Gen Eickers

University of Bayreuth · Department of Philosophy and Economics

Some philosophical and psychological approaches to social interaction posit a powerful explanatory tool for explaining how we navigate social situations: scripts. Scripts tell people how to interact in different situational and cultural contexts depending on social roles such as gender. A script theory of social interaction puts emphasis on underst...

This paper offers a systematic treatment of the social and cultural context of the blush. The paper looks into how different emotion theories approach blushing and does so by differentiating between basic emotion theories, which consider contextual factors but do not make them central to understanding emotional expressions, and contextual emotion t...

Wenn wir davon sprechen, dass etwas sozial unangemessen ist, meinen wir damit in der Regel, dass es keine Übereinstimmung gibt zwischen dem erwarteten Verhalten und dem tatsächlichen Verhalten. Soziale Angemessenheit betrifft dementsprechend Fragestellungen, die (soziale) Normen betreffen. Betrachten wir Angemessenheitskriterien durch die Positione...

There is no specific trans perspective on romantic love. Trans people love and do not love, fall in love and fall out of love, just like everyone else. Trans people inhabit different sexual identities, different relationship types, and different kinds of loving. When it comes to falling in love as or with a trans person, however, things can get mor...

Marginalized communities are confronted with issues resulting from their marginalization, such as exclusion, invisibility, misrepresentation, and hate speech, not only offline but – due to digital change – increasingly online. Our research project DigitalDialog21 aims at evaluating the effects of digital change on society and how digital change, an...

Trans healthcare and thus trans people have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Trans people's healthcare situations have turned out to be so vulnerable in this crisis because they have been precarious to begin with. There are multiple ways in which trans healthcare has been affected: Surgeries and other procedures have been cancelled...

This chapter argues that emotion recognition is a skill. A skill perspective on emotion recognition draws attention to underappreciated features of this cornerstone of social cognition. Skills have a number of characteristic features. For example, they are improvable, practical, and flexible. Emotion recognition has these features as well. Leading...

Digital change is one of the most critical factors influencing social change in most societies. The Digital Evolution Index 2017 showed based on 60 national economies that almost no digitally indifferent societies exist anymore. However, different speeds of development and, above all, different attitudes towards the challenges and opportunities of...

Agnes Moors (this issue) argues for the eliminativism of discrete emotion categories. She presents four objections against classical theories of emotion, such as affect program theory, which emphasizes emotional embodiment. These objections, however, do not refute discrete emotions. In this commentary we defend discrete emotion categories, arguing...

In this poster I argue that blushing is a phenomenon that clashes with the simulation theory of social cognition and interaction: simulation theory cannot explain the actor-observer interaction in a blushing situation. Even if low-level simulation seems to plausibly explain the blushing scenario at first glance, difficulties with this explanation o...