“The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness

Tsikandilakis, Myron; Bali, Persefoni; Yu, Zhaoliang; Karlis, Alexandros Konstantinos; Tong, Eddie Mun Wai; Milbank, Alison; Mevel, Pierre Alexis; Derrfuss, Jan; Madan, Christopher

doi:10.1007/s12144-023-04518-z

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“What a tale we have been in”: Emplotment and the Exemplar Characters in The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter Series (2023)
Journal Article
Milbank, A. (2023). “What a tale we have been in”: Emplotment and the Exemplar Characters in The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter Series. Educational Theory, 73(5), 782-796. https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12601

Linda Zagzebski's theory of moral exemplarity emphasizes the importance of admiration in developing ethical behavior. This essay argues that admiration involves wonder and distance and is best evoked by mixed or flawed characters; it demonstrates thi... Read More about “What a tale we have been in”: Emplotment and the Exemplar Characters in The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter Series.

Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication (2023)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Lanfranco, R. C., Kausel, L., Yu, Z., Boncompte, G., …Derrfuss, J. (2023). Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication. Perception, 52(11-12), 812-843. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066231204180

The aim of the current research was to explore whether we can improve the recognition of cross-cultural freely-expressed emotional faces in British participants. We tested several methods for improving the recognition of freely-expressed emotional fa... Read More about Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication.

Unbiased individual unconsciousness: Rationale, replication and developing applications (2023)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Karlis, A., Mével, P., Madan, C., Derrfuss, J., & Milbank, A. (2023). Unbiased individual unconsciousness: Rationale, replication and developing applications. Current Research in Behavioural Sciences, 4, Article 100109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crbeha.2023.100109

“The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness (2023)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Yu, Z., Karlis, A. K., Tong, E. M. W., Milbank, A., …Madan, C. (2024). “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness. Current Psychology, 43(5), 3999-4015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04518-z

Sadness has typically been associated with failure, defeat and loss, but it has also been suggested that sadness facilitates positive and restructuring emotional changes. This suggests that sadness is a multi-faceted emotion. This supports the idea t... Read More about “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness.