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Emotionally Intelligent Behavior in Organizations: When Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity Meet Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-04-22 Zehavit Levitats, Zorana Ivcevic, Marc Brackett
Drawing on the ability, motivation, and opportunity framework ( Boxall & Purcell, 2011 ), we describe individuals’ emotionally intelligent behavior (EIB) in organizations as emerging from the interaction of emotional intelligence (EI) ability, motivation for EIB, and the opportunity to engage in such behavior at work. EI ability encompasses the capacity to perceive, use, understand, and regulate emotions
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Philosophical Insights for a Science of Long-Term Affect Dynamics Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-03-18 Raamy Majeed
Emotions in scientific research are typically portrayed as short-lived responses or dispositions to manifest such responses. Some philosophers have argued that this fails to capture long-term emotions (e.g., love, hate, and grief). This article examines whether the emerging field of affect dynamics (or emotion dynamics), which studies how emotions fluctuate over time, can address the philosophical
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A Person-Specific Emotion Regulation Flexibility Framework: Taking an Integrative Approach Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-03-14 Kiran Kaur, Monika Lohani, Paula Williams, Anu Asnaani
Despite advances in understanding emotion regulation (ER) flexibility (e.g., flexibly using ER strategies to meet situational demands), there is heterogeneity in conceptualizations. To address this, we provide a unifying operationalization for ER flexibility and a person-specific ER flexibility framework. We define ER flexibility as the ability to continuously monitor the effectiveness of chosen ER
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Contradictions at the Heart of Compassion Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-03-12 Corey G. Steiner
I argue that compassion entails the experience of feelings that lie in tension with one another. Specifically, I argue that to be compassionate is to simultaneously identify with and feel separated from the regarded individual, and it is to feel empowered in being needed while also feeling powerless to prevent the other's suffering. Previous studies have typically only emphasized one side or the other
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Nostalgia for the Past, Present and Future Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-28 Saulius Geniusas
In my response to the three commentaries, I emphasize the importance of philosophical reflections on nostalgia, and especially those that are oriented phenomenologically. I criticize the methodological commitments that underlie the approach taken by Constantine Sedikides and Tim Wildschut as well as their contention that nostalgia for the past is the only legitimate form of nostalgia. I reflect on
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Navigating the Temporal Veil of Nostalgia: Playing the Boundary Without Crossing it Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-27 James Morley
Remarking on Geniusas’ phenomenological explication of nostalgia, I review nostalgia as a form of daydreaming but with its own unique constituent of wider temporal horizons. Also, I concur with Geniusas’ observation that nostalgia is about a boundary of impossibility whereas most other forms of daydreaming offer possibility. I then contrast two modes of nostalgia, fulling nostalgia that playfully,
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Comment: A New Typology of Nostalgia: Its Promise and a Limitation Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Kathleen Marie Higgins
This commentary considers some applications of the typology of nostalgia proposed by Saulius Geniusas. The typology can illuminate our understanding of existential feelings of temporal malaise, perturbations of temporal experience in grief, and common experiences of letdown and resistance to the passage of time. It can also help in diagnosing various obstacles to mindfulness. However, the typology
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Shame is Personal, Not Ontological Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Madeleine Shield
Ontological accounts of shame claim that the emotion has to do with our basic human vulnerability: on this view, one is ashamed over having had this vulnerability exposed before others. Against this view, I argue that it is not our vulnerable dependency on others itself which causes us to feel ashamed, but our rejection in the face of such vulnerability. Shame is not the result of simply being looked
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Emotion in Nonverbal Communication: Comparing Animal and Human Vocalizations and Human Text Messages Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 T. Gruber, E. F. Briefer, A. Grütter, A. Xanthos, D. Grandjean, M. B. Manser, S. Frühholz
Humans and other animals communicate a large quantity of information vocally through nonverbal means. Here, we review the domains of animal vocalizations, human nonverbal vocal communication and computer-mediated communication (CMC), under the common thread of emotion, which, we suggest, connects them as a dimension of all these types of communication. After reviewing the use of emotions across domains
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Arousal: Reports of Its Demise May Be Premature Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Julian F. Thayer, Bruce H. Friedman
The concept of general arousal has a long history in emotion research. However, the concept is more complex and nuanced than is generally appreciated. In this comment, we note some of the early conceptualizations of arousal and how they might comport with more modern representations of the construct. Importantly, we show how modern conceptualizations which incorporate the physiological complexity of
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Affective Influences on the Intensity of Mental Effort: 25 Years of Programmatic Research Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-08 Guido H. E. Gendolla
This article highlights the systematic impact of experienced and implicit affect on the intensity of mental effort. The key argument is that both consciously experienced affect and implicitly activated affect knowledge can influence responses in the cardiovascular system reflecting effort intensity by informing individuals about task demand—the key variable determining resource mobilization. According
