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Emeritus-professor in experimental, theoretical psychology, and  emotion research.
Recent publication:
The laws of emotion. Mahwah, Erlbaum, 2007.
Impulsive action, and motivation. Biological Psychology, 84, 570-579.   DOI information: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.01.005
Frijda, N.H. (in press). Emotion regulation and free will. In T. Vierkant, A. Clark & J.   Kiverstein (Eds.) Decomposing the will . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Frijda, N.H. (2010). Not passion's slave. Emotion Review, 2. 68-75.

Biography

Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Studied psychology at Amsterdam University. Ph.D. 1956 at Amsterdam University on a thesis on  "Understanding Facial Expression of Emotions",
Worked as clinical psychologist at the Dutch Army Neurosis Center and youth delinquency center, Ministry of Justice, 1952-1955. Assistant professor, University of Amsterdam, 1955-1965. Professor in experimental and theoretical psychology, 1965-1992 (retirement), University of Amsterdam. Professor extraordinarius in emotion psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1992-2002.
Visiting professor, Universiteit van Maastricht, University College Utrecht, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme/LEPS, Paris, Université de Paris X-Nanterre, Université de Genève, Universitas de San Sebastian, Universitá di Bari, Universitá di Padova, Universidade di Sao Paulo.
Chairman, Netherlands Psychonomics Foundation, 1965-1975; co-founder, executive officer, member, International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE); director, Institute for Emotion and Motivation, Amsterdam University,1988-1992.
Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences; member, Netherlands Society for the Sciences; member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Honorary Doctorate, Universitá degli Studi di Padova.
Three children from a first marriage. Living in Amsterdam with his present wife and their son.

Current research interests

General emotion theory remains in my interests. My main preoccupation is to further develop functional theory, that is, description at the information processing and process description level of theory, and notably, of motivational states in emotions (states of action readiness). My current thinking can be found in The Laws of Emotion, Mahwah, Erlbaum, 2007.
A second topic is that of he nature offeelings. They are more than and different from body feelings.
A third topic: the relationships between emotion and emotion regulation. Emotion regulation includes a number of different processes that are part of the process of emotion generation itself.
The subject of emotion regulation relates to that of free will. Free will has a legitimate place in the analysis of emotion and of decision making. I seek to clarify its operation.

• flexibility (pdf)

• experience (pdf)

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Selected publications

Books
Frijda, N.H. (2007). The laws of emotion. Mahwah: Erlbaum.
Frijda, N.H. (1993). De psychologie heeft zin (Psychology is meaningful). Amsterdam: Prometheus.
Frijda, N. H. (1986). The emotions.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Dutch transl.1988)(Italian transl. 1990).

Co-editor edited volumes

Frijda, N.H. (Ed.), (2007). Klaus Scherer's article on 'What are emotions?': comments. Social Science Information, 46, 381-443.
Manstead, A.S.R., Frijda, N.H., & Fischer, A.H. (Eds.)(2004). Feelings and emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
N.H. Frijda, A.R.S. Manstead, & S. Bem (Eds.)(2000). Emotions and beliefs: How emotions influence thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Frijda, N.H. (Ed.). (1993). Appraisaland beyond: Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
Frijda, N.H. & Schram, D. (Eds). (1995). Emotions and cultural products. Special Issue, Poetics, Vol. 23.
Frijda, N.H. &De Groot, A.D. (Eds.). (1982). Otto Selz: His contribution to psychology.  The Hague: Mouton.

Selected publications

Frijda, N.H. (2009). Emotions, individual differences, and time course: Reflections. Cognition and Emotion, 23, 1444-1461.

Frijda, N.H. (in press). Emotion regulation and free will. In T. Vierkant, A. Clark & J.   Kiverstein (Eds.) Decomposing the will . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Frijda, N.H. (2010). Not passion's slave. Emotion Review, 2. 68-75.

Frijda, N.H. (2010). Impulsive action, and motivation. Biological Psychology, 84, 570-579.   DOI information: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.01.005;
  Frijda, N.H. (2009). Emotion experience and its varieties. Emotion Review, 1, 261-271.

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