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Empathy as a Flexible and Fundamentally Interpersonal Phenomenon: Comment on “Why we Should Reject the Restrictive Isomorphic Matching Definition of Empathy” Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Alexandra Main
I strongly agree with the AUTHORS’ criticisms of the restrictive isomorphic (RIM) definition of empathy and largely agree with their conceptualization of empathy as a dynamic process best defined by its function. In this commentary, I extend this argument by emphasizing the relational, interpersonal aspects of empathy. It is my view that in order to understand the functions of empathy, we must take
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Getting our Affect Together: Shared Representations as the Core of Empathy Emotion Review (IF 7.345) 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 7.345) 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 7.345) 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 7.345) 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 7.345) 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 7.345) 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 7.345) 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
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Can We Model What an Emotion Is? Comment on Suri & Gross (2022) Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Heather C. Lench, Noah T. Reed
The question “what is emotion?” has long been at the core of theoretical debates. The IAC-E is a useful framework for understanding relationships among responses in emotional situations. However, this approach cannot address the nature of emotion. Researchers determine what counts as emotion in the IAC-E, and this decision impacts the relationships detected and inferences made. The assumptions of researchers
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Why a Connectionist Perspective on Emotion is Helpful Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Gaurav Suri, James J. Gross
To make progress related to long-standing questions related to the nature of emotion, we offer the Interactive Activation and Competition framework for Emotion (IAC-E). The IAC-E is not another conventional theory of emotion. Rather, it offers a neural-network-based, algorithmic account of how emotion instances and categories arise. Our approach suggests that there need not be a contradiction between
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Old Wine in New Bags—Suri and Gross's Connectionist Theory of Emotion is Another Type of Network Theory Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Agnes Moors
Suri and Gross's 2022 connectionist emotion theory can be considered as one version of a family of theories known as network theories of emotion. It presents similarities and differences with older versions of network theories. Like previous network theories and several other traditional emotion theories, however, the connectionist theory remains a reactive theory. The class of reactive theories can
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Care, Attachments and Concerns Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Kevin Mulligan
Müller's account of the way episodic emotions function depends on a contrast between these and what he calls cares, concerns and attachments and the claim that the latter are in several respects prior to the former. The account seems to attribute no normative features to the latter. But this is implausible. If a preference for liberty over social justice is a concern, it is justified if liberty really
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What non-Humans Can Teach us about the Role of Emotions in Cultural Evolution Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Guillaume Dezecache, Christine Sievers, Thibaud Gruber
The role emotions play in the dynamics of cultural phenomena has long been neglected. The collection of articles recently published in Emotion Review provides an important first step into this necessary endeavor. In this commentary, we discuss this contribution by emphasizing the role epistemological parsimony should play in the future of this research agenda. The cultural behavior and emotions of
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The World-Directedness of Emotional Feeling: Affective Intentionality and Position-Taking Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Jean Moritz Müller
This article is a précis of my 2019 monograph The World-Directedness of Emotional Feeling: On Affect and Intentionality. The book engages with a growing trend of philosophical thinking according to which the felt dimension and the intentionality of emotion are unified. While sympathetic to the general approach, I argue for a reconceptualization of the form of intentionality that emotional feelings
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Emotion, Action, and Passivity: A Commentary on Müller Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Rick Anthony Furtak
According to Jean Moritz Müller's The world-directedness of emotional feeling, the reason why emotions do not apprehend or disclose value is that one cannot apprehend what one has already apprehended: the value in question, he claims, is apprehended prior to the emotional feeling. Emotions, then, should not be conceived as apprehending value since they already presuppose awareness of it. I can be acquainted
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Who Needs Values When We Have Valuing? Comments on Jean Moritz Müller, The World-Directedness of Emotional Feeling Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Ronald de Sousa
Müller argues that the perceptual or “Axiological Receptivity” (AR) model of emotions is incoherent, because it requires an emotion to apprehend and respond to its formal object at the same time. He defends a contrasting view of emotions as “Position-Takings" (PT) towards “formal objects”, aspects of an emotion's target pertinent to the subject's concerns. I first cast doubt on the cogency of Müller's
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What is an Emotion? A Connectionist Perspective Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Gaurav Suri, James J. Gross
Researchers often disagree as to whether emotions are largely consistent across people and over time, or whether they are variable. They also disagree as to whether emotions are initiated by appraisals, or whether they may be initiated in diverse ways. We draw upon Parallel-Distributed-Processing to offer an algorithmic account in which features of an emotion instance are bi-directionally connected
