T. Dixon. From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category.

By R. Smith. 2004

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Language and Metalanguage: Key Issues in Emotion Research (2009, background): “This applies both to the concept of “emotion” itself (Dixon, 2003; Mandler, 1975; Russell, 1991; Wierzbicka, 1999), and to more specific concepts like “anger,” “sadness,” “shame” or “gratitude.””
Biology’s Gift: Interrogating the Turn to Affect (2010, background): “In so doing, they have ventured a reconceptualization of the place of emotions in thinking and have therefore subverted the conventional marginalization of emotions in Western thought, philosophy and science (Dixon, 2003).”
Applying the Theory of Affective Intelligence to Support for Authoritarian Policies and Parties (2019, background): “Many may not know that “emotion” is a rather late entry into the semantic language as an overarching category encompassing what had long been understood as passion, desire, or sentiment (Dixon, 2006).”