Research Interests
My major research interests are on the elicitation, differentiation, and response patterning of emotion. With this, I address the following interlinked questions:
- What are the cognitive-motivational processes that underlie the elicitation and differentiation of emotion and that drive the response patterning in the autonomic and somatic nervous system?
- What are the specific effects of different emotional processes assumed to influence bodily reactions for preparation of adaptive behavior and to produce expressive signals for social communication?
I conceptualize emotion as a multi-component process with effects on cognition, subjective feeling, physiology, motor expression, and action tendencies. To assess emotional processes, I use both self-report measures of emotional feelings as well as psychophysiological variables in my research. More details are available on my research page.
Selected Publications
- Kolodyazhniy, V., Kreibig, S. D., Roth, W. T., Gross, J. J., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2011). An affective computing approach to physiological emotion specificity: Towards subject-independent and stimulus-independent classification of film-induced emotions. Psychophysiology, 48, 908–922.
- Kreibig, S. D. (2010). Autonomic nervous system activity in emotion: A review. Biological Psychology, 84, 394–421.
- Kreibig, S .D., Wilhelm, F. H., Roth, W. T., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Cardiovascular, electrodermal, and respiratory response patterns to fear and sadness-inducing films. Psychophysiology, 44, 787–806.
