Workgroup Kappas


Journal Articles


Chmiel, A., Sienkiewicz, J., Thelwall, M. Paltoglou, G., Buckley, K., Kappas, A., & Holyst, J.A. (2011). Collective Emotions Online and Their Influence on Community Life. PLoS ONE, 6 (7), e22207. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022207

Kappas, A. (2011). Emotion is not just an alarm bell—it's the whole tootin' fire truck Cognition and Emotion, 25, 765-781. doi:10.1080/02699931.2011.587641

Kappas, A. (2011). Emotion and regulation are one! Emotion Review, 3, 17–25. doi:10.1177/1754073910380971

Thelwall, M., Buckley, K., Paltoglou, G., Cai, D. & Kappas, A. (2010). Sentiment strength detection in short informal text. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61, 2544-2558. doi:10.1002/asi.21416

Kappas, A. (2010). Smile when you read this, whether you like it or not: Conceptual challenges to affect detection. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 1, 38-41. doi:10.1109/T-AFFC.2010.6

Kappas, A., & Olk, B. (2008). The concept of visual competence as seen from the psychological and brain sciences. Visual Studies, 23, 162-173. doi:10.1080/14725860802276313

Kappas, A. (2007). What is an emotion? Many-splendored things. Emotion Researcher, 22 (1-2), 7.

Krumhuber, E., Manstead, A.S.R., Cosker, D., Marshall, D., Rosin, P., & Kappas, A. (2007). Facial dynamics as indicators of trustworthiness and cooperative behavior. Emotion, 7, 730-735. doi:10.1037/1528-3542.7.4.730

Krumhuber, E., Manstead, A.S.R., & Kappas, A. (2007). Temporal aspects of facial displays in person and expression perception: The effects of smile dynamics, head-tilt, and gender. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 31, 39-56. doi:10.1007/s10919-006-0019-x

Kappas, A. (2006). Appraisals are direct, immediate, intuitive, and unwitting ... and some are reflective ... Cognition and Emotion, 20, 952-975. doi:10.1080/02699930600616080

Kappas, A. (2006). Geheimnisvolle Tränen: Das Phänomen des Weinens aus der Sicht der Neurosemiotik. Zeitschrift für Semiotik, 28, 295-309.

Kappas, A., & Müller, M.G. (2006). Bild und Emotion - Ein neues Forschungsfeld. Publizistik, 51, 3-23.

Nouwen, A., Cloutier, C., Kappas, A., Warbrick, T., & Sheffield, D. (2006). The effects of focusing and distraction on cold-pressor induced pain in chronic back pain patients and controls. Journal of Pain, 7, 62-71. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2005.08.004

Shields, S.A., & Kappas, A. (2006). Magda B. Arnold’s contributions to emotions research. Cognition and Emotion, 20, 898-901. doi:10.1080/02699930600615736

Krumhuber, E. & Kappas, A. (2005). Moving smiles: The role of dynamic components for the perception of the genuineness of smiles. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 29, 3-24. doi:10.1007/s10919-004-0887-x


Books & Book Chapters


Krumhuber, E., Kaiser, S., Kappas, A., & Scherer, K.R. (in press). Body and speech as expression of inner states. In C. Müller, E. Fricke, A. Cienki, & D. McNeill (Eds.), Body – Language – Communication. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter.

Kappas, A., & Krämer, N.C. (2011). Introduction: Electronically mediated face-to-face communication: Issues, questions, and challenges. In A. Kappas, & N.C. Krämer (Eds.), Face-to-face communication over the Internet: Emotions in a web of culture, language and technology (pp. 1-13). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kappas, A., & Krämer, N.C. (Eds.). (2011). Face-to-face communication over the Internet: Emotions in a web of culture, language and technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Küster, D., & Kappas, A. (2011). Peripher-physiologische Verfahren während und nach der Bildbetrachtung. Physiologische Messungen: Herzrate, Hautleitfähigkeit und verwandte Verfahren. In T. Petersen, & C. Schwender (Eds.), Die Entschlüsselung der Bilder: Methoden zur Erforschung visueller Kommunikation. Ein Handbuch (pp. 372-383). Köln: Von Halem Verlag.

Müller, M.G., & Kappas, A. (2011). Visual emotions – emotional visuals: Emotions, pathos formulae, and their relevance for communication research. In K. Döveling, C. von Scheve, & E.A. Konijn (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Emotions and the Mass Media (pp. 310-331). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Olk, B. & Kappas, A. (2011). Eye tracking technology as a tool for visual research. In E. Margolis, & L. Pauwels (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods (pp. 433-451). London: SAGE Publications.

Hess, U., & Kappas, A. (2009). Appraisaltheorien: Komplexe Reizbewertung und Reaktionsselektion In G. Stemmler (Ed.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie: Psychologie der Emotionen (pp. 247-290). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Kappas, A. (2009). Ausdruck: Kommunikations- und Regulationsmedium. In G. Stemmler (Ed.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie: Psychologie der Emotionen (pp.387-443). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Kappas, A. (2009). Mysterious tears: The phenomenon of crying from the perspective of social neuroscience. In Thorsten Fögen (Ed.), Tears in the Graeco-Roman World (pp. 419-438). Berlin & New York: de Gruyter.
 
