Arvid Kappas
Arvid Kappas (born June 16, 1962 in Gießen , Hessen) is a German psychologist and professor at Jacobs University in Bremen.
life and work
In the 1980 winter semester, Kappas began studying psychology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and graduated in 1986 with a diploma. He received his PhD in 1989 from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA. After lecturing at the Canadian Université Laval and the British University of Hull , he was appointed professor at the International University, now Jacobs University, in Bremen in 2003.
Kappas is an internationally recognized expert in the psychology of emotions . At the conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) in August 2013, he was elected President in Berkeley for the following two years. In July 2015 he was re-elected for another two years - until 2017 - at the ISRE conference in Geneva.
Fonts (selection)
- Calvo, RA / D'Mello, SK / Gratch, J. / Kappas, A. (Eds.): The Oxford handbook of affective computing . Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2015.
- Kappas, A. / Krämer, NC (Eds.): Face-to-face communication over the Internet: Emotions in a web of culture, language, and technology . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011.
- Kappas, A. / Krumhuber, E. / Küster, D .: Facial behavior . In JA Hall / ML Knapp (Eds.): Nonverbal Communication . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2013, pp. 131–166.
Web links
- official website of the university
- Selection of lectures by Arvid Kappas , as part of the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks (PDF)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kappas, Arvid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Giessen , Hesse |