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The Need for New Perspectives on Arousal in Emotion Theory Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Karen E. Smith, Seth D. Pollak
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Yearning for the Irretrievable: Nostalgia and Time Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Saulius Geniusas
Situating phenomenological reflections on nostalgia within a historical context, I argue that Kant's temporalization of nostalgia remains incomplete. Bringing into question the widespread assumption that the object of nostalgia must be the past, I argue that nostalgia can be spoken of in three fundamental ways: as nostalgia for the past, for the present, and for the future. I further clarify the relation
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Curiosity and the Regulation of Affective Memory Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Joy Ham, Vishnu P. Murty, Chelsea Helion
We propose a cognitive and neurobiological model by which curiosity regulates affective memory, by positively biasing memory encoding through the promotion of emotion regulation. We begin with a brief overview of curiosity's observed emotional effects. Then we introduce three prominent models of affective memory encoding to suggest that the dopaminergic modulation of encoding associated with curiosity
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On the Nature of Nostalgia: A Psychological Perspective Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-09 Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut
We raise issues about the philosophical claims made in this article regarding the nature of nostalgia. Drawing on psychological research, we contend that nostalgia is rooted in memory rather than time, is directed toward specific objects rather than being object-free, is predominantly positive rather than a form of mourning, and is focused on the past rather than the present or future.
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Is “Arousal,” as a Scientific Concept, Worse than Useless? Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-09 David Sander
This paper discusses (i) the usefulness and (ii) the clarity of the concept of arousal. In discussing its usefulness, I argue that we can explain some key “arousal effects” without relying on the concept of arousal. To do so, I consider the role of the appraisal of affective relevance as a process mainly subserved by the amygdala and explaining emotional effects on attention, memory, and learning.
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Arousal May Not Be Anything to Get Excited About Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-05 Karen E. Smith, Kristina Woodard, Seth D. Pollak
The idea of arousal as a non-specific state of activation has been implicated as an explanatory factor for many aspects of human behavior, ranging from emotional experiences to learning and memory. Critiques of this concept have highlighted that arousal is ambiguous and evidence for its role in emotion is mixed. However, contemporary emotion theories and empirical research continue to incorporate the
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The Nature of Horror Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-12-05 David C. Witherington, Naila V. deCruz-Dixon
Given its clinical significance, horror should occupy a prominent place within emotion theory. However, conceptualizations of horror within psychological science are relatively underdeveloped and conceptually confused. Through conceptual analysis of the disparate literature on the emotion, we seek to establish horror as a qualitatively distinct mode of engagement with the world and to remedy its o
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Resolving Sequential Self-Control Dilemmas: The Role of Pride and Guilt Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-28 Julia Storch, Jing Wan, Koert van Ittersum
Extant evidence suggests that the two self-conscious emotions pride and guilt guide people's behavior in the context of self-control dilemmas. Pride and guilt are both outcomes of and antecedents to how people resolve self-control dilemmas. However, evidence on how pride and guilt motivate individuals to exert self-control is inconsistent. Based on the Expectancy Value Theory, we propose a conceptual
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From Emotional Labour to Affectual Bodies: Moving Towards an ‘Affective Ethnography’ of the Criminal Court Space Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Anna Carline, Clare Gunby, Vanessa Munro, Yvette Tinsley, Kirsty Duncanson, Heather Flowe
Participation in, and attendance at, court often positions people amid a charged emotional environment, where the evidence frequently involves distressing accounts and the stakes of decision-making are high. Research has explored the impact of this environment on various court protagonists. What this research has failed to consider in detail, however, are the ways in which such vectors of emotional
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Exploring Emotions Through Co-speech Gestures: The Caveats and New Directions Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Zeynep Aslan, Demet Özer, Tilbe Göksun
Co-speech hand gestures offer a rich avenue for research into studying emotion communication because they serve as both prominent expressive bodily cues and an integral part of language. Despite such a strategic relevance, gesture-speech integration and interaction have received less research focus on its emotional function compared to its cognitive function. This review aims to shed light on the current
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Affect and Impact Neglect in Sustainable Decision-Making Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Erkin Asutay, Hulda Karlsson, Daniel Västfjäll
In a recent special section on Sustainability and Emotion, Schneider and van der Linden present how sustainability science could benefit from affective science to address important unanswered questions about the psychological and affective antecedents of people's engagement in relatively high-impact sustainable behaviors. Here, we underline the importance of combining the motivational role of positive
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Revisiting “The Malicious Serpent”: Phylogenetically Threatening Stimulus Marked in the Human Brain Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Luiz Biondi, Nuno Gomes, Rafael S. Maior, Sandra C. Soares
