Short Vita

I am a professor of sociology and head of the “Sociology of Emotions” unit at the Free University of Berlin. I am a member of the board of the Collaborative Research Center “Affective Societies” (SFB 1171) and a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).

Key publications

  • Schauenburg, G., Aryani, A., Hsu, C.-T., Schröder, T., Conrad, M., von Scheve, C., & Jacobs, A. M. (2024). Conflict detection in language processing: Using Affect Control Theory to predict neural correlates of affective incongruency in social interactions. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. DOI:10.1007/s11577-024-00961-3

  • von Scheve, C. (2024). Putting emotions into affective polarization. Cognition and Emotion. DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2346752

  • Wunderlich, P., Nguyen, C., von Scheve, C. (2022). Angry populists or concerned citizens? How linguistic emotion ascriptions shape affective, cognitive, and behavioural responses to political outgroups. Cognition and Emotion. DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2022.2152430

  • Ambrasat, J., von Scheve, C. (2021). Affective meanings and social relations: Identities and positions in the social space. Emotion and Society. ( online first) DOI: 10.1332/263169021X16340311969719

  • Nguyen, C., Salmela, M., von Scheve, C. (2021). From Specific Worries to Generalized Anger: The Emotional Dynamics of Right-Wing Political Populism. In M. Oswald (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Populism (pp. 145-160).