Agneta Fischer
Biography
Agneta Fischer graduated in theoretical psychology at Leiden University and obtained her PhD on a dissertation entitled ‘Emotion Scripts’ at the same University in 1991. Since that year she was employed by the University of Amsterdam at the Department of Social Psychology, where she has held a number of research and teaching positions. From 1998-2003 she held a part-time professorship from the De Beauvoir foundation on Gender and management. From 2003 onwards she has a Professorship in the department of Social Psychology on Emotion theory.
Administrative positions: From 2001-2005 she was head of the department of Social Psychology. From 2006 she has been chair of the Psychology Department at the UvA. From 2005-2009, shewas president of ISRE (International Society of Research on Emotions) and member of the steering committee of CERE (Consortium of European Emotion Researchers).
International Society forResearch on Emotion
Current research interests
The general theme of my research is the influence of social context on specific emotions. There are three lines of research.
1. One line of research concerns the way in which emotional reactions of other people to an emotional stimulus affect one’s own emotional expressions and subjective experiences (e.g. emotional contagion).
2. Another line of research focuses on the way in which social cues, like status or gender influence the recognition of others' emotions. To examine this we have developed a new emotional faces set in our lab (see the ADFES link)
3. A third line of research is concerned with the social functions of negative emotions, like anger, contempt and disgust.
Amsterdam Dynamic Facial Expression Set
A selection of publications
Books/Edited Volumes (selection)
Fischer, A.H. (Ed.) (2000). Emotion and gender: Social Psychological Perspectives.London: Cambridge University Press.Manstead,A.S.R., Frijda, N.H., & Fischer, A.H. (Eds.) (2004).
Feelings and Emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium. New York: Cambridge University press.
Parkinson, B., Fischer, A.H., & Manstead, A.S.R. (2005). Emotion in social relations: Cultural, group and interpersonal processes. New York: Psychology Press.
Doosje, B. & Fischer, A. H. (Eds.)(2005). Niet boos, maar teleurgesteld. Emoties in het dagelijks leven. Schiedam: Scriptum.
Fischer, A. H. (2010). De zin en onzin van emoties. Amsterdam: Prometheus.
Refereed journals English
Fischer, A.H. & Jansz, J. (1995). Emotions and Western personhood. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 25, 59-81.
Timmers, M., Fischer, A.H. & Manstead, A.S.R. (1998). Gender differences in the motives for regulating emotions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 974-986.
Fischer, A., Manstead,A.S.R. & Rodriguez, P.M. (1999). The role of honor-based versus individualistic values in conceptualizing pride, shame, and anger: Spanish and Dutch cultural prototypes. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 149-179.
Jakobs, E., Manstead, A.S.R. & Fischer, A.H. (1999). Social motives and subjective determinants of facial displays: The case of smiling. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 424-436.
Rodriguez Mosquera, P. M., Manstead, A. S. R., & Fischer, A. H. (2000). The role of honor-related values in the elicitation, experience and communication of pride, shame and anger. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 7, 833-845.
Jakobs, E., Manstead, A. S.R., &Fischer, A.H. (2001). Social context effects on facialactivity in a negative emotional setting. Emotion, 1,1 (pp. 51-70).
Manstead, A. S. R. & Fischer, A. H. (2002).Culture and emotion: Beyond the universality-relativity dichotomy. Introduction to Culture and Emotion, Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion, 16, 1-9.
Rodriguez, P. M., Manstead, A. S. R., & Fischer, A. H. (2002). The role of honor concerns in emotional reactions to offenses. Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion: Culture and emotion, 16, 143-165.
Timmers, M., Fischer, A. H., & Manstead, A. S. R (2003). Ability versus vulnerability: Beliefs about men’s and women’s emotional behavior. Cognition and Emotion,17, 41-63.
Zaalberg, R., Manstead, A.S.R., & Fischer, A.H. (2004) Relations between emotions, display rules, social motives andfacial behavior. Cognition and Emotion,18, 183-207.
Fischer, A. H., Rodriguez, P. M., vanVianen, E.A.M., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2004). Gender and culture differences in emotion. Emotion, 4, 87-94.
Fischer, A. H., Rotteveel, M.,Evers, C., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2004). Emotional assimilation: How we are influenced by others’ emotions. Cahier de Psychologie Cognitive, 22, 223-245.
Van Zomeren, M., Spears, R., Fischer, A. H., & Leach, C. W. (2004). Put your money where your mouth is! Explaining Collective Action Tendencies Through Group-Based Anger and Group Efficacy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 649-664.
Evers, C. A. M., Fischer, A. H., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2005). Anger and social appraisal: A spicy sex difference. Emotion, 3, 258-266.
Pennekamp, S., Doosje, B., Zebel, S. & Fischer, A. H (2007). The past and the pending: The antecedents and consequences of group-based anger in historically and currently disadvantaged groups. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 10, 41-57.
Fischer, A. H. & Roseman, I. J. (2007). Beat them or ban them: The characteristics and social functions of anger and contempt. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 103-115.
