Are Emotions Natural Kinds?

By Lisa Feldman Barrett. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Unpacking Emotion Differentiation (2015, background): “…emotions with accuracy (this assumes that emotional reports have a clear, objective criterion against which accuracy can be compared, but see Barrett, 2006a), at other times defined as the skill of constructing and representing experience with a high degree of granularity (i.e.,…”
What’s in a Word? Language Constructs Emotion Perception (2013, background): “, & Barrett, L. F. (2012). Emotion words shape emotion percepts.”
Real-Time Measurement of Tourists’ Objective and Subjective Emotions in Time and Space (2018, background): “The question of inferring emotional states from physiological measures is part of a larger discussion that has occupied psychology research for many years: whether emotions are discrete psychological states (and thus should show distinct physiological responses) or constructed from more basic dimens”
Multimodal semi-automated affect detection from conversational cues, gross body language, and facial features (2010, background): “The plot is consistent with the basic valence-arousal model (Barrett 2006; Russell 2003) where Function 1 represents the valence dimension and Function 2 is the arousal dimension.”
Where Have All the People Gone? A Plea for Including Social Interaction in Emotion Research (2010, background): “The pattern of components of a discrete emotion may thus vary with context (see Feldman Barrett, 2006), because the integration of information from the social context, and the awareness of the emotional relation, may prompt other appraisals and social movements.”
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).”
The perception and categorisation of emotional stimuli: A review (2010, background): “This question has recently returned to the attention of emotion psychology due to a debate in Perspectives in Psychological Sciences (Barrett, 2006a; Barrett et al., 2007a; Izard, 2007; Panksepp, 2007, 2008).”
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).”
Culture and Emotion (2012, background): “We acknowledge that there is controversy concerning whether or not any emotions are biologically innate (interested readers are referred to Barrett, Mesquita, Ochsner, & Gross, 2007; Feldman Barrett, 2006a, 2006b).”
The Case for Emphasizing Discrete Emotions in Communication Research (2010, background): “Indeed, this might lead one to conclude that evidence weighs against the notion of emotion as natural kinds (Barrett, 2006).”
Measures of emotion: A review (2009, neutral): “The preponderance of evidence thus suggests that the amygdala primarily responds to unexpected inputs of motivational significance rather than the experience of fear or processing of fear-related stimuli per se (Barrett, 2006b; Berridge, 1999; Holland & Gallagher, 1999). Both meta-analyses agree tha”
IExpressNet: Facial Expression Recognition with Incremental Classes (2020, background): “Many recent methods [3, 38, 52] suggest that though thousands of emotions are recognized, the types of emotions are much more diverse than previously assumed.”
Dissecting the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Empathy (2011, methodology): “, Barrett, A. M., Crucian, G. P., Kortenkamp, S., & Heilman, K. M. (2002). Emotional experience and perception in the absence of facial feedback. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8, 130–135. Keysers, C., Wicker, B., Gazzola, V., Anton, J. L., Fogassi, L., & Gallese, V. (2004)”
Tracking technologies and urban analysis: Adding the emotional dimension (2018, background): “The answers to these questions are far from obvious and unresolved disagreements between psychologists over these fundamental issues abound (Barrett, 2006).”
Sentiment Analysis: Detecting Valence, Emotions, and Other Affectual States from Text (2016, background): “Even more controversially, the very theory of basic emotions has been challenged in recent work (Barrett, 2006; Lindquist, Wager, Kober, Bliss-Moreau, & Barrett, 2012; De Leersnyder, Boiger, & Mesquita, 2015).”