Research activity

Biographical note

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, CISA, University of Geneva, 2009 - 2011

• Ph.D. Psychology, University of Michigan, USA, 2009
  • Dissertation: The influence of emotions on cognitive flexibility
  • Advisors: Richard Gonzalez and Phoebe Ellsworth

• M.S. Psychology, University of Michigan, USA, 2006
  • Thesis: Identities in harmony? Identity integration and professional women’s congruent and contrary reactions to identity primes
  • Advisors: Margaret Shih and Fiona Lee

• Diplom Psychology, Humboldt University at Berlin, Germany, 2005
  
  • Supervisor: Fiona Lee and Wolfgang Scholl

Current research

Emotions

Different types of valence experience

List of publications

PAPERS

• Sacharin, V., Gonzalez, R., & Anderson, J.-H. (in press).Object and user levels of analyses in design: the impact of emotion on implicit and explicit preference for 'green' products. Journal of Engineering Design.

• Sacharin, V., Lee, F. & Gonzalez, R. (2009). Identities in harmony? Gender-work identity integration moderates frame-switching in cognitive processing, Psychology of Women Quarterly, 33 (3), 275-284.

• Kopelman, S., Gewurz, I. & Sacharin, V. (2008). The power of presence: Strategic response to displayed emotions in negotiations. In C. Cooper & N. Ashkanasy (Eds.), Research companion to emotions in organizations (pp. 405-417). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Pub.

• Sacharin, V. & Gonzalez, R. The Influence of Positive and Negative Emotions on Probabilistic Reward Learning and Creativity. (2010). Manuscript submitted for publication.

• Sacharin, V., & Sander, D.; Scherer, K. Perception of changing emotions. (2010). Manuscript in preparation, Swiss Center of Affective Sciences, Geneva.
  

• Sacharin, V., & Sander, D.; Scherer, K. Types of valence . An appraisal perspective. (2010). Manuscript in preparation, Swiss Center of Affective Sciences, Geneva.
  

• Sacharin, V., & Gonzalez, R. Germany and US – Cultural differences in friendship. (2010). Manuscript in preparation, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
  

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Sacharin, V., & Sander, D., & Scherer, Klaus (2010, April). Already there, already gone. The perception of changing emotions.Presentation at the Third European Conference on Emotion, Lille, France

• Sacharin, V., & Gonzalez, R. (2009, February). Making change or dealing with change: Depending on arousal level, positive emotions change the ability to adjust to new rules. In V. Sacharin (Chair), Beyond valence: The consequences of emotions for cognitive breadth and flexibility. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.

• Sacharin, V., & Gonzalez, R. (2008, July). Germany and US – Cultural differences in friendship. Presentation at the meeting of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology in Bremen, Germany.

• Sacharin, V., & Gonzalez, R. (2008, July). Cultural differences in friendship. Presentation at the International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.

• Sacharin, V., & Gonzalez, R. (2008, March). American and German friends - similarities and differences. Presentation at the Illinois-Michigan Cultural Psychology Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.

• Sacharin, V., & Gonzalez, R. (2008, February). Americans are peaches and Germans are coconuts? Cultural similarities and differences in friendship. In V. Sacharin (Chair), Cultural differences in friendship. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.

• Sacharin, V. & Gonzalez, R. (2008, February). The impact of emotions on implicit and explicit preferences for ‘green’ products. Poster session presented at the emotions preconference of the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.

• Sacharin, V., Lytle, A. L., & Kopelman, S. (2006, June). Identity conflict in negotiations. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Association of Conflict Management, Montreal. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=913765

• Sacharin, V., & Lee, F. (2006, January). Working women: Integration of conflicting professional and gender identities. Poster session presented at the meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.

• Sacharin, V. (2005, May). Does (identity) harmony matter for women in business? In V. Sacharin (Chair), Identity integration of biculturals and business women: Precursors, underlying mechanisms, and outcomes. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA.

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