The Embodied Emotional Mind

Piotr Winkielman; Paula M. Niedenthal; Lindsay M. Oberman

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511805837.012

Abstract

The environment is filled with emotionally significant information. On a walk in a forest, an individual might encounter a friendly dog or a disgruntled bear. In nearly every social interaction, an individual might be confronted with facial, vocal, and postural signs of emotion. Thus, spouses smile, colleagues frown, children pout, babies gurgle, and students tremble with anxiety or giggle with joy. Even computers deliver "just joking" faces by e-mail whereas stores and snacks lure with smiley faces. The importance of such information is now well documented: Emotionally charged objects can capture attention, bias perception, modify memory, and guide judgments and decisions (for an overview, see Eich, Kihlstrom, Bower, Forgas, & Niedenthal, 2000; Winkielman, Knutson, Paulus, & Trujillo, 2007).

Keywords

SmileyEmbodied cognitionPsychologyPerceptionFacial expressionSocial psychologyAnxietyCognitive psychologyCommunicationLinguisticsNeuroscienceEpistemologyPhilosophy

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Year: 2008
Type: book-chapter
Pages: 263-288
Citations: 106
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                                    Piotr Winkielman, 
                                
                                    Paula M. Niedenthal, 
                                
                                    Lindsay M. Oberman
                                
                            (2008). 
                            The Embodied Emotional Mind. 
                            Cambridge University Press eBooks
                            
                            , 263-288.
                            https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511805837.012

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DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511805837.012