Publications
2023 and in press
Reisenzein, R., Corr, P., & Krupic, D. (in press). Motivation, emotions, and personality. In: P. Corr and D. Krupic (Eds.), Personality and Intelligence. The psychology of individual differences. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
Reisenzein, R. (in press). Emotion theories of the 19th century at the rise of scientific psychology: Darwin, James, Wundt, Meinong, and Freud. In A. Scarantino (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Emotion Theory. London: Routledge.
Reisenzein, R., & Franikowski, P. (2023). On the latency of object recognition and affect: Evidence from temporal order and simultaneity judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,151(12), 3060–3081. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001244
2022
Reisenzein, R., & Schmidt, P. (2022). Emotional Feelings: Evaluative perceptions or position-takings? Introduction to the Special Issue. Emotion Review, 14(4). doi.org/10.1177.17540739221127656
Reisenzein, R. (2022). Emotions as affective position-takings and as nonconceptual meta-representations: A comparison. Emotion Review, 14(4). doi.org/10.1177.17540739221125459
Franikowski, P., & Reisenzein, R. (2022). On the latency of object recognition and affect: Evidence from speeded reaction time tasks. Emotion, 23(2), 486–503. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001092.
Reisenzein, R. (2022). Back to Arnold? Three problems for the social functional theory of emotion. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.6.1.269
2021
Reisenzein, R. (2021). Tasks for a theoretical psychology of emotion. Cognition and Emotion, Online First (Oct 26, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1992356
Franikowski, P., Kriegeskorte, L.-S., & Reisenzein, R. (2021). Perceptual latencies of object recognition and affect measured with the rotating spot method: Chronometric evidence for semantic primacy. Emotion, 21(8), 1744–1759. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000991
Reisenzein, R. (2021). Reply to Ruth Leys. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 5.1.
Reisenzein, R. (2021). Beliefs, desires, and emotions: A theory of emotions and some implications for the understanding of viewer reactions to TV serials. In Nannicelli, T. & Pérez, H. (Eds.), Cognition, emotion, and aesthetics in contemporary serial television. London: Routledge.
2020
Reisenzein, R. (2020). Book review of Ruth Leys, The ascent of affect: Genealogy and critique. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 4.2.
Reisenzein, R., Hildebrandt, A., & Weber, H. (2020). Personality and emotion. In P. J. Corr & G. Matthews (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology (2nd Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ludwig, J., Reisenzein, R., & Hiemisch, A. (2020). Effects of instrumentality and personal force on deontological and utilitarian inclinations in harm-related moral dilemmas. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01222
2019
Reisenzein, R. (2019). Emotionen aus kognitionswissenschaftlicher Sicht. In H. Kappelhoff, J.-H. Bakels, C. Schmitt, & H. Lehmann (Hrsg.), Emotionen. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler.
Pérez, H., J., & Reisenzein, R. (2019). On Jon Snow's death: Plot twist and global fandom in Game of Thrones. Culture & Psychology (Online First April 2019).
Reisenzein, R. (2019). Cognition and Emotion: A plea for theory.Cognition and Emotion, 33, 109-118.
2018
Reisenzein, R. (2018). Naturalized aesthetics and emotion theory. Projections, 12, 76-85.
Reisenzein, R.(2018). Emotionen in Lern- und Leistungskontexten. In B. Spinath, O. Dickhäuser, & C. Schöne (Hrsg.), Psychologie der Motivation und Emotion (S. 80-107). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Junge, M., & Reisenzein, R. (2018). Emotionen. In J. Strohmer (Hrsg). Psychologische Grundlagen für Fachkräfte in Kindergarten, Krippe und Hort (S. 71-79). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Reisenzein, R., & Rudolph, U. (2018). The attributional theory of motivation and emotion: Not surprisingly, true (Commentary). Motivation Science, 4, 21-23.
2017
Reisenzein, R., Horstmann, G., & Schützwohl, A. (2017). The cognitive-evolutionary model of surprise: A review of the evidence. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1-25.
Reisenzein, R., & Horstmann, G. (2017). Emotion. In A. Kiesel & H. Spada (Hrsg.) Lehrbuch Allgemeine Psychologie(4. Auflage) (S. 423-492). Bern: Hogrefe.
Reisenzein, R. (2017). Cognitive theory of emotion. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackleford (eds.) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer International Publishing.
Durán, J. I., Reisenzein, R., & Fernández-Dols, J.-M. (2017). Coherence between emotions and facial expressions: A research synthesis. In J.-M. Fernandez-Dols & J. A. Russell (Eds.).The Science of Facial Expression (pp. 107-129). New York: Oxford University Press.
Reisenzein, R. (2017). The legacy of cognition-arousal theory: Introduction to a special section of Emotion Review. Emotion Review, 9, 3-6.
Reisenzein, R. (2017). Varieties of cognition-arousal theory. Emotion Review, 9, 17-26.
2016
Junge, M., & Reisenzein, R. (2016). Metric scales for emotion measurement. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 58, 497-530.
Reisenzein, R. (2016). Theories of emotion. In H. L. Miller (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of theory in psychology (pp. 264-267). Sage Publications.
