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Rainer Reisenzein

Rainer Reisenzein

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
5849
World Ranking
9803
National Ranking
467

Overview

Rainer Reisenzein is affiliated with the University of Greifswald in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology. Their research primarily spans the study of emotions, moral behavior, and personality traits, with significant emphasis on the psychological mechanisms underlying moral and emotional judgment.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Rainer Reisenzein's publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • "Tasks for a theoretical psychology of emotion" (2021) published in Cognition & Emotion
  • "On the latency of object recognition and affect: Evidence from temporal order and simultaneity judgments." (2022) published in Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Measuring the intensity of emotions" (2024) published in Frontiers in Psychology

Coauthorship has been established with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Philip J. Corr
  • Philipp Franikowski
  • Susan C. Cloninger
  • Alexander Weiß
  • Jeremy C. Biesanz

Their contributions have appeared in various publication venues, notably:

  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Emotion
  • Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture
  • Emotion Review

Rainer Reisenzein's work is situated mainly within psychology, contributing across several subfields such as:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Information Systems and Management

In addition to journal articles, Reisenzein has contributed to academic books published by Cambridge University Press, including a chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology (2020).

Best Publications

  • Pleasure-arousal theory and the intensity of emotions.

    Ranier Reisenzein

  • The Schachter theory of emotion: two decades later.

    Rainer Reisenzein

  • Toward a Process Analysis of Emotions: The Case of Surprise

    Wulf-Uwe Meyer;Rainer Reisenzein;Achim Schützwohl

  • Exploring the strength of association between the components of emotion syndromes: The case of surprise.

    Rainer Reisenzein

  • A Structural Equation Analysis of Weiner's Attribution-Affect Model of Helping Behavior

    Rainer Reisenzein

  • Coherence between Emotion and Facial Expression: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments:

    Rainer Reisenzein;Markus Studtmann;Gernot Horstmann

  • Emotions as metarepresentational states of mind: Naturalizing the belief-desire theory of emotion

    Rainer Reisenzein

  • Effects of Mood on Evaluative Judgements: Influence of Reduced Processing Capacity and Mood Salience

    Matthias Siemer;Rainer Reisenzein

  • Computational Modeling of Emotion: Toward Improving the Inter- and Intradisciplinary Exchange

    Rainer Reisenzein;Eva Hudlicka;Mehdi Dastani;Jonathan Gratch

  • Experiencing activation: energetic arousal and tense arousal are not mixtures of valence and activation.

    Ulrich Schimmack;Rainer Reisenzein

  • The Cognitive-Evolutionary Model of Surprise: A Review of the Evidence.

    Rainer Reisenzein;Gernot Horstmann;Achim Schützwohl

  • Evidence for strong dissociation between emotion and facial displays: the case of surprise.

    Rainer Reisenzein;Sandra Bördgen;Thomas Holtbernd;Denise Matz

  • The Role of Surprise in the Attribution Process

    Joachim Stiensmeier-Pelster;Alice Martini;Rainer Reisenzein

  • Emotional experience in the computational belief–desire theory of emotion.

    Rainer Reisenzein

  • Subjectively Salient Dimensions of Emotional Appraisal

    Rainer Reisenzein;Christine Spielhofer

  • Einführung in die Emotionspsychologie /1

    Wulf-Uwe Meyer;Achim Schützwohl;Rainer Reisenzein

  • What is a definition of emotion? And are emotions mental-behavioral processes?

    Rainer Reisenzein

  • The process of emotion inference.

    Matthias Siemer;Rainer Reisenzein

  • Response Styles in Affect Ratings: Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill

    Ulrich Schimmack;Ulf Böckenholt;Rainer Reisenzein

  • Further observational data on the behavioral and social world of institutions for the aged.

    Margret M. Baltes;Thomas Kindermann;Rainer Reisenzein;Ulrich Schmid

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Schimmack
Ulrich Schimmack University of Toronto
Gernot Horstmann
Gernot Horstmann Bielefeld University

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