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Prof. David Sander, Ph.D.

Department of Psychology
University of Geneva
Office 5135
Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 40
1205 Geneva

Swiss Center for Affective Sciences
Campus Biotech
Chemin des Mines 9
1202 Geneva
Switzerland

Tel: +41 (0) 22 379 09 03

Fax: +41 (0) 22 379 92 19

Email: david.sander(at)unige.ch

English

David Sander is professor at the University of Geneva where he holds the Chair for the psychology of emotion. He studied mathematics and psychology at the University René Descartes (Paris, France), and received a PhD in Cognitive Sciences from the University Louis Lumière (Lyon, France). In 2002, he joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). He is now full professor in this Department where he directs the Laboratory for the study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression. In 2012, he has been appointed Director of the Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives (CISA), and of the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) in Affective Sciences, which is located at the Campus Biotech. He directed the CISA between 2012 and 2024 when he became vice-dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education.
He is mainly interested in the brain and cognitive mechanisms involved in emotion elicitation, and how these mechanisms modulate attention, memory, and decision-making. He has published more than 150 articles and edited 6 books on these topics. For his work, he was awarded the 2013 National Latsis Prize.

 

Français

David Sander est professeur à l’Université de Genève où il occupe la chaire de psychologie des émotions. Après des études de mathématiques, de psychologie et de sciences cognitives à Paris et à Lyon, il a rejoint en 2002 la Section de psychologie de l’Université de Genève au sein de la Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l’éducation. Il y est maintenant professeur ordinaire où il y dirige le Laboratory for the study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression (E3 Lab). En 2012, il est devenu directeur du Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives (CISA) et du Pôle de recherche national (PRN) en sciences affectives, situé dans le Campus Biotech, à Genève. Il a dirigé le CISA entre 2012 et 2024 puis est devenu vice-doyen de la Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation. Ses recherches portent sur les mécanismes impliqués dans le déclenchement de l’émotion et sur la manière dont ces mécanismes modulent la réponse émotionnelle ainsi que l’attention, la mémoire et la prise de décision. Il a publié plus de 150 articles et 6 livres. Pour ses recherches, il a été le lauréat du Prix Latsis National 2013.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Scientific Articles

2024, in press, and preprints
  • Erdemli, A., Audrin, C., & Sander, D. (2024). Is interesting knowledge a reward? An integrative model of emotion, reward, and appraisal frameworks of epistemic curiosity. PsyArXiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/kz2a7
  • Vollberg, M. C., O'Connor, B. B., Vuilleumier, P., Sander, D., & Cikara, M. (2023). Place-related neural activity sets the stage for empathy. PsyArxiv. 10.31234/osf.io/9cqdm
  • Wuensch, L., Stussi, Y., Vernede, T., Murray, R., Sander, D., Péron, J., & Pool, E. R. (2024). Differential influence of habit components on compulsive and problematic reward-seeking behavior. PsyArXiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/jr6m4
2023
  • Sander, D. (2023). Comment les émotions soutiennent-elles les apprentissages scolaires ? [How do emotions support learning at school?]. Revue suisse de pédagogie spécialisée, 13(4), 2-8. doi: 10.57161/r2023-04-01
2022
2021
  • Dukes, D., Abrams, K., Adolphs, R., Ahmed, M. E., Beatty, A., Berridge, K. C., Broomhall, S., Brosch, T., Campos, J. J., Clay, Z., Clément, F., Cunningham, W., Damasio, A., Damasio, H., D'Arms, J., Davidson, J., de Gelder, B., Deonna, J., de Sousa, R., Ekman, P., Ellsworth, P., Fehr, E., Fischer, A., Foolen, A., Frevert, U., Grandjean, D., Gratch, J., Greenberg, L., Greenspan, P., Gross, J., Halperin, E., Kappas, A., Keltner, D., Knutson, B., Konstan, D., Kret, M., LeDoux, J., Lerner, J., Levenson, R. W., Loewenstein, G., Manstead, A., Maroney, T., Moors, A., Niedenthal, P., Parkinson, B., Pavlidis, I., Pelachaud, C., Pollak, S., Pourtois, G., Röttger-Rössler, B., Russell, J. A., Sauter, D., Scarantino, A., Scherer, K., Stearns, P., Stets, J., Tappolet, C., Teroni, F., Tsai, J., Turner, J., Van Reekum, C., Vuilleumier, P., Wharton, T., & Sander, D. (2021). The rise of affectivism. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 816-820. doi: 10.1038/S41562-021-01130-8
2020
2019
2018
2017
  • Kalisch, R., Baker, D. G., Basten, U., Boks, M. P., Bonanno, G. A., Brummelman, B., Chmitorz, A., Fernàndez, G., Fiebach, C. J., Galatzer-Levy, I., Geuze, E., Groppa, S., Helmreich, I., Hendler, T., Hermans, E. J., Jovanovic, T., Kubiak, T., Lieb, K., Lutz, B., Müller, M. B., Murray, R. J., Nievergelt, C. M., Reif, A., Roelofs, K., Rutten B. P. F., Sander, D., Schick, A., Tüscher, O., Van Diest, I., van Harmelen, A.-L., Veer, I. M., Vermetten, E., Vinkers, C. H., Wager, T. D., Walter, H., Wessa, M., Wibral, M., & Kleim, B. (2017). The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders: Current challenges and future perspectives. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 784–790. doi: 10.1038/s41562-017-0200-8
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2005
2004
2003
2002