Twenty years ago, Öhman and Mineka's publication “The Malicious Serpent” emphasized the selective pressure ancestral reptiles would have on early mammals’ visual system, specifically the development of a set of subcortical structures that would provide snake-like images privileged access to the amygdala. This process would occur automatically and allows for quick defensive reactions. Based on criticisms
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Affective Ruptures: A Pragmatist Approach Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Giacomo Lampredi
This article defines a possible pragmatist approach to the sociology of emotions by discussing and delimiting the concept of “affective rupture.” According to this approach, emotions emerge from the breaking of habits in the face of the transformation of situations, producing reflexivity and relational adjustments. The pragmatist approach problematizes the “rhythm” of emotions, made up of ruptures
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Music as an Evolved Tool for Socio-Affective Fiction. Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Caitlyn Trevor,Sascha Frühholz
The question of why music evolved has been contemplated and debated for centuries across multiple disciplines. While many theories have been posited, they still do not fully answer the question of why humans began making music. Adding to the effort to solve this mystery, we propose the socio-affective fiction (SAF) hypothesis. Humans have a unique biological need for emotion regulation strengthening
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Emotion Regulation Tactics: A Key to Understanding Age (and Other Between- and Within-Person) Differences in Emotion Regulation Preference and Effectiveness. Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Derek M Isaacowitz,Hannah E Wolfe
Older adults report high emotional well-being, but age-comparative studies of emotion regulation strategies have not identified systematic age differences. We propose that emotion regulation tactics may be more promising. Emotion regulation tactics involve strategy implementation in a specific situation, and have features shared across strategies involving positive or negative elements (objects/thoughts)
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Empathy & Literature Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 A. E. Denham
There is a long tradition in philosophy and literary theory defending the view that engagement with literature promotes readers’ empathy. Until the last century, few of the empirical claims adduced in that tradition were investigated experimentally. Recent work in psychology and neuropsychology has now shed new light on the interplay of empathy and literature. This article surveys the experimental
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Don’t Be Too Good at Reading Other People's Minds Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Lisa Zunshine
Attribution of mental states is fundamental to our engagement with fiction. Crucially, its social content depends on mental states recursively “embedded” within each other; for instance, when a person doesn’t want other people to know about her intentions. Given that some characters seem to be consistently capable of embedding mental states on a higher level than others, this essay reviews factors
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Introduction to the Special Issue: “Literature and Emotion” Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Bradley J. Irish
This introduces the special issue “Literature and Emotion.”
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Affect Theory and Literary Criticism Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Stephen Ahern
The “affective turn” is by now long established, part of a wider surge of interest in emotion playing out in a range of disciplines. In literary studies, the conversation about how affect theory might help us to interpret literature is still emerging. The goal of the present discussion is to provide a critical overview of work by scholars who draw on the insights of recent theory to read literary texts
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Fairness, Hierarchy, and Moral Rationalization, or What's Wrong With Paradise Lost? Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Patrick Colm Hogan
Literature and Moral Feeling argued that ethics is best understood as a constraint on egocentric self-interest. That constraint is specified variously by groups or individuals who set parameters differently within common ethical principles, and who use a range of emotion-guided narrative genres to imagine and evaluate possible actions. Though it covers many ethical concerns (collectively termed “morality”)
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Less Is More: How the Language of Fiction Fosters Emotion Recognition Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Emanuele Castano
Stories, in pictorial format, orally narrated, and later on as narrative texts, have played a key role in human evolution and to this day continue to surreptitiously teach us things and skills. In recent decades, psychologists and cognitive scientists have begun documenting the role of stories, and particularly fiction, in refining our sociocognitive skills. In this essay, I focus specifically on how
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Narrating Anger Appropriately: Implications for Narrative Form and Successful Coping Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Tilmann Habermas, Stephan Bongard
We propose that emotion psychology would significantly gain from including narrative(s) and the conversational negotiation of appropriateness. Using the example of anger, we argue that narrators need to construct plausible narratives of emotional events to achieve validating responses by listeners. We argue first that narrators attempt to demonstrate that the appraisal conditions for their emotion
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Using Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory to Explain Individual Differences in the Appraisal of Problem-Focused Coping Potential Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Olga Poluektova, Arvid Kappas, Craig A. Smith
Appraisal theory assumes that the individual variability of emotional reactions to the same situation is due to individual differences in appraisal. However, the question of how interindividual dif...
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Incorporating Consciousness into an Understanding of Emotion and Nonverbal Behavior Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 David Matsumoto, Matthew Wilson
We posit a model of emotion and nonverbal behavior (NVB) that incorporates a perspective of consciousness. We leverage an understanding of the neural pathways innervating NVB to describe the comple...
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Somatovisceral Influences on Emotional Development Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Kelly E. Faig, Karen E. Smith, Stephanie J. Dimitroff
Frameworks of emotional development have tended to focus on how environmental factors shape children's emotion understanding. However, individual experiences of emotion represent a complex interpla...
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Room for Feelings: A “Working Memory” Account of Affective Processing Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Lotte F. van Dillen, Wilhelm Hofmann
In the past decades, affective science has overwhelmingly demonstrated the unique properties of affective information to bias our attention, memory, and decisions. At the same time, accumulating ev...
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Skin Complexion and the Blush Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 W. Raymond Crozier
The implications of variation in skin pigmentation for the blush have attracted discussion for centuries. Two long-standing positions are identified. First, the blush has been identified with shame...
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How Awe Shaped Us: An Evolutionary Perspective Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Matthew T. Richesin, Debora R. Baldwin
Research shows the experience of awe is associated with a variety of benefits ranging from increased well-being and prosocial behavior to enhanced cognition. The adaptive purpose of awe, however, i...
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Specificity Versus Generality: A Meta-Analytic Review Of The Association Between Trait Disgust Sensitivity And Moral Judgment Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Michael R. Donner, Shaheed Azaad, Garth A. Warren, Simon M. Laham
Disgust seems to play an important role in moral judgment. However, it is unclear whether the role of disgust in moral judgment is limited to certain kinds of moral domains (versus many) and/or cer...
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Analysis and Classification of Music-Induced States of Sadness Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Oliver Herdson, Tuomas Eerola, Amir-Homayoun Javadi
The enjoyment and pleasure derived from sad music has sparked fascination among researchers due to its seemingly paradoxical nature in producing positive affect. Research is yet to develop a compre...
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What is Sympathy? Understanding the Structure of Other-Oriented Emotions Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Elodie Malbois
Sympathy (empathic concern) is mainly understood as a feeling for another and is often contrasted with empathy—a feeling with another. However, it is not clear what feeling for another means and wh...
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Parent–Child Attachment and Dynamic Emotion Regulation: A Systematic Review Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Carli A. Obeldobel, Laura E. Brumariu, Kathryn A. Kerns
Although there is evidence parent–child attachment security is associated with trait-like emotion indices, trait perspectives do not fully capture children's responses to context, an important emot...
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Emotional Feelings: Evaluative Perceptions or Position-Takings? Introduction to the Special Section Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Rainer Reisenzein, Philipp Schmidt
This special section of Emotion Review is devoted to the discussion of a recent philosophical emotion theory, the theory of emotions as affective position-takings (Jean Moritz Müller, The World-Dir...
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Apprehending Value, Position-Taking and the Manifest Image of Emotion: Responses to Commentators Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Jean Moritz Müller
This article clarifies and defends my view of emotional feeling in response to the commentaries by Ronnie de Sousa, Rick Furtak, Agnes Moors, Kevin Mulligan, Rainer Reisenzein and Philipp Schmidt. ...
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The Epistemological Dimension of Emotional Feeling and Other Affective Phenomena Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Philipp Schmidt
Müller's position-taking view of emotions takes issue with the widely endorsed philosophical notion that emotional feelings are a form of consciousness in which we become acquainted with the evalua...
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Commentary: Connecting Müller's Philosophical Position-Taking Theory of Emotional Feelings to Mechanistic Emotion Theories in Psychology Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Agnes Moors
Müller proposes a position-taking theory to account for the manifest image of emotional feelings as “feelings towards”. He reduces the process of position-taking to goal-based construal, which is a...
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Emotions as Affective Position-Takings and as Nonconceptual Meta-Representations: A Comparison Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Rainer Reisenzein
The theory of emotions as affective position-takings (PT) is investigated from the perspective of a computational model of the belief-desire theory of emotions (CBDTE) proposed by the author. Both ...
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Positive Cognitive Reappraisal in Stress Resilience, Mental Health, and Well-Being: A Comprehensive Systematic Review Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Antje Riepenhausen, Carolin Wackerhagen, Zala C. Reppmann, Hans-Christian Deter, Raffael Kalisch, Ilya M. Veer, Henrik Walter
Stress-related psychopathology is on the rise, and there is a pressing need for improved prevention strategies. Positive appraisal style, the tendency to appraise potentially threatening situations...
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The Architecture of Happiness Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Tim Lomas, Meike Bartels, Margot Van De Weijer, Michael Pluess, Jeffrey Hanson, Tyler J. VanderWeele
Happiness is an increasingly prominent topic of interest across academia. However, relatively little attention has been paid to how it is created, especially not in a multidimensional sense. By ‘cr...
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Situated Affectivity and Mind Shaping: Lessons from Social Psychology* Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Sven Walter, Achim Stephan
Proponents of situated affectivity hold that “tools for feeling” are just as characteristic of the human condition as are “tools for thinking” or tools for carpentry. An agent’s affective life, the...
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Authors Reply: Empathy and Creativity: Dangers of the Methodological Tail Wagging the Conceptual Dog Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Brett A. Murphy, Sara B. Algoe
The three commentaries on “Why We Should Reject the Restrictive Isomorphic Matching (RIM) Definition of Empathy” mostly concurred with our critique of that widely adopted definition of empathy. Yet...
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Comment: Empathy as a Flexible and Fundamentally Interpersonal Phenomenon: Comment on “Why We Should Reject the Restrictive Isomorphic Matching Definition of Empathy” Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Alexandra Main
I strongly agree with the criticisms of the restrictive isomorphic matching (RIM) definition of empathy made by Murphy, Lilienfeld, and Algoe (2022), and largely agree with their conceptualization ...
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Getting our Affect Together: Shared Representations as the Core of Empathy Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Abigail A. Marsh
Empathy is a construct that is notoriously difficult to define. Murphy and colleagues argue for leaning into the construct's inherent fuzziness and reverting to what they term a classical definition informed by the observations of philosophers and clinicians: as a dynamic, “unfolding process of imaginatively experiencing the subjective consciousness of another person, sensing, understanding, and structuring
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The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Review Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Maciej Behnke, Magdalena Pietruch, Patrycja Chwiłkowska, Eliza Wessel, Lukasz D. Kaczmarek, Mark Assink, James J. Gross
The undoing hypothesis proposes that positive emotions serve to undo sympathetic arousal related to negative emotions and stress. However, a recent qualitative review challenged the undoing effect by presenting conflicting results. To address this issue quantitatively, we conducted a meta-analytic review of 16 studies (N = 1,220; 72 effect sizes) measuring sympathetic recovery during elicited positive
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Caring as the Default of Empathic Direct Perception Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Khen Lampert
The phenomenological understanding of empathy as the direct experiencing of the mental states (feelings, intentions, moods) of others eschews the identification of empathy with caring. At the same time, it leaves open the possibility of sadistic pleasure, indifference, or malice as consequences of empathic experience.In this paper, I intend to defend the place of caring as an inseparable part of the
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The Feelings of Goals Hypothesis: Emotional Feelings are Non-Conceptual, Non-Motoric Representations of Goals Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Assaf Kron, Assaf Weksler
This paper proposes and develops the feelings of goals hypothesis (FGH). It has two aims: first, to describe the evolutionary function of emotional feelings (EFs), and second, to describe the content and the format of EFs. According to FGH, the evolutionary function of EFs is to enable motoric flexibility. Specifically, EFs are a component of a psychological mechanism that permits differential motoric
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Epistemic Feelings are Affective Experiences Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Slawa Loev
This paper develops the claim that epistemic feelings are affective experiences. To establish some diagnostic criteria, characteristic features of affective experiences are outlined: valence and arousal. Then, in order to pave the way for showing that epistemic feelings have said features, an initial challenge coming from introspection is addressed. Next, the paper turns to empirical findings showing
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Why we Should Reject the Restrictive Isomorphic Matching Definition of Empathy Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Brett A. Murphy, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Sara B. Algoe
A growing cadre of influential scholars has converged on a circumscribed definition of empathy as restricted only to feeling the same emotion that one perceives another is feeling. We argue that this restrictive isomorphic matching (RIM) definition is deeply problematic because (1) it deviates dramatically from traditional conceptualizations of empathy and unmoors the construct from generations of
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Transindividual Affect: Gilbert Simondon's Contribution to a Posthumanist Theory of Emotions Emotion Review (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Claudio Celis Bueno, Claudia Schettini
The aim of this article is to explore how some aspects of Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation may contribute to outlining a posthumanist theory of emotions. According to Simondon, the relation between affection and emotion is a key case study for examining the transindividual character of psychosocial individuation. Affection and emotion appear to him not as a binary opposition, but as an