About the Authors

Winfried Menninghaus

w.m@aesthetics.mpg.de

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany, Research Cluster “Languages of Emotion,” Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Valentin Wagner

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany, Research Cluster “Languages of Emotion,” Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Julian Hanich

Current address: Department of Arts, Culture and Media, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Affiliation Research Cluster “Languages of Emotion,” Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Eugen Wassiliwizky

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany, Research Cluster “Languages of Emotion,” Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Milena Kuehnast

Current address: Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany.

Affiliation Research Cluster “Languages of Emotion,” Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Jacobsen

Affiliations Research Cluster “Languages of Emotion,” Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WM TJ VW JH. Performed the experiments: VW EW MK. Analyzed the data: VW MK EW. Wrote the paper: WM VW TJ JH.