Principle Investigators: Prof. Dr. Anne Frenzel, University of Munich, Germany & Prof. Dr. Lia Daniels, University of Alberta, Canada

Feeling is a defining part of being human. Much has been written and researched about what determines human emotional experiences. This research has revealed that culture has a considerable impact on emotions. For example, the emotion of shame is much more prominent, and acceptable, in Eastern cultures, while the emotion of anger seems to be a “Western" emotion. 

Research has also identified the important role of context for emotional experiences. For example, we feel differently depending on whether we are in a leisure social situation with close others, whether we are in an achievement situation where success or failure are lurking, or whether we are in a professional situation.

This project focuses on one profession in particular: The teaching job. This profession has long been targeted by researchers focusing on well- and ill-being because teaching, like other caring jobs, is charged with intense social interactions, thus abound with emotional experiences, and determined by strong emotion rules. Teachers play a decisive role in shaping societies' future generations worldwide, thus solid scientific insight into their professional emotions and related functioning is of high global importance. 

The Many Teachers Emotions Project sets out to explore human emotions at the crossing of professional context and culture. It seeks to find out “what it feels to feel” for teachers, worldwide, how intensely and frequently they report to experience and express a selected group of discrete emotions, how they regulate them, and how appropriate it is for them to experience and express them in the classroom.

The Many Teachers Emotions Project is a “Many” Project, modeling off existing Big Team Science which has seen its start in view of the replication crisis in Psychology, with the Many Labs Project.

Contact: lia.daniels@ualberta.ca OR frenzel@psy.lmu.de