Kappas, A. (2008). Psssst! Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are actually the same person! A tale of regulation and emotion. In M. Vandekerckhove, C. von Scheve, S. Ismer, S. Jung, & S. Kronast (Eds.), Regulating emotions: Social necessity and biological inheritance (pp. 15-38). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Kappas, A., & Poliakova, N. (2008). Judgments of the affective valence of spontaneous vocalizations: The influence of situational context. In K. Izdebski (Ed.), Emotions in the human voice, Volume 1 (pp. 109-122). San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing.
 
Shields, S.A., & Kappas, A. (Eds.) (2006). Magda B. Arnold's Contribution to Emotion Research and Theory. New York and Hove: Psychology Press.


Conference Presentations


Holyst, J. A., Chmiel, A., Sienkiewicz, Thelwall, M., Paltoglou, G., Buckley, K., & Kappas, A. (2012, March). Collective emotions in cyber-communities. Paper presented at the 37th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics, Tatranské Matliare, Slovakia.

Theunis, M., Kappas, A., & Rimé, B. (2012, January). Loneliness, self-disclosure, and the social sharing of emotion: Why is the wish to belong not sufficient for interpersonal reconnection? Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, California.

Theunis, M., Tsankova, E., Küster, D., & Kappas, A. (2012, January). Emotion in computer-mediated-communication: A fine-grained perspective. Poster presented at the 7th Emotion Pre-Conference to the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, California.

Hall, L., Jones, S. J., Aylett, R., André, E., Paiva, A., Hofstede, G. J., Kappas, A., Nakano, Y., & Nishida, T. (2011). Fostering empathic behavior in children and young people: Interaction with intelligent characters embodying culturally specific behavior in virtual world simulations. INTED2011 Proceedings, 2804-2814.

Kappas, A. (2011). To our emotions, with love: How affective should affective computing be? Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 4th International Conference 2011 Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6874, 1. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24600-5_1

Skowron, M., Rank, S., Theunis, M., & Sienkiewicz, J. (2011). The good, the bad and the neutral: Affective profile in dialog system-user communication. In S. D’Mello, A. Graesser, B. Schuller, & J.-C. Martin (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 6974. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (pp. 337–346). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24600-5_37

Skowron, M., Theunis, M., Rank, S., & Borowiec, A. (2011). Effect of affective profile on communication patterns and affective expressions in interactions with a dialog system. In S. D’Mello, A. Graesser, B. Schuller, & J.-C. Martin (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 6974. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (pp. 347–356). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24600-5_38

Kappas, A., Tsankova, E., Theunis, M., & Küster, D. (2011, September). Cyberemotions: Subjective and physiological responses elicited by contributing to online discussion forums. Poster presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Boston, Massachusetts.

Küster, D., Kappas, A., Theunis, M., & Tsankova, E. (2011, September). Bilateral plantar electrodermal activity elicited by contributing to online discussion forums: Do males and females recover asymmetrically? Poster presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Boston, Massachusetts.

Küster, D., Tsankova, E., Theunis, M., & Kappas, A. (2011, August). Measuring cyberemotions: How do bodily responses relate to the digital world? Poster presented at the 7th Conference of the Media Psychology Division of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Bremen, Germany.

Vujović, L., Tsankova, E., Kappas, A., & Küster, D. (2011, August). Avatars in a "nonymous" vs. anonymous online setting. Poster presented at the 7th Conference of the Media Psychology Division of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Bremen, Germany.

Kappas, A., Küster, D., Theunis, M., & Tsankova, E. (2011, July). Reading or writing internet contents in non-interactive settings triggers emotions: Changes in subjective experience, expression, and physiological activation. In A. Kappas (Chair), Cyberemotions: Emotions in cyberspace – models and empirical approaches. Symposium conducted at the 18th Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions, Kyoto, Japan.

Krumhuber, E., Scherer, K. R., & Kappas, A. (2011, July). Motion and emotion: What dynamic patterns reveal about emotion prototypes. Paper presented at the Symposium "Advances in the study of facial expression of emotion" (convenors: James Russell & Jose‐Miguel Fernandez‐Dols) at the Plenary Meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotions, Kyoto, Japan.

Kappas, A., Küster, D., Tsankova, E., & Theunis, M. (2011, May). How does the digital world link with the heart? Of human emotions and cyberemotions. In A. Kappas (Chair), Getting to the heart of the digital: Automatic analysis of affect in online communication. Symposium conducted at the 61st Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Boston, Massachusetts.

Ahn, J., Borowiec, A., Buckley, K., Cai, D., Chmiel, A., Czaplicka, Dąbrowski, G., Garas, A., Garcia, D., Gobron, S., Hillmann, R., Hołyst, J., Kappas, A., Küster, D., Mitrovic, M., Paltoglou, G., Pirker, H., Rank, S., Schweitzer, F., Sienkiewicz, J., Skowron, S., Sobkowicz, P., Thalmann, D., Thelwall, M., Theunis, M., Tsankova, E., & Weronski, P. (2011). CyberEmotions: Collective emotions in cyberspace. Procedia Computer Science, 7, 221–222. doi:10.1016/j.procs.2011.09.076

Kappas, A., Küster, D., Theunis, M., &, Tsankova, E. (2010). CyberEmotions: Subjective and physiological responses to reading online discussion forums. Poster presented at the 50thAnnual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Portland, Oregon.

Theunis, M., Küster, D., Tsankova, E., & Kappas, A. (2010). CyberEmotions: Online discussion forums elicit subjective emotional response. Poster accepted for presentation at the 3rd European Conference on Emotion, organized by the Consortium of European Research on Emotion, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. Not presented due to air traffic issues (volcanic ash cloud).