Sylvia Kreibig, Ph.D.

  • Postdoctoral Scholar

Publications

Harrison, N. A., Kreibig, S. D., & Critchley, H. D. (in press). A two-way road: Efferent and afferent pathways of autonomic activity in emotion. In J. L. Armony, & P. Vuilleumier (Eds.), Handbook of human affective neuroscience. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1st ed.

Kreibig, S. D. (2012). Emotion, motivation, and cardiovascular response. In R. A. Wright, & G. H. E. Gendolla (Eds.), How motivation affects cardiovascular response: Mechanisms and applications, (pp. 93–117). Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association.

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.
Shared first authorship.

Kreibig, S. D., Wilhelm, F. H., Roth, W. T., & Gross, J. J. (2011). Affective modulation of the acoustic startle: Does sadness engage the defensive system? Biological Psychology, 87, 161–163.

Tuch, A. N., Kreibig, S. D., Roth, S. P., Bargas-Avila, J. A., Opwis, K., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2011). The role of visual complexity in affective reactions to web pages: Subjective, eye movement, and cardiovascular responses. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2, 230–236. Doi: 10.1109/T-AFFC.2011.18.

Friedman, B. H., & Kreibig, S. D. (2010). The biopsychology of emotion: Current theoretical, empirical, and methodological perspectives. Biological Psychology, 84, 381–382.

Kreibig, S. D. (2010). Autonomic nervous system activity in emotion: A review. Biological Psychology, 84, 394–421.

Kreibig, S. D., Gendolla, G. H. E., & Scherer, K. R. (2010). Psychophysiological effects of emotional responding to goal attainment. Biological Psychology, 84, 474–487.

Kreibig, S. D., Schaefer, G., & Brosch, T. (2010). Psychophysiological response patterning in emotion: Implications for affective computing. In K. R. Scherer, T. Baenziger, & E. Roesch (Eds.), A Blueprint for affective computing: A sourcebook, (pp. 105–130). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

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.

Manuscripts in Preparation or under Review

Kreibig, S. D. (2012). Autonomic nervous system aspects of positive emotion. To appear in M. Tugade, M. Shiota, & L. D. Kirby (Eds.), Handbook of positive emotions. New York: Guilford Press.

Kreibig, S. D., & Gendolla, G. H. E. (2012). Peripheral-physiological measurement of emotion in education and achievement settings. To appear in R. Pekrun, & L. Linnenbrink-Garcia (Eds.), Handbook of emotions and education. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis / Routledge.

Kreibig, S. D., Gendolla, G. H. E., & Scherer, K. R. (2012). Goal relevance and goal conduciveness appraisals lead to differential autonomic reactivity in emotional responding to performance feedback. Manuscript under review.

Edited Books and Journal Issues

Friedman, B. H., & Kreibig, S. D. (Eds.) (2010). The biopsychology of emotion: Current theoretical and empirical perspectives [Special issue]. Biological Psychology, 84(3).

Monographs

Kreibig, S. D. (2009 December). Emotion, motivation, and appraisal: A psychophysiological analysis of differential emotion elicitation in the context of achievement motivation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. URL http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:5400.

Kreibig, S. D. (2004 October). Situational and individual response specificity to emotional films: Effects on experiential, cardiovascular, electrodermal, respiratory, and muscular responses. Unpublished diploma thesis, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany. URL http://affectco.unige.ch/node/819.

Conference Contributions

Symposium Chairs

Kreibig, S. D. (2010 May). Affective engagement—Psychophysiological research on the interaction of affect and motivation viewed from an action phases model. Symposium at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Motivation, Boston, MA, USA.

Kaernbach, C., & Kreibig, S. D. (2008 July). Emotions and emotional representations. International Journal of Psychology, 43, 203. Symposium at the XXIX. International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.

Kreibig, S. D. (2007 October). William James’ legacy: The present state of autonomic response specificity of emotion. Psychophysiology, 44 (S1), S19. Symposium at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 47th Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, USA.

Conference Talks

Kreibig, S. D., Samson, A. C., & Gross, J. J. (2011 September). Between amusement and disgust: Blending of cardiovascular amusement and electrodermal disgust responses in mixed emotions. Psychophysiology, 48, S18. Symposium presentation in M. N. Shiota (Chair), Focus on the positive: New directions in research on the psychophysiology of positive emotion, Society for Psychophysiological Research, 51st Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA.

Kreibig, S. D. (2010 September). Psychophysiology’s third wave. Psychophysiology, 47, S11. Symposium presentation in J. J. B. Allen (Chair), Psychophysiology in the next fifty years, Society for Psychophysiological Research, 50th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, USA.

Kreibig, S. D., Gendolla, G. H. E., & Scherer, K. R. (2010 May). Motivation-based appraisals determine emotion: Psychophysiological effects of self-relevant success and failure. Symposium presentation in S. D. Kreibig (Chair), Affective engagement—Psychophysiological research on the interaction of affect and motivation viewed from an action phases model, 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Motivation, Boston, MA, USA.

