Emotions are an important behaviour of humans and may arise in driving situations. Uncontrolled emotions can lead to harmful effects. To control and reduce the negative impact of emotions, we have built a virtual driving environment in which we can capture and analyse emotions felt by the driver using EEG systems. By simulating specific emotional situations we can provoke these emotions and det...

Recent advances in understanding prejudice and intergroup behavior have made clear that emotions help explain people's reactions to social groups and their members. Intergroup emotions theory (D. M. Mackie, T. Devos, & E. R. Smith, 2000; E. R. Smith, 1993) holds that intergroup emotions are experienced by individuals when they identify with a social group, making the group part of the psycholog...

Using a daily process design, the present study examined relationships between momentary appraisals and emotional experience based on Smith and Lazarus' (1993) theory of emotions (1993). Nine times a day for 2 weeks, participants (N = 33, 23 women) recorded their momentary experience of 2 positive emotions (joy, love) and 4 negative emotions (anger, guilt, fear, sadness) and the core relational...

We present a goal and belief model of emotions and on this basis we classify the emotions people feel while at work. Among “individual” emotions we distinguish the so-called primary emotions and their “families” from cognitive emotions like curiosity and boredom; among “social” emotions we include those linked to attachment, Image and Self-Image, and the Image of the Other. We describe an empir...