Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of
psychological science. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades, …

In this article, I introduce an emotion paradox: People believe that they know an emotion when
they see it, and as a consequence assume that emotions are discrete events that can be …

For some years now, emotion researchers have debated a series of issues related to the
structure of consciously experienced affective states. The present article reviews evidence that …

Laypeople and scientists alike believe that they know anger, or sadness, or fear, when they
see it. These emotions and a few others are presumed to have specific causal mechanisms …

Widely regarded as the standard reference in the field, this handbook comprehensively
examines all aspects of emotion and its role in human behavior. The editors and contributors are …

Experiences of emotion are content-rich events that emerge at the level of psychological
description, but must be causally constituted by neurobiological processes. This chapter …

Individuals differ considerably in their emotion experience. Some experience emotions in a
highly differentiated manner, clearly distinguishing among a variety of negative and positive …

We review recent work demonstrating consistent context effects during emotion perception.
Visual scenes, voices, bodies, other faces, cultural orientation, and even words shape how …

What is the structure of emotion? Emotion is too broad a class of events to be a single scientific
category, and no one structure suffices. As an illustration, core affect is distinguished from …

Dual-process theories of the mind are ubiquitous in psychology. A central principle of these
theories is that behavior is determined by the interplay of automatic and controlled …