Ursula Hess & Shlomo Hareli 
The Social Nature of Emotion Expression [PDF ebook] 
What Emotions Can Tell Us About the World

Chapter 1. The Emotion-Based Inferences in Context (EBIC) model.- Chapter 2. Emotion Recognition as a Social Act: The Role of the Expresser-Observer Relationship in Recognizing Emotions.- Chapter 3. Perceiving Emotion in the ‘Neutral’ Face.- Chapter 4. Affective Pragmatics Extended: From Natural to Overt Expressions of Emotions.- Chapter 5. The Relational Aboutness of Emotions in Interpersonal Contexts.- Chapter 6. The Reverse Engineering of Emotions.- Chapter 7. Social Referencing in Adults and Children.- Chapter 8. Inferring Intentions from Emotion Expressions in Social Decision Making.- Chapter 9. Emotions as Signals of Moral Character.- Chapter 10. What Can We Learn About Others’ Power from their Emotional Expressions?.- Chapter 11. The Use of Emotions to Infer Norms and Standards.- Chapter 12. How You Cry, When You Cry, Why You Cry, and Who You Are: Responses to Adult Crying in Social Contexts.- Chapter 13. The Many Faces of Smiles.

Ursula Hess is Professor of Psychology at the Humboldt-University, Berlin.  She has published numerous articles in scientific journals as well as chapters in edited volumes.  She is co-editor of a textbook on research methodology (Méthodes de recherche en psychologie, Gaëtan Morin, 2000) and author of a textbook on motivation and emotion (Motivation und Emotion, Kohlhammer, forthcoming). She has co-edited two book on emotion communication (Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression, Cambridge University Press, with Pierre Philippot, 2007; Emotional Mimicry in Social Context, Cambridge University Press, with Agneta Fischer, 2016).
Shlomo Hareli is a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Haifa. He has published numerous theoretical and empirical articles in scientific journals as well as chapters in edited volumes.