Interactions between emotions and social context: Basic, clinical and non-human evidence

• Main Author: Sonja A E Kotz (auth)
• Other Authors: Jorge Moll (auth), Louise Barrett (auth), Maria Ruz (auth), Agustin Ibanez (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Neuropsychiatry; Social Behavior; social neuroscience; Embodied Cognition; Emotion Regulation; contextual social cognition; Social Decision Making; Emotions
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The emotions that we feel and also those that we perceive in others are crucial to the social functioning of both humans and non-human animals. Although the role of context has been extensively studied in basic sensory processing, its relevance for social cognition and emotional processing is little...