Research

Research interests

My research interests include emotions and moral judgment; emotion and self-control; and intergroup emotions.  Particularly important in my work are the emotion pairs anger versus disgust, and shame versus guilt, as well as the more general distinction between self-conscious emotions (e.g. guilt) and non-self-conscious emotion (e.g. anxiety).  I also am interested in the automaticity of emotional influences on judgment, both in general, and in comparing the automaticity of different emotion types.  Some applications of my recent work have been to: judgments of moral deviance; legal decision making; eating and dieting; and intergroup apologies.

Key publications

Giner-Sorolla, R. (in press). Judging passions: Moral emotions in persons and groups. Psychology Press.

Russell, P. S., & Giner-Sorolla, R. (2011). Social justifications for moral emotions: When reasons for disgust are less elaborated than for anger. Emotion, 11, 637-646.

Giner-Sorolla, R., & Espinosa, P. (2011). Social cueing of guilt by anger and shame by disgust. Psychological Science, 22, 49-53.

Giner-Sorolla, R., Castano, E., Espinosa, P., & Brown, R. J. (2008). Shame expressions reduce the recipient's insult from outgroup reparations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 519-526.