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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1990 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Klaus R. Scherer is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research is prominently situated within the field of Psychology, with a focus on Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance

Publication venues where they have frequently contributed include:

  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Lancet Digital Health
  • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Klaus R. Scherer include:

  • Evidence for the existence of emotion dispositions and the effects of appraisal bias (2020, Emotion)
  • The rise of affectivism (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Theory convergence in emotion science is timely and realistic (2022, Cognition & Emotion)
  • Promotion of mental health in young adults via mobile phone app: study protocol of the ECoWeB (emotional competence for well-being in Young adults) cohort multiple randomised trials (2020, BMC Psychiatry)
  • Investigating individual differences in emotion recognition ability using the ERAM test (2021, Acta Psychologica)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Scherer include:

  • Johnny R. J. Fontaine
  • Felix Burkhardt
  • Reinhard Pekrun
  • Alexandra Newbold
  • Benjamin Aas

Klaus R. Scherer has received recognition by being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and becoming a Member of Academia Europaea in 1990.

Best Publications

  • What are emotions? And how can they be measured?:

    Klaus R. Scherer

  • Universals and cultural differences in the judgments of facial expressions of emotion

    Paul Ekman;Wallace V. Friesen;Maureen O'Sullivan;Anthony Chan

  • Appraisal considered as a process of multilevel sequential checking.

    Klaus R. Scherer

  • Acoustic profiles in vocal emotion expression.

    Rainer Banse;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Appraisal processes in emotion: Theory, methods, research.

    Klaus Rainer Scherer;Angela Schorr;Tom Johnstone

  • Appraisal processes in emotion.

    Phoebe C. Ellsworth;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Handbook of affective sciences.

    Richard J. Davidson;Klaus Rainer Scherer;H. Hill Goldsmith

  • Vocal affect expression: a review and a model for future research

    Klaus R. Scherer

  • Vocal communication of emotion: a review of research paradigms

    Klaus R. Scherer

  • Emotions evoked by the sound of music: Characterization, classification, and measurement.

    Marcel Robert Zentner;Didier Maurice Grandjean;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Appraisal Theories of Emotion: State of the Art and Future Development

    Agnes Moors;Phoebe C. Ellsworth;Klaus R. Scherer;Nico H. Frijda

  • The Geneva Minimalistic Acoustic Parameter Set (GeMAPS) for Voice Research and Affective Computing

    Florian Eyben;Klaus R. Scherer;Bjorn W. Schuller;Johan Sundberg

  • The dynamic architecture of emotion: Evidence for the component process model

    Klaus R. Scherer

  • The world of emotions is not two-dimensional.

    Johnny R.J. Fontaine;Klaus R. Scherer;Etienne B. Roesch;Phoebe C. Ellsworth

  • The Relationship of Emotion to Cognition: A Functional Approach to a Semantic Controversy

    Howard Leventhal;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Evidence for universality and cultural variation of differential emotion response patterning.

    Klaus R. Scherer;Harald G. Wallbott

  • Emotion as a multicomponent process: A model and some cross-cultural data.

    Klaus R. Scherer

  • Emotion Inferences from Vocal Expression Correlate Across Languages and Cultures

    Klaus R. Scherer;Rainer Banse;Harald Günter Wallbott

  • EMOTIONAL EFFECTS OF MUSIC: PRODUCTION RULES

    Klaus R. Scherer;Marcel R. Zentner

  • Approaches to Emotion

    Klaus Rainer Scherer;Paul Ekman

Frequent Co-Authors

David Sander
David Sander University of Geneva
Didier Maurice Grandjean
Didier Maurice Grandjean University of Geneva
Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman University of California, San Francisco
Sylvain Delplanque
Sylvain Delplanque University of Geneva
Tobias Brosch
Tobias Brosch University of Geneva
Guido H. E. Gendolla
Guido H. E. Gendolla University of Geneva
Agnes Moors
Agnes Moors KU Leuven
Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Phoebe C. Ellsworth University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael Eid
Michael Eid Freie Universität Berlin
Wallace V. Friesen
Wallace V. Friesen University of California, San Francisco

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