Kreibig, S. D., Gendolla, G. H. E., & Scherer, K. R. (2009 August). Psychophysiological effects of emotional responding to goal attainment. Hot topic presentation at the XVI. Conference of the International Society for the Study of Emotion, Leuven, Belgium.

Kreibig, S. D., Wilhelm, F. H., Roth, W. T., & Gross, J. J. (2008 July). A discrete or dimensional affective landscape? Evidence for emotion discreteness from a multiple-response-levels analysis of film-induced fear and sadness. International Journal of Psychology, 43, 203. Symosium presentation in C. Kaernbach & S. D. Kreibig (Chairs), Emotions and emotional representations, XXIX. International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.

Kreibig, S. D., Gross, J. J., Roth, W. T., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2008 March). Den affektiven Raum neu vermessen: Belege für ein diskretes Emotionsmodell aus der Analyse multipler Reaktionsebenen von Film-induzierter Furcht und Traurigkeit [Re-mapping affective space: Evidence for a discrete emotion model based on a multiple-response levels analysis of film-induced fear and sadness]. In P. Khader, K. Jost, H. Lachnit, & F. Rösler (Eds.), Beiträge zur 50. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [Contributions to the 50th Meeting of Experimentally Working Psychologists], (p. 28). Marburg, Germany: Pabst. Symposium presentation in C. Kaernbach (Chair), Peripherphysiologische Reaktionen auf emotionale Stimuli [Peripheral physiological responses to emotional stimuli], 50. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [50th Meeting of Experimentally Working Psychologists], Marburg, Germany.

Kreibig, S. D., Wilhelm, F. H., Gross, J. J., & Roth, W. T. (2007 October). The psychophysiology of fear and sadness: Cardiovascular, electrodermal, and respiratory responses during film viewing. Psychophysiology, 44 (S1), S20. Symposium presentation in S. D. Kreibig (Chair), William James’ legacy: The present state of autonomic response specificity of emotion, Society for Psychophysiological Research, 47th Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, USA.

Conference Posters

Samson, A. C., Kreibig, S. D., & Gross, J. J. (2011 January). Between amusement and repulsion: The role of individual differences in mixed emotional responding. Poster presented at the Psychology of Humor Preconference at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX, USA.

Brinkmann, K., & Kreibig, S. D. (2010 September). Goal engagement and disengagement in dysphoria: Evidence for a maladaptive physiological response to performance feedback. Psychophysiology, 47, S92–S93. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 50th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, USA.

Kreibig, S. D., Gendolla, G. H. E., & Scherer, K. R. (2008 October). I appraise relevance, therefore I emote: Psychophysiological effects of motivation-based appraisal processes in differential emotion elicitation. Psychophysiology, 45 (S1), S73. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 48th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, USA.

Kreibig, S. D., Gendolla, G. H. E., & Scherer, K. R. (2008 July). Because it matters to me: Differential emotion elicitation by experimental manipulation of self-relevance and goal conduciveness appraisals. International Journal of Psychology, 43, 500. Poster presented at the XXIX. International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.

Kreibig, S. D., Gendolla, G. H. E., & Scherer, K. R. (2008 May). Sympathetically activating effects of positive self-reflexive emotions. Poster presented in the Brain, Body, Behavior, and Health Poster Session at the Association for Psychological Science, 20th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, USA.

Kreibig, S. D., Gendolla, G. H. E., & Scherer, K. R. (2008 May). Psychophysiological effects of motivation-based appraisals in differential emotion elicitation. Poster presented at the Inaugural Meeting of the Society for the Study of Motivation, Chicago, IL, USA.

Kreibig, S. D., Gendolla, G. H. E., & Scherer, K. R. (2007 October). Sitting, listening, viewing, or performing? Effects of baseline task on quantification of autonomic reactivity in emotion. Psychophysiology, 44 (S1), S38. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 47th Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, USA.

Wilhelm, F. H., Kolodyazhniy, V., Kreibig, S. D., Roth, W. T., & Gross, J. J. (2007 October). Affective computing: Using computational intelligence techniques to classify the psychophysiological signatures of emotions. Psychophysiology, 44 (S1), S110. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 47th Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, USA.

Kreibig, S. D., Wilhelm, F. H., Roth, W. T., & Gross, J. J. (2006 October). Differential effects of film-induced fear and sadness on acoustic startle. Psychophysiology, 43 (S1), S54. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 46th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Kreibig, S. D., Gendolla, G. H. E., & Scherer, K. R. (2006 June). Motivational appraisal processes in emotion elicitation: What emotion research can learn from motivation theory. Poster presented at the Bertinoro Emotions Workshop of the Consortium of European Research on Emotion, Bertinoro, Italy.

Kreibig, S. D., Wilhelm, F. H., Gross, J. J., & Roth, W. T. (2005 September). Specific emotional responses as deviations from the experimental context. Psychophysiology, 42 (S1), S77. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 45th Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.