Emotion & Personality

  • The clinical psychology program at Universitat des Saarlandes is involved in the clinical application of emotion research with a focus on facial expression.
  • Psychonomics Department at the University of Amsterdam.
  • Cognition and Affect Project at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham. Their technical reports are available here.
  • Personality Project at NorthWestern University, including Personality Processes by William Revelle.
  • The Meanings of Social Interaction page at Indiana University’s Department of Sociology provides articles and downloadable software for the analysis of social interaction and affect.
  • On a more “popular” front, Time magazine has some interesting articles on the WWW, including:
    • GLIMPSES OF THE MIND What is consciousness? Memory? Emotion? Science unravels the best-kept secrets of the human brain.
    • WHAT’S YOUR EQ? It’s not your IQ. It’s not even a number. But emotional intelligence may be the best predictor of success in life, redefining what it means to be smart.
    • CAN MACHINES THINK? Maybe so, as Deep Blue’s chess prowess suggests. and that sparks a fresh debate about the nature of mind. Is it just neurons?

(Geneva Emotion Research Group, 2001-10-10)

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