Emotions and Social Decisions: An Interpersonal Perspective

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• Antony Manstead, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
• Friday 22 January 2016, 16:30-18:00
• Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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Abstract: I will describe research showing that the social decisions we make (ranging from judgments of facial expressions to decisions about how to allocate resources in an economic game) are shaped by a combination of others’ behaviour and the emotions they express. I will argue that the process underlying this social influence is one of social appraisal: our appraisals of the world around us are shaped by the way in which others appraise it, and their appraisals are inferred from their emotional expressions. Knowledge of others’ appraisals is especially likely to influence judgments about ambiguous stimuli and decisions that involve competition between selfish and prosocial norms. Emotions therefore serve an important interpersonal function by shaping other people’s social decisions.

Antony Manstead has published widely on the topics of emotion, attitudes and social identity. He is a former President of the European Association of Social Psychology, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences, the Association for Psychological Science, and the British Psychological Society. He received the BPS Presidents’ Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge in 2004 and the EASP ’s Henri Tajfel Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. He previously held academic positions at the universities of Sussex, Manchester, Amsterdam, and Cambridge. He is currently Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University.

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