Lau, S., & Reisenzein, R. (2016). Evidence for the context dependence of the Side-Effect Effect. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 16, 267-293.
2015
Reisenzein, R. (2015). On the universality of the attribution-affect model of helping. International Journal of Psychology, 50, 308-311.
Reisenzein, R. (2015). Social emotions from the perspective of the computational belief-desire theory of emotion. In A. Herzig & E. Lorini (Eds.), The cognitive foundations of group attitudes and social interaction (Studies in the philosophy of sociality, Vol. 5, pp. 153-176). Berlin: Springer.
Mchitarjan, I. & Reisenzein, R. (2015). The culture-transmission motive in immigrants: A world-wide internet survey. PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science). 10(11): e0141625, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141625 .
Reisenzein, R. (2015). A short history of psychological perspectives on emotion. In: R. A. Calvo, S. K. D'Mello, J. Gratch, & A. Kappas (Eds.): Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing (pp. 21-37). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2014
Junge, M., & Reisenzein, R. (2014). Maximum Likelihood Difference Scaling versus Ordinal Difference Scaling of emotion intensity: A comparison. Quality and Quantity, 49, 2169-2185. DOI 10.1007/s11135-014-0100-1
Reisenzein, R. (2014). The attributional approach to emotion and motivation: Introduction to a Special Section of Emotion Review. Emotion Review, 6, 332-335.
Reisenzein, R., Junge, M., Studtmann, M., & Huber, O. (2014). Observational approaches to the measurement of emotions. In: R. Pekrun & L. Linnenbrink-Garcia (Eds.), International Handbook of Emotions in Education (pp. 580-606). Taylor & Francis / Routledge.
Reisenzein, R., & Stephan, A. (2014). More on James and the physical basis of emotion. Emotion Review, 6, 35-46.
2013
Reisenzein, R., & Siemer, M. (2013). Stimmungen aus der Sicht der kognitiv-motivationalen Theorie der Emotion [Moods from the perspective of the cognitive-motivational theory of emotion]. In F. Reents & B. Meyer-Sickendiek (Hrsg). Stimmung und Methode [Mood and Method] (pp. 95-117). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Reisenzein, R., Hudlicka, E., Dastani, M., Gratch, J., Lorini, E., Hindriks, K., & Meyer, J.-J. (2013). Computational modeling of emotion: Towards improving the inter- and intradisciplinary exchange. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 4, 246-266.
Junge, M., & Reisenzein, R. (2013). Indirect scaling methods for testing quantitative emotion theories. Cognition and Emotion, 27, 1247-1275.
Reisenzein, R., Roberts, R. C., Coricelli, G., Joffily, M. & Gratch, J. (2013). Emotion [Emotion]. In A. Stephan & S. Walter (Hg.) Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft[Handbook of cognitive science] (pp. 258-274). Stuttgart: Metzler.
Reisenzein, R., Studtmann, M., & Horstmann, G. (2013). Coherence between emotion and facial expression: Evidence from laboratory experiments. Emotion Review, 5, 16-23.
2012
Macedo, L., Reisenzein, R., & Cardoso, A. (2012). Surprise and anticipation in learning. In N. M. Seel (Ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning (pp. 3250-3253). Springer US.
Müller, A.-W., & Reisenzein, R. (2012). Emotionen - Natur und Funktion [Emotions - their nature and function] . (Reihe Philosophie und Psychologie im Gespräch.) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.
Reisenzein, R. (2012). Extending the belief-desire theory of emotions to fantasy emotions. Proceedings of the ICCM 2012, 313-314.
Schützwohl, A., & Reisenzein, R. (2012). Facial expressions in response to a highly surprising event exceeding the field of vision: A test of Darwin’s theory of surprise. Evolution & Human Behavior, 33, 657-664.
Reisenzein, R. (2012). What is an emotion in the Belief-Desire Theory of emotion?. In F. Paglieri, L. Tummolini, R. Falcone & M. Miceli (Eds.), The goals of cognition: Essays in honor of Cristiano Castelfranchi (pp. 181-211). London: College Publications.
Reisenzein, R. (2012). Fantasiegefühle aus der Sicht der kognitiv-motivationalen Theorie der Emotion [Fantasy emotions from the perspective of the cognitive-motivational theory of emotion]. In S. Poppe, (Hg.), Emotionen in Literatur und Film [Emotions in literature and film] (S. 31-63). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
Reisenzein, R., & Junge, M. (2012). Language and emotion from the perspective of the computational belief-desire theory of emotion. In P. A. Wilson (Ed.)Dynamicity in emotion concepts (Lodz Studies in Language, 27, 37-59). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Reisenzein, R., Meyer, W.-U., & Niepel, M. (2012). Surprise. In V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd ed. (pp. 564-570). Elsevier.
2010
Reisenzein, R. (2010). Broadening the scope of affect detection research. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 1, 42-45.
Mchitarjan, I., & Reisenzein, R. (2010). Kulturtransmission bei Minderheiten: Ein Theorieentwurf. Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation, 4, 421-435.
