Biography

Training and academic positions: Agneta Fischer graduated in theoretical psychology at Leiden University (cum laude) 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 professorship from the De Beauvoir foundation on Gender and management. From 2003 onwards she has a Professorship in the department of Social Psychology on Emotions and Affective Processes.

Administrative positions: From 2001-2005 she was head of the department of Social Psychology. From 2006-2012 she was chair of the Psychology Department at the UvA. She currently is Director of the Psychology Research Institute at the UvA.

National activities: She is chair of the Dutch Association of Social Psychologists (ASPO) and member of the board of the Kurt Lewin Institute. 

International activities: From 2005-2009, she was president of ISRE (International Society of Research on Emotions) and she is co-director of CERE (Consortium of European Emotion Researchers). She is editor of Cognition and Emotion (together with Carien van Reekum), and member of the editorial board of Emotion and of Social Psychology Personality and Science.

Current research interests

The general theme of my research is the influence of social context on emotion, emotion recognition and emotion regulation. 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 and emotional mimicry).
2. Another line of research focuses on the way in which social cues, like status or gender influence the recognition of emotions. To examine this we have developed a new set of emotional faces in our lab (see the ADFES link). I have also coordinated a research project in collaboration with VPRO and NTR on contextual influences on emotion recognition.
3. A third line of research is concerned with the social functions of negative emotions, like anger, contempt, and hate.

• International Society forResearch on Emotion

• Amsterdam Dynamic Facial Expression Set

A selection of publications before 2008

Publications after 2008 can be found under the tap 'Publications'.

Books and edited volumes:

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. (1993). Sex differences in emotionality: Fact or stereotype? Feminism and Psychology, 3 , 303-318.

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, 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.

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): Moving the mind: Embodied emotion concepts and their consequences.

Onderzoek Organisatiecultuur

Hier vindt u de PDFfiles van onderzoeken naar organisatieculturen in relatie tot doorstroming van vrouwen naar topfuncties.

• Onderzoeksrapport SZW Glazen Plafond

• Onderzoeksrapport Culturele Sector

Gender, culture and emotion

Below you find downloadable papers on the topic of gender differences and culture differences on emotions. This research was mainly conduced by my PhD students, Monique Timmers, Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera, and Catharine Evers.

• Sex differences in emotional stereotypes

• Honor and emotion

Research on facial expressions

Below you find papers on research conducted by my PhD students, Ruud Zaalberg and Esther Jakobs, in collaboration with Tony Manstead.

• Display rules, social motives and facial displays

Research on social aspects of emotion

• Social appraisal and emotions

• Review of emotion communication in CMC

ADFES

Amsterdam Dynamic Facial Expression Set
Skyler Hawk and Job van der Schalk developed a new stimulus set, containing nine emotions, posed by male and female actors from different ethnic backgrounds. This set is available and can be freely used for research.

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