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Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Positive Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Review Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Maciej Behnke, Sylvia D. Kreibig, Lukasz D. Kaczmarek, Mark Assink, James J. Gross
Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity is a fundamental component of emotional responding. It is not clear, however, whether positive emotional states are associated with differential ANS reactivity. To address this issue, we conducted a meta-analytic review of 120 articles (686 effect sizes, total N = 6,546), measuring ANS activity during 11 elicited positive emotions, namely amusement, attachment
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Adopting Affective Science in Composition Studies: A Literature Review Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Jordan C. V. Taylor
This article reviews literature in composition studies since affective science's emergence in the 1980s. It focuses on composition studies’ history of adopting findings and theories from affective science, and distinguishes trends in how the field applies those elements in theoretical versus pedagogical contexts. While composition studies’ adoption of affective science in its theorizing has helped
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Towards a Taxonomy of Collective Emotions Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Gerhard Thonhauser
This paper distinguishes collective emotions from other phenomena pertaining to the social and interactive nature of emotion and proposes a taxonomy of different types of collective emotion. First, it emphasizes the distinction between collective emotions as affective experiences and underpinning mechanisms. Second, it elaborates on other types of affective experience, namely the social sharing of
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Presenting KAPODI – The Searchable Database of Emotional Stimuli Sets Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Kathrin Diconne, Georgios K. Kountouriotis, Aspasia E. Paltoglou, Andrew Parker, Thomas J. Hostler
Emotional stimuli such as images, words, or video clips are often used in studies researching emotion. New sets are continuously being published, creating an immense number of available sets and complicating the task for researchers who are looking for suitable stimuli. This paper presents the KAPODI-database of emotional stimuli sets that are freely available or available upon request. Over 45 aspects
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Meta-Analysis of the Associations Among Constructs of Intrapersonal Emotion Knowledge Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Juhyun Park, Xinyi Zhan, Kristin Naragon- Gainey
To better define the boundaries of conceptually overlapping constructs of intrapersonal emotion knowledge (EK), we examined meta-analytic correlations among five intrapersonal EK-related constructs (affect labelling, alexithymia, emotional awareness, emotional clarity, emotion differentiation) and attention to emotion. Affect labelling, alexithymia, and emotional clarity were strongly associated, and
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The Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Mark Miller, Julian Kiverstein, Erik Rietveld
We offer an account of mental health and well-being using the predictive processing framework (PPF). According to this framework, the difference between mental health and psychopathology can be located in the goodness of the predictive model as a regulator of action. What is crucial for avoiding the rigid patterns of thinking, feeling and acting associated with psychopathology is the regulation of
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Understanding Depressive Feelings as Situated Affections Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Güler Cansu Ağören
Phenomenologists define social impairments as key aspects of depression and argue that depression is irreducible to the individual. In this article I aim to further elaborate this non-reductionist notion of depression by claiming that depression not only corresponds to an impaired experience of social relations, but also arises from a socially impaired world. To pursue this goal, I will challenge the
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The Psychological Construction of Emotion – A Non-Essentialist Philosophy of Science Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Peter Zachar
Advocates for the psychological construction of emotion view themselves as articulating a non-essentialist alternative to basic emotion theory's essentialist notion of affect programs. Psychological constructionists have also argued that holding essentialist assumptions about emotions engenders misconceptions about the psychological constructionist viewpoint. If so, it is important to understand what
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“A Hand of Ivory”: Moving Objects in Psellos’ Oration for his Daughter Styliane. A Case-Study Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Aglae Pizzone
This paper takes its cue from the recent interest in materiality and “things” in the field of Byzantine studies, to explore the role of objects in evoking being moved. First, it advances a new model to explain the relationship between being moved and affordances. Second, it focuses on a specific case study, that is Michael Psellos’ funeral oration for his daughter Styliane (1054), who died of smallpox
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Being Moved: Motion and Emotion in Classical Antiquity and Today Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-09-27 David Konstan
Efforts to identify in the expression “being moved” a new emotion have found a hospitable environment in the recent turn to the body in emotion and cognitive studies, exemplified herein affect theory, with a particular focus on the effects of music. Although classical Greek and Latin had comparable expressions, however, they did not single out a specific emotion. Given that music played an important
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Introduction to Special Section: On Being Moved. A Cross-Cultural Approach Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-09-20 Pia Campeggiani
At first blush, “being moved” is nothing more than a generic expression we use to account for states of emotional arousal. These can be as diverse as joy and sorrow, or pity and admiration, and are often generic themselves, which is why we do not need nor care to be more specific when we talk about them. On closer inspection, however, things are not so simple. For a start, there seem to be some emotional
