Klaus Rainer Scherer (born 1943) is professor emeritus of psychology and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva. He is a specialist in the psychology of emotion. He is known for editing the Handbook of Affective Sciences and several other influential articles on emotions, expression, personality and music. He is also a founding editor of the APA journal Emotion.

Education

Scherer received a PhD from Harvard University in 1970.

The Component Process Model

The Component Process Model (CPM) is Scherer's major theory of emotions. It regards emotions as the synchronisation of many different cognitive and physiological components. Emotions are identified with the overall process whereby low level cognitive appraisals, in particular the processing of relevance, trigger bodily reactions, behaviours and subjective feelings.

Major publications

Research monographs and books

Edited or co-edited books

Book chapters

Most frequently cited journal articles 1980–2003

Listed in order of frequency of citation

Major articles since 2004

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