The psychological construction of emotion /

"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. (James Albert), 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Guilford Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to psychological construction / Lisa Feldman Barrett and James A. Russell
  • Part I. Foundations : Mental mechanisms and psychological construction / Mitchell Herschbach and William Bechtel
  • Ten common misconceptions about psychological construction theories of emotion / Lisa Feldman Barrett
  • Part II. Psychological construction theories : The conceptual act theory: a roadmap / Lisa Feldman Barrett, Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, and Lawrence W. Barsalou
  • The neuroscience of construction: what neuroimaging approaches can tell us about how the brain creates the mind / Suzanne Oosterwijk, Alexandra Touroutoglou, and Kristen A. Lindquist
  • Emotions as semantic pointers: constructive neural mechanisms / Paul Thagard and Tobias Schröder
  • Affect dynamics: iterative reprocessing in the production of emotional responses / William A. Cunningham, Kristen Dunfield and Paul E. Stillman
  • My psychological construction perspective, with a focus on conscious affective experience / James A. Russell
  • Emotions as emergent variables / James A. Coan and Marlen Z. Gonzalez
  • Part III. Core affect : Brain mechanisms of pleasure: the core affect component of emotion / Morton L. Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge
  • Mesolimbic dopamine and emotion: a complex contribution to a complex phenomenon / John D. Salamone, Mercè Correa, Patrick A. Randall, and Eric J. Nunes
  • An approach to mapping the neurophysiological state of the body to affective experience / Ian R. Kleckner and Karen S. Quigley
  • Part IV. Commentary and consilience : Can an appraisal model be compatible with psychological constructionism? / Andrew Ortony and Gerald Clore
  • Basic emotions, psychological construction, and the problem of variability / Andrea Scarantino
  • A sociodynamic perspective on the construction of emotion / Michael Boiger and Batja Mesquita
  • Evolutionary constraints and cognitive mechanisms in the construction of an emotion: insights from human and nonhuman primates / Jennifer M.B. Fugate
  • Part V. Integration and reflection : The greater constructionist project for emotion / James A. Russell
  • Construction as an integrative framework for the science of the emotion / Lisa Feldman Barrett
  • Afterword : Emotional construction in the brain / Joseph LeDoux.