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Being Moved by Nature in the Anthropocene: On the Limits of the Ecological Sublime Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Marco Caracciolo
According to recent accounts, we experience the emotion of “being moved” when a situation brings into play our core values. What are the core values evoked by nonhuman landscapes, however, particularly as the distinction between man-made and natural environments becomes increasingly blurry in the so-called Anthropocene? That is the central question tackled by this article. I start by rethinking the
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Links Between Musicality and Vocal Emotion Perception Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Christine Nussbaum, Stefan R. Schweinberger
Links between musicality and vocal emotion perception skills have only recently emerged as a focus of study. Here we review current evidence for or against such links. Based on a systematic literature search, we identified 33 studies that addressed either (a) vocal emotion perception in musicians and nonmusicians, (b) vocal emotion perception in individuals with congenital amusia, (c) the role of individual
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Horror Films and Grief Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Becky Millar, Jonny Lee
Many of the most popular and critically acclaimed horror films feature grief as a central theme. This article argues that horror films are especially suited to portraying and communicating the phenomenology of grief. We explore two overlapping claims. First, horror is well suited to represent the experience of grief, in particular because the disruptive effects of horror “monsters” on protagonists
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The Missing Link in Early Emotional Processing Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Luis Carretié, Raghunandan K. Yadav, Constantino Méndez-Bértolo
Initial evaluation structures (IESs) currently proposed as the earliest detectors of affective stimuli (e.g., amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, or insula) are high-order structures (a) whose response latency cannot account for the first visual cortex emotion-related response (~80 ms), and (b) lack the necessary infrastructure to locally analyze the visual features that define emotional stimuli. Several
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The Sympathetic Plot, Its Psychological Origins, and Implications for the Evolution of Fiction Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Manvir Singh
The sympathetic plot—featuring a goal-directed protagonist who confronts obstacles, overcomes them, and wins rewards—is ubiquitous. Here, I propose that it recurs because it entertains, engaging two sets of psychological mechanisms. First, it triggers mechanisms for learning about obstacles and how to overcome them. It builds interest by confronting a protagonist with a problem and induces satisfaction
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Does Music Training Improve Emotion Recognition Abilities? A Critical Review Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-06-21 Marta Martins, Ana P. Pinheiro, César F. Lima
There is widespread interest in the possibility that music training enhances nonmusical abilities. This possibility has been examined primarily for speech perception and domain-general abilities such as IQ. Although social and emotional processes are central to many musical activities, transfer from music training to socioemotional skills remains underexplored. Here we synthesize results from studies
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Operationalizing the Relation Between Affect and Cognition With the Somatic Transform Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Neil J. MacKinnon, Jesse Hoey
This article introduces the somatic transform that operationalizes the relation between affect and cognition at the psychological level of analysis by capitalizing on the relation between the cognitive-denotative and affective-connotative meaning of concepts as measured with semantic differential rating scales. Following discussion of levels of analysis, the importance of language at the psychological
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The Complicated Relationship Between the Dark Triad and Emotional Intelligence: A Systematic Review Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-05-31 Sarah A. Walker, Kit S. Double, Damian P. Birney
The study of emotional intelligence (EI) and its relationship with the dark triad has emerged as a popular research area. However, the complex nature of the dark triad and EI, including multiple measures for assessment, has led to inconsistent findings. A systematic review was conducted to focus on the multifaceted nature of the dark triad traits. Included studies must have been conducted with adult
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Editorial Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 W. Gerrod Parrott
Starting with this issue, I become the sole Editor-in-Chief of Emotion Review. For the past 3 years I have shared this position with Yulia Chentsova-Dutton. I would like to express my gratitude for all that she has contributed to this journal as well as for the pleasure of our collaboration. For the first 2 of those years, our collaboration was extensive and face-to-face—there was no global pandemic
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Cultivating Disgust: Prospects and Moral Implications Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Charlie Kurth
Is disgust morally valuable? The answer to that question turns, in large part, on what we can do to shape disgust for the better. But this cultivation question has received surprisingly little attention in philosophical debates. To address this deficiency, this article examines empirical work on disgust and emotion regulation. This research reveals that while we can exert some control over how we experience
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Comment: Moving (Further) Beyond Private Experience: On the Radicalization of the Social Approach to Emotions and the Emancipation of Verbal Emotional Expressions Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Gerben A. van Kleef
