The experience of emotion.

By Lisa Feldman Barrett, B. Mesquita, Kevin N. Ochsner, James J. Gross. Annual Review of Psychology, 2007

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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 outlines an emerging scientific agenda for understanding what these experiences feel like and how they arise. We review the available answers to what is felt (i.e., the content that makes up an experience of emotion) and how neurobiological processes instantiate these properties of experience. These answers are then integrated into a broad framework that describes, in psychological terms, how the experience of emotion emerges from more basic processes. We then discuss the role of such experiences in the economy of the mind and behavior.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, positive): “Our meta-analytic findings were relatively more consistent with the psychological operations that we have considered ingredients of emotion here and in other papers (e.g., Barrett 2006b; 2009; Barrett et al. 2007a; Kober et al. 2008; Lindquist & Barrett 2008a; Wager et al. 2008).”
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A Review and Meta-Analysis of Multimodal Affect Detection Systems (2015, methodology): “The third hypothesized advantage of MM systems stems from the fact that UM affect detectors are inherently noisy since the link between speciﬁc signals and affective states is tenuous at best [Barrett et al. 2007; Russell et al. 2003].”
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