Lisa Feldman Barrett (ed.) - The Psychological Construction of Emotion

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THE
PSYCHOLOGICAL
CONSTRUCTION
OF EMOTION

Edited by

Lisa Feldman Barrett
James A. Russell

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The psychological construction of emotion / edited by Lisa Feldman Barrett, James A. Russell.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4625-1697-1 (hardback)

1. Emotions. I. Barrett, Lisa Feldman. II. Russell, James A. (James Albert), 1947

BF531.P776 2014

152.4dc23

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Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University, with research appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Barretts research focuses on the nature of emotion from both psychological and neuroscience perspectives, and incorporates insights from anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and the history of psychology. She is the recipient of a Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health, among numerous other awards, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for Psychological Science. She was a founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Emotion Review and cofounder of the Society for Affective Science. Dr. Barrett has published more than 160 papers and book chapters.

James A. Russell, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Emotion Development Lab at Boston College. His research centers on human emotion, with interests in how large-scale environments influence emotion, the nature of emotion, how emotions can be described and assessed, a circumplex model of core affect, cultural similarities and differences in emotion concepts, and the perception of emotion from facial expressions. Dr. Russell is an Editor-in-Chief of Emotion Review and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He has published more than 100 articles in scientific journals.

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Lawrence W. Barsalou, PhD, Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

William Bechtel, PhD, Department of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

Kent C. Berridge, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Michael Boiger, PhD, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Gerald Clore, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

James A. Coan, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Merc Correa, PhD, Division of Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

William A. Cunningham, PhD, Department of Psychology and Marketing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kristen Dunfield, PhD, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jennifer M. B. Fugate, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts

Marlen Z. Gonzalez, MA, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Mitchell Herschbach, PhD, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California

Ian R. Kleckner, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Morten L. Kringelbach, DPhil, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, and Centre for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Joseph LeDoux, PhD, Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York

Kristen A. Lindquist, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Batja Mesquita, PhD, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Eric J. Nunes, PhD, Division of Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

Suzanne Oosterwijk, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Andrew Ortony, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Karen S. Quigley, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, and Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts

Patrick A. Randall, PhD, Division of Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

James A. Russell, PhD, Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

John D. Salamone, PhD, Division of Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

Andrea Scarantino, PhD, Department of Philosophy and Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Tobias Schrder, PhD, Institute for Urban Futures, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam, Germany

Paul E. Stillman, MA, Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Paul Thagard, PhD, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Alexandra Touroutoglou, PhD, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts

Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Preparation of this volume was supported by a National Institutes of Health Directors Pioneer Award (DP1OD003312), by U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences contracts (W5J9CQ-11-C-0046 and W5J9CQ-11-C-0049), and by grants R01 AG030311, R01 MH093394, and R21MH099605 awarded to Lisa Feldman Barrett. The views, opinion, and/or findings contained in this volume are solely those of the authors and should not be construed as an official Department of the Army or Department of Defense position, policy, or decision.

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