 

Edited Books

  • Samson, A. C., Sander, D., & Kramer, U. (Eds.). (2024). Change in emotion and mental health. Academic Press.
  • Sander, D., & Herschdorfer, N. (Eds.). (2017). Emotions. Benteli.
  • Brosch, T., & Sander, D. (Eds.). (2016). Handbook of Value: Perspectives from economics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Oxford University Press.
  • Sander, D. (Ed.) (2015). Le monde des émotions. Belin.
  • Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R. (Eds.). (2009/2014). The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences. Oxford University Press.
  • Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R. (Eds.). (2009/2014/2019). Traité de psychologie des émotions. Dunod.
  • Sander, D., & Schwartz, S. (2010). Au coeur des émotions. Le pommier.

 

Book Chapters

2024 and in press
  • Kragel, P. A., Sander, D., & LaBar, K. S. (2024). How can brain data be used to arbitrate among emotion theories? In A. Scarantino (Ed.), Emotion theory: The Routledge comprehensive guide (Vol. 1, pp. 511-542). Routledge.
  • Samson, A. C., Sander, D., & Kramer, U. (2024). Preparing the next generation of studies on change in emotion and mental health. In A. C. Samson, D. Sander, & U. Kramer (Eds.), Change in emotion and mental health (pp. 357-371). Academic Press.
  • Samson, A. C., Sander, D., & Kramer, U. (2024). Summary of the recommendations for research on change in emotion and mental health. In A. C. Samson, D. Sander, & U. Kramer (Eds.), Change in emotion and mental health (pp. 345-356). Academic Press.
2023
2022
  • Zaharia, A., Dell’Angela, L., Sander, D., & Samson, A. C. (2022). Play and games: means to support emotional development. In D. Dukes, A. C. Samson, and E. A. Walle (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of emotional development (pp. 354-369). Oxford University Press.
2021
  • Coppin, G., & Sander, D. (2021). Theoretical approaches to emotion and its measurement. In H. Meiselman (Ed.), Emotion measurement (2nd ed., pp. 3-37). Woodhead Publishing.
  • Pool, E. R., & Sander, D. (2021). Emotional learning: Measuring how affective values are acquired and updated. In H. L. Meiselman (Ed.), Emotion measurement (2nd ed., pp. 133-165). Woodhead Publishing.
2019
  • Mumenthaler, C., & Sander, D. (2019). Socio-affective inferential mechanisms involved in emotion recognition. In D. Dukes & F. Clément (Eds.), Foundations of affective social learning: Conceptualizing the social transmission of value (pp. 142-164). Cambridge University Press.
2018
  • Pichon, A., & Sander, D. (2018). Ingrédients, odeurs et émotions. In M. Grisel & G. Savary (Eds), Matières premières cosmétiques. Lavoisier.