Emotions have traditionally been viewed as intrapersonal phenomena. Over the past decades, theory and research have shifted toward a more social perspective that emphasizes the role of emotional expressions in coordinating social interaction. I provide a brief history of this ongoing paradigm shift, which reveals two critical developments. The first concerns a continuing shift in emphasis on the social-communicative
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Comment: Emotions as Relational Orientations: Accounting for Culture and Social Structure Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Christian von Scheve
The present contribution provides a constructive criticism of Brian Parkinson’s “Heart to Heart: A Relation-Alignment Approach to Emotion’s Social Effects.” I outline a number of points in Parkinson’s approach that I find particularly useful from a sociological perspective on emotions and provide suggestions for further extending his account. In doing so, I concentrate on issues regarding the social
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Author Reply: Aligning Social Relations With Faces, Words, and Emotions Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Brian Parkinson
How do facial movements and verbal statements relate to emotional processes? A familiar answer is that the primary phenomenon is an internally located emotion that may then get expressed on the face and represented in words. In this view, emotion’s social functions and effects are indirect consequences of prior intrapsychic states or events. By contrast, my target article argued that facial and verbal
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Can Less Ever Be More? A Model of Emotion Regulation Repertoire of Social Support (ERROSS) Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Eva-Maria Stelzer, Mary-Frances O’Connor
Do people really fare better if they can rely on many social ties? Research suggests that benefits of interpersonal emotion regulation (ER) can be derived from both large and small social networks. Building on the intrapersonal regulatory flexibility model, we propose the emotion regulation repertoire of social support (ERROSS) model that views effective socioemotional support as the combination of
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Heart to Heart: A Relation-Alignment Approach to Emotion’s Social Effects Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-02-21 Brian Parkinson
This article integrates arguments and evidence from my 2019 monograph Heart to Heart: How Your Emotions Affect Other People. The central claim is that emotions operate as processes of relation alignment that produce convergence, complementarity, or conflict between two or more people’s orientations to objects. In some cases, relation alignment involves strategic presentation of emotional information
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Emotions as Overlapping Causal Networks of Emotion Components: Implications and Methodological Approaches Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Jens Lange, Janis H. Zickfeld
A widespread perspective describes emotions as distinct categories bridged by fuzzy boundaries, indicating that emotions are distinct and dimensional at the same time. Theoretical and methodological approaches to this perspective still need further development. We conceptualize emotions as overlapping networks of causal relationships between emotion components—networks representing distinct emotions
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Comment: Advances in Studying the Vocal Expression of Emotion: Current Contributions and Further Options Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Klaus R. Scherer
I consider the five contributions in this special section as evidence that the research area dealing with the vocal expression of emotion is advancing rapidly, both in terms of the number of pertinent empirical studies and with respect to an ever increasing sophistication of methodology. I provide some suggestions on promising areas for future interdisciplinary research, including work on emotion expression
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Comment: The Next Frontier: Prosody Research Gets Interpersonal Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Marc D. Pell, Sonja A. Kotz
Neurocognitive models (e.g., Schirmer & Kotz, 2006) have helped to characterize how listeners incrementally derive meaning from vocal expressions of emotion in spoken language, what neural mechanisms are involved at different processing stages, and their relative time course. But how can these insights be applied to communicative situations in which prosody serves a predominantly interpersonal function
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The Epistemic Significance of Emotional Experience Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Brian Scott Ballard
Some philosophers claim that emotions are, at best, hindrances to the discovery of evaluative truths, while others omit them entirely from their epistemology of value. I argue, however, that this is a mistake. Drawing an evaluative parallel with Frank Jackson’s Mary case, I show there is a distinctive way in which emotions epistemically enhance evaluative judgment. This is, in fact, a conclusion philosophers
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Relational Goes Beyond Interpersonal: The Development of Empathy in the Context of Culture Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Alexandra Main, Carmen Kho
It is clear a relational approach to the study of empathy is gaining traction across multiple disciplines. Both commentaries on “A Relational Framework for Integrating the Study of Empathy in Children and Adults” underscored the need to expand the relational framework of empathy to incorporate the broader social and cultural context in which children and adults live. In the present reply we outline
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Beyond Language in Infant Emotion Concept Development Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Ashley L. Ruba, Betty M. Repacholi
The process by which emotion concepts are learned is largely unexplored. Hoemann, Devlin, and Barrett (2020) and Shablack, Stein, and Lindquist (2020) argue that emotion concepts are learned through emotion labels (e.g., “happy”), which cohere variable aspects of emotions into abstract, conceptual categories. While such labeling-dependent learning mechanisms (supervised learning) are plausible, we
