Graduate School of Management, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Cogn Emot. 2012;26(3):385-9. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2012.665029.
Human interactions are replete with emotional exchanges. In these exchanges information about the emotional state of the interaction partners is only one type of information conveyed. In addition, emotion displays provide information about the interaction partners' disposition and the situation as such. That is, emotions serve as social signals. Acknowledging this role of emotions, this special section brings together research that illustrates how both person perception and situational understanding can be derived from emotional displays and the modulation of this process through context. Three contributions focus on information about expressers and their intentions. An additional article focuses on the informative value of emotional expressions for an observer's construal of social situations and another article exemplifies the way context determines the social impact of emotions. Finally, the last article presents the dynamic nature of mutual influence of emotions. In an attempt to integrate these contributions and offer lenses for future research, this editorial offers a contextualised model of social perception which attempts to systematise not only the types of information that emotion expressions can convey, but also to elaborate the notion of context.
人际互动充满了情感交流。在这些交流中，关于互动伙伴情绪状态的信息只是传达的信息类型之一。此外，情绪表达还提供了关于互动伙伴的性格和情境的信息。也就是说，情绪充当了社会信号。承认情绪的这一作用，这个特别部分汇集了研究，说明如何从情绪表达中得出对人的感知和情境理解，以及如何通过情境来调节这一过程。三篇论文集中于表达者及其意图的信息。另一篇文章则侧重于情绪表达对观察者对社会情境的构建的信息价值，另一篇文章则举例说明了情境决定情绪的社会影响的方式。最后一篇文章介绍了情感相互影响的动态性质。为了整合这些贡献并为未来的研究提供视角，这篇社论提供了一个情境化的社会感知模型，该模型不仅试图系统地描述情绪表达可以传达的信息类型，还试图详细说明情境的概念。
