Psychological Development and Education ›› 2013, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (2): 214-223.

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A Review of the Emotion As Social Information Model

CHEN Jing, WANG Wei   

  1. School of Educational Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610068
  • Online:2013-03-15 Published:2013-03-15

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Abstract: Emotion As Social Information (EASI) Model proposes that there are two processing ways when we are processing the information from others' emotional expressions. The strength of two processing ways will be affected by epistemic motivation levels and social settings types, and it will exert further impact on people's decision-making. The empirical supports are sometimes direct and sometimes indirect, including experimental results from negotiation research field, leaders research field, and Ultimatum game and Dictator Game research fields. It will help us to further understand and explore the neurophysiology mechanism of the EASI Model with the recent achievements of neurophysiology in theory of mind and empathy research fields. This model has good development potentialities, but it is still not fully grown due to its relative youth. So it needs to be further explored this model in theoretical construction and to apply this model in practice.

Key words: emotion as social information, epistemic motivation, affective reactions, inferential processes, social decision-making

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  • B844
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