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Comment: How Your Own Becoming Feels Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Mascolo (2020) successfully defends a relational, developmental approach to emotions. I draw parallels between his perspective and the enactive approach, in particular with the concept of participatory sense-making. I suggest that the need to understand emotions developmentally reveals a deeper link between affective life and human unfinishedness, namely, that emotions are collectively constituted
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Comment: Collective Epistemic Emotions and Individualized Learning: A Relational Account Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 David Sander
This comment considers some potential implications of both the appraisal approaches and the framework proposed by Mascolo in regard to a mechanism that is particularly important for development: learning. More specifically, I discuss Mascolo’s account of emotion with respect to how appraisal processes can be considered relational, automatic, social, as well as the drivers of learning amplification
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The Study of Prosocial Emotions in Early Childhood: Unique Opportunities and Insights Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Robert Hepach, Amrisha Vaish
The study of young children’s prosocial emotions, especially as they regulate children’s social interactions toward cooperative ends, is burgeoning. We join Algoe (2020) and Tsang (2020) in their assessment that early ontogeny provides a unique window into the study of prosocial emotions, and that the behavioural methods developed to study prosocial emotions in young children could productively be
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Emotional Development: The View From Between Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Michael Mascolo
It is an honor to be able to engage Ezequiel Di Paolo’s and David Sander’s reflections on relational conceptions of emotional development. In this reply, I elaborate on the role of emotion in the open-ended construction of self. Di Paolo suggests that emotions are “collectively constituted ways of regulating human becoming” (2020, p. 229); Sander (2020) maintains that as felt modes of engagement, emotions
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Developing Emotion Research: Insights From Emotional Development Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Eric A. Walle
A full understanding of emotion necessitates the bridging of disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches. This special section uses emotional development as a foil to illustrate how such a bridge may be constructed and how studying emotional development can benefit the field as a whole. In doing so, this collection of articles points to three key principles for the study of emotion, specifically
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Call for Papers: Methods in Emotion Research Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Kimberly A. Barchard
Methods in Emotion Research is a special section of Emotion Review that assists emotion researchers in staying abreast of critical advances in research methods, tools, and techniques. We invite you to submit articles to this section or to contact the editors with suggestions for topics. Articles take a variety of formats. First, articles sometimes introduce and recommend a new method, tool, or technique
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The Hedonic Character of Nostalgia: An Integrative Data Analysis Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-08-30 Joost Leunissen, Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides, Clay Routledge
We conducted an integrative data analysis to examine the hedonic character of nostalgia. We combined positive and negative affect measures from 41 experiments manipulating nostalgia (N = 4,659). Overall, nostalgia inductions increased positive and ambivalent affect, but did not significantly alter negative affect. The magnitude of nostalgia’s effects varied markedly across different experimental inductions
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Measuring Positive Emotion Outcomes in Positive Psychology Interventions: A Literature Review Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-08-30 Judith T. Moskowitz, Elaine O. Cheung, Melanie Freedman, Christa Fernando, Madelynn W. Zhang, Jeff C. Huffman, Elizabeth L. Addington
Accumulating evidence for the unique social, behavioral, and physical health benefits of positive emotion and related well-being constructs has led to the development and testing of positive psychological interventions (PPIs) to increase emotional well-being and enhance health promotion and disease prevention. PPIs are specifically aimed at improving emotional well-being and consist of practices such
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Beyond Correlation: Acoustic Transformation Methods for the Experimental Study of Emotional Voice and Speech Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-07-24 Pablo Arias, Laura Rachman, Marco Liuni, Jean-Julien Aucouturier
While acoustic analysis methods have become a commodity in voice emotion research, experiments that attempt not only to describe but to computationally manipulate expressive cues in emotional voice and speech have remained relatively rare. We give here a nontechnical overview of voice-transformation techniques from the audio signal-processing community that we believe are ripe for adoption in this
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History Looks Forward: Interdisciplinarity and Critical Emotion Research Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Rob Boddice
The history of emotions has become a thriving focus within the discipline of history, but it has in the process gained a critical purchase that makes it relevant for other disciplines concerned with emotion research. The history of emotions is entangled with the history of the body and brain, and with cultural and political history. It is interested in the how and why of emotion change; with the questions
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Emotional Pursuits and the American Revolution Emotion Review (IF 7.345) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 Nicole Eustace
A major paradox of modern happiness gained wide public exposure in 1776 when Thomas Jefferson substituted the phrase “the pursuit of happiness” in place of Locke’s formulation: “life, liberty, and property.” In substituting happiness for property, Jefferson obscured the central hypocrisy of the Revolution, that—as contemporaries complained—the “loudest yelps for liberty” were made by those practicing