Van Zomeren, M., Fischer, A. H., & Spears, R. (2007). Testing the limits of tolerance: How intergroup anxiety amplifies negative responses to out-group initiated contact. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33
Maringer, M., Krumhuber, A. G., Fischer, A. H., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2011). Beyond smile dynamics: Mimicry and beliefs in judgments of smiles. Emotion , 11, 181-187.
Hawk, S. T., Fischer, A. H., & Van Kleef, G. A. (2011). Taking your place or matching your face: Two routes to empathic embarrassment. Emotion , 11, 502-513.
Van der Schalk J., Fischer, A. H., Doosje , E.J., Wigboldus, D., Hawk, S., Rotteveel, M., & Hess, U. (revision). Convergent and Divergent Responses to Emotional Displays of Ingroup and Outgroup. Emotion , 11, 286-298.
Van der Schalk, J., Hawk, S. T., Fischer, A. H. & Doosje, B. J. (2011). Moving faces, looking places: Validation of the Amsterdam Dynamic Facial Expression Set (ADFES). Emotion, 11, 907-920.
Fischer, A. H. & Evers, C. (2011). The social costs and benefits of anger as a function of gender and relationship context. Sex Roles, 65 , 23-34.
Fischer, A. H., Gillebaart, M., Rotteveel, M., Becker, D., & Vliek, M. (2011). Veiled emotions: The effect of covered faces on emotion perception and attitudes. Social Psychology and Personality Science,
Hawk, S. T., Fischer, A. H., & Van Kleef, G. A. (2011). Face the noise: Embodied responses to nonverbal vocalizations of discrete emotions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Oosterwijk, S., Winkielman, P., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., Rotteveel, M., & Fischer, A. H. (2011). Mental States Inside Out: Switching Costs for Emotional and Non-emotional Sentences that Differ in Internal and External Focus. Memory and Cognition,
Oosterwijk, S., Rotteveel, M., & Fischer, A. H. (2011). Remembering the self versus knowing the world: Emotional consequences of episodic and semantic fear representations. Psychophysiology, 48,
Chapters in books
- Fischer, A. H. & Manstead, A. S. R. (2000). Gender differences in emotion across cultures. In A.H. Fischer (Ed.), Emotion andgender: Social Psychological Perspectives (pp.91-97). London: Cambridge University Press.
- Manstead, A.S.R., Fischer, A.H. & Jakobs, E.(1999). The social and emotional functions of facial displays. In P. Philippot, R. S. Feldman &E.J. Coats (Eds.), The social context of nonverbal behavior (pp. 287-316). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Manstead, A.S.R. & Fischer, A.H. (2001). Social appraisal. In K. R. Scherer, Schorr, A., & Johnstone, T. (Ed). Appraisal processes in emotion: Theory, methods, research. New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press.
- Fischer, A. H., Manstead, A.S.R., & Zaalberg (2003). Social influences on the emotion process. European Review of Social Psychology, vol. 14,171-201.
- Fischer, A.H. Manstead, A.S.R., Evers, C., Timmers, M.&Valk, G. (2004). Motives and norms underlying emotion regulation. In P. Philippot & R. S. Feldman (Eds.), The regulation of emotion (pp. 187-212). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Fischer, A.H. & van Vianen, E.A.M (2004). The persistence of the glass ceiling: Maskedmasculinity in organizations. In Ph. Essed, A. Kobayashi, & D.T. Goldberg (Eds.), A Companion of Gender Studies. London: Blackwell.
- Fischer, A. H., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2008). The social function of emotions. In M. Lewis, J. Haviland-Jones & L.F. Barrett (Eds), Handbook of Emotions (3rd edition, pp). New York: Guilford.
- Fischer, A. H. & Manstead, A. S. R. (2008). Functions of emotions from an organizational perspective. In N. Ashkanasy & G.L. Cooper (Eds.), ResearchCompanion to Emotions in Organizations (pp. 605-616). London & Boston: Edwar Elgar.
- Eagly, A. H. & Fischer, A. H. (2008). Gender inequalities in powerinorganizations. In B. van Knippenberg & D. Tjosvold (Eds.), Power and interdependence in organizations (pp. 186-204) New York : Cambridge University Press.
- Fischer, A. H. & Evers, C. (in press). Anger in the context of gender. In M. Potegal & Ch. Spielberger (Eds.), Handbook of anger
- Evers, C., Fischer, A. H., & Manstead, A. S. R. (in press). Gender and Emotion Regulation: A Focus on Anger.
PhD students
I (Co) supervised the following PhD projects:
K. Rojahn: Gender in the context of leadership (1996).
E. Jacobs: faces and feelings in social contexts (1998).
P. Rodriguez Mosquera: The relationship between honor and gender and its social implications (1999).
M. Timmers: Sex differences in emotion expression (2000).
R. Zaalberg: The expression of emotion in social situations: The mediatingrole of display rules and social motives (2005).
C. Evers: Sex differences in anger: The role of social appraisal in anger regulation (2005).
I.de Pater: Doing things right or doing the right thing: A new perspective on the gender gap in career success (2005).
S. Pennekamp: Dynamics of disadvantage: Uncovering the role of group-basedanger (2008).
S. Hawk (2010): Changing channels: Flexibility in empathic emotion processes.
J. van der Schalk (2010): Reactions to emotional displays in intergroup contexts
S.Oosterwijk (2011)