Valence is a basic building block of emotional life

By Lisa Feldman Barrett. 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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The Geneva affective picture database (GAPED): a new 730-picture database focusing on valence and normative significance (2011, background): “Valence is undoubtedly an important dimension of this categorization (Barrett, 2006; Watson, Wiese, Vaidya, & Tellegen 1999).”
Gender and Depression in Men (2008, background): “This conceptual knowledge is thought to be learned, highly contextspecific, and directed strongly by language (Barrett, 2006a).”
The experience of emotion. (2007, background): “A large experiencesampling project involving idiographic analyses of experiences that were sampled in natural settings over many weeks verified that all participants (approximately 700 American college students) implicitly represented feelings of pleasure and displeasure (Barrett 2006c).”
The Embodiment of Emotion (2008, background): “…et al., 1997, 2000; Messinger, 2002), vocal cues (Bachorowski, 1999) expressive behavior (Cacioppo & Gardner, 1999), and neural activations (Wager, Phan, Liberzon, & Taylor, 2003) are consistent in giving evidence of a general affect system (for a review, see Barrett, 2006b; Russell, 2003).”
Measuring music-induced emotion (2011, background): “Interestingly, Barrett (1998, 2006) has discovered that people with different personalities differ in emotional granularity (i.e., the level of detail people use to describe emotions experienced in everyday contexts).”
The Hedonic Character of Nostalgia: An Integrative Data Analysis (2020, background): “, & Barrett, L. F. (2008). Emotional complexity. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones, & L. F. Barrett (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (3rd ed., pp. 513–530). Guilford Press. Lorenz, F. O., Simons, R. L., Conger, R. D., Elder, G. H., Jr., Johnson, C., & Chao, W. (1997). Married and recently divorced mothe”
Was Darwin Wrong About Emotional Expressions? (2011, background): “To the extent that emotion concepts are embodied and can be used for perceptual inferences and action regulation (hypothesized by Barrett, 2006b), these findings might be taken as evidence for the power of social learning about emotion.”
The multiplicity of emotions: A framework of emotional functions in decision making (2008, background): “More precisely, it is assumed that all emotional states can be mapped onto a one-dimensional scale of valence, characterized by contrasting labels such as positive versus negative, pleasurable versus painful, or helpful versus harmful ( Barrett, 2006b; Russell, 2003).”
A meta-analysis of emotional reactivity in major depressive disorder. (2008, background): “…reactivity rather than specific emotions because (1) the major views of emotional reactivity in MDD concern PER and NER (2) valence has high theoretic importance in the emotion literature (e.g., Barrett, 2006), and (3) insufficient research exists to allow pooling of results for specific emotions.”
Stories vs. facts: triggering emotion and action-taking on climate change (2019, background): “It is the inherently positive or negative charge of an emotion (Russell and Barrett 1999) indicating the value or expected consequence of a specific piece of information (Barrett 2006).”
Emergent Ghosts of the Emotion Machine (2010, background): “The model specifically defines fear as causing amygdala activity, ANS arousal, an escape- or withdrawal- oriented behavioral action tendency, and a subjective report of feeling afraid (Barrett, 2006a).”
From affect programs to dynamical discrete emotions (2009, background): “This suggestion is explicit in Barrett (see in particular Barrett, 2006b), who writes for example that ‘‘emotions are not biologically given, but are constructed via the process of categorization’’ (Barrett, 2006b, p. 27).”