research has been done on the ...
Prof. Dr. Arthur M. Jacobs325 The Ten Commandments vs. the Rules of Etiquette: Is empathy necessary to forgive?
The aim of the project is to investigate the neural correlates ...
Dr. Angela Merkl327 If speech and emotion diverge: effects of emotion suppression during self presentation in a job application interview
What are the consequences if people suppress their emotions in ...
Prof. Dr. Tuulia OrtnerP 104 Embodied cognition and the comprehension of emotional terms
Dr. Jana Lüdtke
P 102 Feeling as loss of self - Interrelations between theories of Emotion, political thinking, and literature of the 1930's and 1940's
Dr. Sandra Janßen323 Violence, Emotion and Memory: The mobilization of emotions by social movements
The commemoration of victims of violence evokes emotions as pai...
Dr. Steffen HagemannP 301 In an emotional state: The politics of emotion in postwar West Germany
Prof. Anna ParkinsonP 201 Kriegsverbrecher, Feindbilder, Emotionen. Die Wahrnehmung des ICTY in Bosnien, Kroatien und Serbien
Wie wird das International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugosla...
Dr. Natalija BasicP 203 Musikalische Aisthesis und Empathie. Studien zur performativen Expressivität
Dr. Jin Hyun KimP 302 Trading in sorrow: Racialized feeling and transatlantic black performance
Dr. Todd CarmodyP 106 Vibration–Rhythm–Resonance: A Metaphorology of Aesthetic Empathy
The project investigates the metaphorical structures underlying...
Prof. Dr. Tobias WilkeG 103 "My Face" - Identity and emotional structures on social networking websites
People choose information to discribe themselves on online netw...
André HoeverG 208 Affects and their Control in the Works of ABE Kazushige
The project adopts a literary perspective to explore to what ex...
Maria Römer
G 210 Die Fremden ‚fühlen“ = über die Fremden ‚wissen’? Fremdverstehen und die Rolle der Emotionen im Kontext der Informationsvermittlung im ethnographischen Film
Ruth Sereke
G 213 Emotionalität und Heiligkeit in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters
Johannes Traulsen
G 105 Multimodal Integration of Complex Emotional Information
How do I know what you feel? Under normal circumstances, humans...
Sarah Jessen
GW 201 Anthology of Emotions
Prof. Émmanuel DésveauxGW 101 Apollo's flaying of Marsyas
The project traces how the arts move closer and further away to...
Prof. Dr. Lydia GoehrGW 602 About "Gespür" (flair and intuition). A contribution to the theory of lyric
The German word "Gespür" refers to a sense of situation or atmo...
PD Dr. Burkhard Meyer-SickendiekGW 102 Bridging the Arts and Sciences: Interdisciplinary research in the languages of emotion
Prof. Dr. Thomas JacobsenGW 202 Eros and Transference-Lacan's Reading of the Symposium
Prof. Dr. Martin von KoppenfelsGW 502 Halaly: Deutsche Jagdszenen. Zu Heinrich von Kleists Herrmannsschlacht. Wie mobilisiert Literatur welche Emotionen?
Prof. Dr. Barbara VinkenGW 601 Love and human rights in psychoanalysis and in the work of Hannah Arendt
This projects focuses the function of love in psychoanalysis an...
Dr. Idit AlphandaryGW 501 Melodrama and Trauma: Modes of Affective Memory
The project investigates the temporalities that affectively att...
Prof. Dr. Thomas ElsaesserGW 103 Representations of emotion in music - Gestural and embodiment theories
At least since Rousseau, the notion that music represents (and ...
Prof. David LidovGW 402 Storytelling and emotions. Connections for purposes of identity work
Prof. Dr. Michael BambergGW 404 Takt als Kunst des Gefühlsmanagements – im Zusammenhang mit einer vergleichenden Untersuchung zum Glücksgefühl der Familie in Deutschland und Japan
Interagieren Familienmitglieder untereinander mit Taktgefühl? D...
Prof. Dr. Shoko SuzukiGW 403 The language of self-conscious emotion: a thoroughly social account of pride and related emotions
This project reinterprets contemporary research on pride within...
Prof. Dr. Gavin B. SullivanGW 401 Todesszenarien – Kulturtechniken der Emotionalisierung und ihre Effekte
Mit welchen Mitteln wird der Tod in den Künsten in Szene gesetz...
Prof. Dr. Thomas AnzGW 104 Tropes of transport-Hegel and emotion
From Nietzsche to Adorno to Derrida, Hegel's name has come to s...
Dr. Katrin Pahl