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Klaus Scherer

Klaus Scherer is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Klaus Scherer rather than just read about it. In short: Klaus Rainer Scherer (born 1943) is professor emeritus of psychology and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva. He is a specialist in the psychology of emotion.

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Reference excerpt

Klaus Rainer Scherer (born 1943) is professor emeritus of psychology and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva. He is a specialist in the psychology of emotion. He is known for editing the Handbook of Affective Sciences and several other influential articles on emotions, expression, personality and music. He is also a founding editor of the APA journal Emotion.

Education Scherer received a PhD from Harvard University in 1970. In 1990 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.

The Component Process Model The Component Process Model (CPM) is Scherer's major theory of emotions. It regards emotions as the synchronisation of many different cognitive and physiological components. Emotions are identified with the overall process whereby low level cognitive appraisals, in particular the processing of relevance, trigger bodily reactions, behaviours and subjective feelings.

Major publications

Research monographs and books Nonverbale Kommunikation. (1970): Buske. Human Aggression and Conflict. (1972) Prentice Hall (transl. German, Italian). Die Streßreaktion (1985) Hogrefe. Experiencing emotion. (1986) Cambridge UP. Facets of emotion. (1988). Erlbaum.

Edited or co-edited books Nonverbale Kommunikation (1979). Beltz. Social markers in speech (1979). Cambridge UP. Handbook of methods in nonverbal behavior research. (1982). Cambridge UP. Vokale Kommunikation (1982). Beltz. Advances in the social psychology of language. (1982). Cambridge UP. Approaches to emotion (1984) Erlbaum. Psychobiologie (1987) dtv. Psychobiologie (1988) Fischer. Les émotions (1989) Delachaux & Niestlé. Enzyklopädie der Psychologie. Psychologie der Emotion (1990) Hogrefe. Justice: An interdisciplinary perspective (1992) Cambridge UP. Appraisal processes in emotion: Theory, Methods, Research (2001). Oxford UP. Handbook of Affective Sciences (2003). Oxford UP. The New Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research (2005) Oxford UP.

Book chapters Scherer, K. R. (1999). Appraisal theories. In T. Dalgleish, & M. Power (Eds.). Handbook of Cognition and Emotion (pp. 637–663). Chichester: Wiley. Scherer, K. R. (2000). Emotions as episodes of subsystem synchronization driven by nonlinear appraisal processes. In M. D. Lewis & I. Granic (Eds.) Emotion, development, and self-organization: Dynamic systems approaches to emotional development (pp. 70–99). New York/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Scherer, K. R. (2000). Psychological models of emotion. In J. Borod (Ed.). The neuropsychology of emotion (pp. 137–162). Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. Scherer, K. R. (2001). Appraisal considered as a process of multi-level sequential checking. In K. R. Scherer, A. Schorr, & T. Johnstone (Eds.). Appraisal processes in emotion: Theory, Methods, Research (pp. 92–120). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Scherer, K. R. & Zentner, K. R. (2001). Emotional effects of music: production rules. In P. N. Juslin & J. A. Sloboda (Eds). Music and emotion: Theory and research (pp. 361–392). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Scherer, K. R. & Peper, M. (2001). Psychological theories of emotion and neuropsychological research ([1]). In F. Boller & J. Grafman (Eds.). Handbook of Neuropsychology. Vol. 5 (Emotional behavior and its disorders, ed. G. Gainotti, pp. 17–48). Amsterdam: Elsevier. Scherer, K. R., Johnstone, T. & Klasmeyer, G. (2003). Vocal expression of emotion. In R. J. Davidson, K. R. Scherer, H. Goldsmith (Eds.). Handbook of the Affective Sciences (pp. 433–456). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Scherer, K. R. (2004). Feelings integrate the central representation of appraisal-driven response organization in emotion. In A. S. R. Manstead, N. H. Frijda, & A. H. Fischer (Eds.). Feelings and Emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium (pp. 136–157). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Juslin, P.N. and Scherer, K.R. (2005). Vocal expression of affect. In J. Harrigan, R. Rosenthal, & K. Scherer, (Eds.). The New Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research (pp. 65–135). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Scherer, K. R. (2007). Component Models of Emotion Can Inform the Quest for Emotional Competence. In G . Matthews, M. Zeidner, and R. D. Roberts (Eds.), The Science of Emotional Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns. (pp. 101–126). New York: Oxford University Press.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Klaus Scherer

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Klaus Scherer ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Klaus Scherer

In research: Klaus Scherer appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Klaus Scherer in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Klaus Scherer is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1943 births, 20th-century Swiss psychologists, 21st-century psychologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Klaus Scherer outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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What is Klaus Scherer in simple terms?

Klaus Rainer Scherer (born 1943) is professor emeritus of psychology and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva. He is a specialist in the psychology of emotion.

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