Iorio, M., & Reisenzein, R. (2010). (Hg.). Regel, Norm, Gesetz. Eine interdiziplinäre Bestandsaufnahme [Rule, norm, law: An interdisciplinary survey]. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag.
Reisenzein, R. (2010). Moralische Gefühle aus der Sicht der kognitiv-motivationalen Theorie der Emotion [Moral emotions from the perspective of the cognitive-motivational theory of emotion]. In M. Iorio & R. Reisenzein (Hg.), Regel, Norm, Gesetz. Eine interdiziplinäre Bestandsaufnahme [Rule, norm, law: An interdisciplinary survey] (S. 257-283). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag.
2009
Reisenzein, R., & Döring, S. (2009). Ten Perspectives on emotional experience: Introduction to the Special issue. Emotion Review, 1, 195-205.
Reisenzein, R. (2009). Emotional experience in the computational belief-desire theory of emotion. Emotion Review, 1, 214-222.
Reisenzein, R. (2009). Emotions as metarepresentational states of mind: Naturalizing the belief-desire theory of emotion. Cognitive Systems Research, 10, 6-20.
Macedo, L., Cardoso, A., Reisenzein, R., Lorini, L., & Castelfranchi, C. (2009). Artificial surprise. In: J. Vallverdú, & D. Casacuberta (Eds.) Handbook of research on synthetic emotions and sociable robotics: New applications in affective computing and artificial intelligence (pp. 267-291). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Reisenzein, R. (2009). On literary works as simulations that run on minds. Emotion Review, 1, 35-36.
Reisenzein, R., & Weber, H. (2009). Personality and emotion. In: P. J. Corr, & G. Matthews (Eds.) Cambridge handbook of personality psychology (pp. 54-71). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Reisenzein, R. (2009). Einschätzung [Appraisal]. In: V. Brandstätter & J. H. Otto (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie -- Motivation und Emotion (S. 435-445). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Studtmann, M., Otto, J. H., & Reisenzein, R. (2009). Methoden zur Induktion von Emotionen [Methods of emotion induction]. In: V. Brandstätter & J. H. Otto (Hrsg.),Handbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie -- Motivation und Emotion (S. 540-549).Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Reisenzein, R., & Meyer, W.-U. (2009). Surprise. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford companion to the affective sciences (pp. 386-387). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Reisenzein, R. (2009). Schachter-Singer theory of emotion. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford companion to the affective sciences (pp. 352-353). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Reisenzein, R. (2009). Relevance detection. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.),Oxford companion to the affective sciences (pp. 339-340). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2008
Rudolph, U., & Reisenzein, R. (2008). 50 years of attribution research (Editorial).Social Psychology, 39, 123-124.
Reisenzein, R., & Rudolph, U. (2008). The discovery of common-sense psychology. Social Psychology, 39, 125-133.
Reisenzein, R., & Mchitarjan, I. (2008). "The teacher who had the greatest influence on my thinking": Tracing Meinong's influence on Heider. Social Psychology, 39, 141-150.
2007
Reisenzein, R. (2007). What is a definition of emotion? And are emotions mental-behavioral processes? Social Science Information, 46, 424-428.
Reisenzein, R., & Studtmann, M. (2007). On the expression and experience of surprise: No evidence for facial feedback, but evidence for a reverse self-inference effect. Emotion, 7, 612-627.
Siemer, M., & Reisenzein, R. (2007). The process of emotion inference. Emotion, 7, 1-20.
Siemer, M., & Reisenzein, R. (2007). Appraisals and emotions: Can you have one without the other? Emotion, 7, 26-29.
2006
Reisenzein, R. (2006). Emotions as metarepresentational states of mind. In Trappl, R. (Ed.), Cybernetics and Systems 2006 (Vol. 2, pp. 649-653). Proceedings of the 18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research. Vienna: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies.
Macedo, L., Cardoso, A., & Reisenzein, R. (2006). A surprise-based agent architecture. In R. Trappl, (Ed.), Cybernetics and Systems 2006 (Vol. 2). Proceedings of the 18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research. Vienna: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies.
Reisenzein, R., Bördgen, S., Holtbernd, T., & Matz, D. (2006). Evidence for strong dissociation between emotion and facial displays: The case of surprise. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 295-315.
Reisenzein, R. (2006). Arnold's theory of emotion in historical perspective.Cognition and Emotion, 20, 920-951.
Reisenzein, R. (2006). Motivation [Motivation]. In K. Pawlik (Ed.), Handbuch Psychologie [Handbook of Psychology] (pp. 239-247). Berlin: Springer.
Reisenzein, R. (2006). Denken und Emotionen [Thinking and emotions]. In J. Funke & P. A. Frensch (Eds.), Handbuch der Allgemeinen Pychologie - Kognition (Handbuch der Psychologie, Band 4, pp. 475-484). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Reisenzein, R. & Horstmann, G. (2006). Emotion [Emotion]. In H. Spada (Ed.)Lehrbuch Allgemeine Psychologie (3. Auflage, pp. 435-500). Bern: Huber.