2017
  • Cova, F., Deonna, J., & Sander, D. (2017). “That’s deep!”: The role of being moved and feelings of profundity in the appreciation of serious narratives. In Donald R. Wehrs & Thomas Blake (Eds.) The Palgrave handbook of affect studies and textual criticism (pp. 347-369). Springer.
  • Delplanque, S., Coppin, G., & Sander, D. (2017). Emotion and odors: beyond valence. In A. Buettner (Ed.), Springer handbook of odor (pp. 787-797).
2016
  • Coppin, G., & Sander, D. (2016). Theoretical approaches to emotion and its measurement. In H. Meiselman (Ed.), Emotion measurement (pp 3-30). Woodhead Publishing.
2013
  • Coppin, G., & Sander, D. (2013). Neuropsychologie affective et Olfaction : Etudier la sensibilité de l’amygdale aux odeurs pour tester les théories de l’émotion [Affective neuropsychology and olfaction: Investigate amygdala sensitivity to smells to test theories of emotion]. Dans B. Schaal, C. Ferdenzi & O. Wathelet (Eds.), Odeurs et emotions. Le nez a ses raisons… [Odors and emotions. The nose has its reasons…](pp. 383-398). Université de Bourgogne : Editions Universitaires de Dijon, France.
  • Sander, D. (2013). Models of emotion: the affective neuroscience approach. In J. L. Armony & P. Vuilleumier (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of human affective neuroscience (pp. 5-53). Cambridge University Press.
2012
  • Bediou, B., Sander, D., & Scherer. K. (2012). Régulation des émotions et processus d'évaluation. In M. Desseilles & M. Mikolajczak (Eds), Traité de la régulation émotionnelle (pp. 117-132). Deboeck.
  • Brosch, T., & Sander, D. (2012). Le rôle de l’amygdale dans l’émotion et la cognition sociale [The role of the amygdala in emotion and social cognition]. Dans P. Allain, G. Aubin, & D. Le Gall (Eds.), Cognition sociale et neuropsychologie (pp. 129-144). Solal.
2011
  • Korsten, N., Roesch, E. B., Fragopanagos, N., Taylor, J. G., Grandjean, D., & Sander, D. (2011). Biological and computational constraints to psychological modelling of emotion. In Petta et al. (Eds.), Handbook for research on emotions and human-machine interactions. Springer-Verlag.
2010
2009
  • Delplanque, S., & Sander, D. (2009). Odour and emotion. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (pp. 288-289). Oxford University Press.
  • Korb, S., & Sander, D. (2009). Facial expression of emotion (Neural architecture of). In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (pp. 173-175). Oxford University Press.
  • Sander, D. (2009). The amygdala. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (pp. 28–32). Oxford University Press.
  • Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2009). Psychologie des émotions : Survol des théories et débats. Dans D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), Traité de Psychologie des émotions (pp. 3–39). Dunod.
2008
  • Scherer, K. R., Sangsue, J., & Sander, D. (2008). De la psychologie à la psychopathologie des émotions. In M. Van der Linden & G. Ceschi (Eds.), Traité de psychopathologie cognitive (pp. 23-55). Solal Editeur.
2007
  • Pourtois, G., Sander, D., & Vuilleumier, P. (2007). Dynamique temporelle de l’attention émotionnelle : apports de l’imagerie cérébrale fonctionnelle. Dans G. Michael (Ed.), Neuroscience cognitive de l’attention visuelle (pp. 265-298). Solal Editeur.
2005
  • Scherer, K. R., & Sander, D. (2005). The musical tuning of the brain. [Review of the book Tone of voice and mind]. Music Perception, 23(1), 87-90.
2001
  • Sander, D., & Koenig, O. (2001). Vers un modèle computationnel des mécanismes émotionnels. Dans J. Caron-Pargue, V. Nyckees, & H. Paugam-Moisy (Eds.), La cognition entre individu et société : des modèles et des méthodes. Hermès.