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David Sander first studied mathematics and psychology at the
University René Descartes (Paris, France), completed postgraduate
studies in psychology, and received a PhD in Cognitive Science from
the University Louis Lumière (Lyon, France) in 2002. He then joined
the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva
(Switzerland) where he currently holds an Assistant Professor
position. His main teaching and research activities concern the
psychology and cognitive neuroscience of emotion. David Sander is
the Scientific Coordinator of the Swiss National Centre of
Competence in Research for the Affective Sciences based at the
University of Geneva, and
established by the Swiss government and the Swiss National Science
Foundation. Klaus Scherer, born in 1943, studied economics and
social sciences at the University of Cologne and the London School
of Economics. Following his postgraduate studies in psychology, he
obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970. After teaching at
the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the University of
Kiel, Germany, he was appointed, in 1973, full professor of social
psychology at the University of
Giessen, Germany. From 1985 to 2008, Klaus Scherer has held the
chair of emotion psychology at the University of Geneva,
Switzerland, with teaching and research activities focussing on the
areas of
emotion, stress, motivation, personality, and organisational
behaviour. Klaus Scherer is a member of several international
scientific societies and a fellow of the American Psychological
Association and the Acoustical Society of America. He was an
invited professor at Stanford, Berkeley, the University of Zurich,
and EHESS Paris. He has been elected member of the Academia Europea
and honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. He received the lifetime achievement award
of the German Society of Psychology and an Advanced Investigator
Grant of the European Research Council.
Highly accessible and wide-ranging, this book is an important resource for scientists, students and professionals who are eager to obtain a rapid, conclusive overview of central terms and topics in the field of emotion and affect and the mechanisms underlying these aspects dominating wide areas of our lives K.A. Jellinger, Vienna, European Journal of Neurology 17
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