The psychological construction of emotion /

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"This volume presents cutting-edge theory and research on emotions as constructed events rather than fixed, essential entities. It provides a thorough introduction to the assumptions, hypotheses, and scientific methods that embody psychological constructionist approaches. Leading scholars exami...

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Other Authors: Barrett, Lisa Feldman, Russell, James A.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Emotions.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. An Introduction to Psychological Construction, Lisa Feldman Barrett and James A. Russell
  • I. Foundations
  • 2. Mental Mechanisms and Psychological Construction, Mitchell Herschbach & William Bechtel
  • 3. Ten Common Misconceptions about Psychological Construction Theories of Emotion, Lisa Feldman Barrett
  • II. Psychological Construction Theories
  • 4. The Conceptual Act Theory: A Roadmap, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, & Lawrence W. Barsalou
  • 5. The Neuroscience of Construction: What Neuroimaging Approaches Can Tell Us about How the Brain Creates the Mind, Suzanne Oosterwijk, Alexandra Touroutoglou, & Kristen A. Lindquist
  • 6. Emotions as Semantic Pointers: Constructive Neural Mechanisms, Paul Thagard & Tobias Schröder
  • 7. Affect Dynamics: Iterative Reprocessing in the Production of Emotional Responses, William A. Cunningham, Kristen Dunfield, & Paul Stillman
  • 8. My Psychological Construction Perspective, with a Focus on Conscious Affective Experience, James A. Russell
  • 9. Emotions as Emergent Variables, James A. Coan & Marlen Z. Gonzalez
  • III. Core Affect
  • 10. Brain Mechanisms of Pleasure: The Core Affect Component of Emotion, Morton L. Kringelbach & Kent C. Berridge
  • 11. Mesolimbic Dopamine and Emotion: A Complex Contribution to a Complex Phenomenon, John D. Salamone, Mercè Correa, Patrick A. Randall, & Eric J. Nunes
  • 12. An Approach to Mapping the Neurophysiological State of the Body to Affective Experience, Ian R. Kleckner and Karen S. Quigley
  • IV. Commentary and Consilience
  • 13. Can an Appraisal Model Be Compatible with Psychological Constructionism?, Andrew Ortony & Gerald Clore
  • 14. Basic Emotions, Psychological Construction, and the Problem of Variability, Andrea Scarantino
  • 15. A Sociodynamic Perspective on the Construction of Emotion, Michael Boiger & Batja Mesquita
  • 16. Evolutionary Constraints and Cognitive Mechanisms in the Construction of an Emotion: Insights from Human and Nonhuman Primates, Jennifer M. B. Fugate
  • V. Integration and Reflection
  • 17. The Greater Constructionist Project for Emotion, James A. Russell
  • 18. Construction as an Integrative Framework for the Science of the Emotion, Lisa Feldman Barrett
  • Afterword: Emotional Construction in the Brain, Joseph LeDoux
  • Index.

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