ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates different experiences of expressed emotions by ingroup and outgroup members, and divergent perceptions of the ingroup's and outgroups emotions. It reviews the importance of the expressing and decoding of emotions in intergroup research and reports empirical evidence concerning the divergent subjective experiences of expressed emotions. Dijker's study on emotions elicited by foreigners in the Netherlands, Yabar gathered the emotions and action tendencies that were stereotypic of Belgians and Maghrebis. One of the reasons for this choice concerned the practical implications of emotional misunderstandings in intergroup encounters. The role of expressing and decoding emotions is crucial for the dynamics involving not only one partner but the two partners the dominant and the dominated ones. Expressing and decoding emotions may harm intergroup relations as well as facilitate them. One of our studies showed how the context of expressing emotions contributed to better understanding between groups.
