Trust, Schadenfreude, Guilt, and the Shapes of Rocks on a New Hampshire farm
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University of Queensland, School of Psychology, Australia
In this talk I will review three lines of research from the UQ Social Neuroscience Lab on intergroup emotions: (1) perceptions of intergroup distrust, (2) schadenfreude, and (3) collective emotions on the brain. The first trio of studies examined how perceptions of trust in strangers is moderated by facial features, as well as whether or not the target person shares a group membership with the perceiver. The second group of studies focused on how people in a group respond when their group is the target of laughter from an opposing group when the ingroup has suffered a misfortune. Finally, the third set of studies that I will present looked at how feelings of "collective guilt"--how responsible one feels for the negative actions of one's group--are related to a possible neural marker (i.e., an event-related potential component) of collective emotions. Each of these sets of studies used artificial groups (e.g., the red vs. the blue team) and psychophysiological measures (e.g., facial EMG, EEG) to examine emotional processes that might not otherwise be revealed via more standard self-report measures. Rather than treating emotions as a simple matter of one or two affect dimensions (e.g., positive or negative valence), our approach underscores the importance of taking a functional approach to specific emotions, as many likely evolved in a social context.
Keywords:
emotion,
intergroup relations,
Facial Expression,
Psychophysiology,
Guilt,
Prejudice,
Schadenfreude,
Trust,
social neuroscience
Conference:
ASP2015 - 25th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Psychophysiology, Sydney, Australia, 2 Dec - 4 Dec, 2015.
Presentation Type:
Oral Presentation
Topic:
Psychophysiology
Citation:
Vanman
E
(2015). Trust, Schadenfreude, Guilt, and the Shapes of Rocks on a New Hampshire farm.
Conference Abstract:
ASP2015 - 25th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Psychophysiology.
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2015.219.00054
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Received:
14 Oct 2015;
Published Online:
30 Nov 2015.
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Correspondence:
Dr. Eric Vanman, University of Queensland, School of Psychology, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia, e.vanman@psy.uq.edu.au