The Conceptual Act Theory: A Précis

By Lisa Feldman Barrett. 2014

247 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Reinhard Pekrun
2. Thomas Goetz
3. S. V. D. Cruys
4. Thomas W. Schubert
5. Martin Voracek
6. Alan Page Fiske
7. Beate Seibt
8. Peter Kuppens

In Social Psychology

1. Thomas Goetz
2. Reinhard Pekrun
3. Madeleine Bieg
4. S. V. D. Cruys
5. Thomas W. Schubert
6. Martin Voracek
7. Alan Page Fiske
8. Beate Seibt

Citations in the corpus

• It’s About Time: A Special Section on Affect Dynamics (2015, background): “The conceptual act theory of emotions (Barrett, 2014) considers that people experience emotions as the result of categorizing physical changes (internal changes or sensory changes from the world) using emotion conceptual knowledge.”
• Affective Value in the Predictive Mind (2017, background): “In the current view, the full-fledged (semantically rich), conscious emotions, in all their heterogeneity and object-directedness, appear as a form of construction, a “making sense of ” underlying affect (Barrett 2014; Russell 2003).”
• Test Anxiety and Physiological Arousal: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2020, background): “For example, as outlined by Barrett (2014) in her conceptual act theory, the brain interprets bodily inputs resulting in the experience of corresponding emotions.”
• The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It (2019, background): “Theories of emotions differ widely, some taking a more biological view and arguing that only a few culturally universal emotions exist (Tracy, 2014), and others adopting a constructivist view and arguing that emotions are not natural kinds but instead are entirely arbitrary cultural constructions (B”
• The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization (2017, unknown): “The answer, I suggest, will look something like the theory of constructed emotion (Barrett, 2017), formerly, the conceptual act theory of emotion (Barrett, 2006b, 2011a, 2012, 2013, 2014).”