We review the burgeoning literature on the social effects of emotions, documenting the
impact of emotional expressions on observers' affect, cognition, and behavior. We find …

Decades of research document individual differences in prosocial behavior using controlled
experiments that model social interactions in situations of interdependence. However …

In this article, we review recent developments in the study of emotional expression within a
basic emotion framework. Dozens of new studies find that upwards of 20 emotions are …

Awe has been theorized as a collective emotion, one that enables individuals to integrate
into social collectives. In kee** with this theorizing, we propose that awe diminishes the …

What emotions do the face and body express? Guided by new conceptual and quantitative
approaches (Cowen, Elfenbein, Laukka, & Keltner, 2018; Cowen & Keltner, 2017, 2018), we …

The self-conscious emotions (SCE) of guilt, shame, pride, and embarrassment are moral
emotions, which motivate adherence to social norms and personal standards and emerge in …

Reputation systems promote cooperation and deter antisocial behavior in groups. Little is
known, however, about how and why people share reputational information. Here, we seek …

The study of prosocial behavior—altruism, cooperation, trust, and the related moral emotions—
has matured enough to produce general scholarly consensus that prosociality is …

Emotion is central to the structure and processes of personality and the conflicts and crises
that accompany personality development (Mala-testa, 1990; Pervin, 1993). Establishing the …

The human smile is highly variable in both its form and the social contexts in which it is
displayed. A social-functional account identifies three distinct smile expressions defined in …