1. An Introduction to Psychological Construction, Lisa Feldman
Barrett and James A. Russell
I. Foundations
2. Mental Mechanisms and Psychological Construction, Mitchell
Herschbach & William Bechtel
3. Ten Common Misconceptions about Psychological Construction
Theories of Emotion, Lisa Feldman Barrett
II. Psychological Construction Theories
4. The Conceptual Act Theory: A Roadmap, Lisa Feldman Barrett,
Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, & Lawrence W. Barsalou
5. The Neuroscience of Construction: What Neuroimaging Approaches
Can Tell Us about How the Brain Creates the Mind, Suzanne
Oosterwijk, Alexandra Touroutoglou, & Kristen A. Lindquist
6. Emotions as Semantic Pointers: Constructive Neural Mechanisms,
Paul Thagard & Tobias Schröder
7. Affect Dynamics: Iterative Reprocessing in the Production of
Emotional Responses, William A. Cunningham, Kristen Dunfield, &
Paul Stillman
8. My Psychological Construction Perspective, with a Focus on
Conscious Affective Experience, James A. Russell
9. Emotions as Emergent Variables, James A. Coan & Marlen Z.
Gonzalez
III. Core Affect
10. Brain Mechanisms of Pleasure: The Core Affect Component of
Emotion, Morton L. Kringelbach & Kent C. Berridge
11. Mesolimbic Dopamine and Emotion: A Complex Contribution to a
Complex Phenomenon, John D. Salamone, Mercè Correa, Patrick A.
Randall, & Eric J. Nunes
12. An Approach to Mapping the Neurophysiological State of the Body
to Affective Experience, Ian R. Kleckner and Karen S. Quigley
IV. Commentary and Consilience
13. Can an Appraisal Model Be Compatible with Psychological
Constructionism?, Andrew Ortony & Gerald Clore
14. Basic Emotions, Psychological Construction, and the Problem of
Variability, Andrea Scarantino
15. A Sociodynamic Perspective on the Construction of Emotion,
Michael Boiger & Batja Mesquita
16. Evolutionary Constraints and Cognitive Mechanisms in the
Construction of an Emotion: Insights from Human and Nonhuman
Primates, Jennifer M. B. Fugate
V. Integration and Reflection
17. The Greater Constructionist Project for Emotion, James A.
Russell
18. Construction as an Integrative Framework for the Science of the
Emotion, Lisa Feldman Barrett
Afterword: Emotional Construction in the Brain, Joseph LeDoux
Index
Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor
of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective
Science Laboratory at Northeastern University, with research
appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General
Hospital (MGH), and is a faculty member at the MGH Center for Law,
Brain and Behavior. Dr. Barrett’s research focuses on the nature of
emotion from both psychological and neuroscience perspectives, and
incorporates insights from anthropology, philosophy, linguistics,
and the history of psychology. She is the recipient of a Pioneer
Award from the National Institutes of Health, among numerous other
awards, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the
Association for Psychological Science. She was a founding
Editor-in-Chief of the journalEmotion Reviewand cofounder of the
Society for Affective Science. Dr. Barrett has published more than
170 papers and book chapters.
James A. Russell, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Director of
the Emotion Development Lab at Boston College. His research centers
on human emotion, with interests in how large-scale environments
influence emotion, the nature of emotion, how emotions can be
described and assessed, a circumplex model of core affect, cultural
similarities and differences in emotion concepts, and the
perception of emotion from facial expressions. Dr. Russell is an
Editor-In-Chief of Emotion Review and a Fellow of the American
Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological
Science. He has published more than 100 articles in scientific
journals.
"Barrett and Russell have assembled a star-studded cast of
scholars. In contrast to faculty psychology accounts, which
enumerate distinct psychological modules, psychological
construction accounts are concerned with specifying how emotions
are constituted from more basic mental processes. This volume’s
well-coordinated chapters treat the reader to a fresh set of
perspectives. Eschewing the search for 'essences,' the authors
outline ambitious and exciting programs of process-oriented
research. A 'must read' for anyone interested in emotion."--James
J. Gross, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
"Research on emotion has long been dominated by the search for
innate modules that unleash feelings. The Psychological
Construction of Emotion presents an exciting and compelling
alternative."--Joseph E. LeDoux, PhD, Center for Neural Science and
Department of Psychology, New York University
“The science of psychology strikes back (against modularity of mind
and biological reductionism). Read The Psychological Construction
of Emotion and be dazzled: it reveals the neuroscience of emotion
as deep phrenology; basic emotion theory as not basic enough (and
certainly not hard-wired); faculty psychology as folk psychology.
Read the book and be impressed by the philosophical puzzles of the
mind-body problem and the problem of the one and the many when it
comes to defining and understanding that mysterious thing called
‘the emotions.’”--Richard A. Shweder, PhD, Harold Higgins Swift
Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Comparative Human
Development, University of Chicago
"This much-needed book nicely summarizes a new wave of
neuroscientific and psychological constructionist accounts of
emotion that oppose still very popular and easier-to-grasp
essentialist views. Instead of conceiving emotions as hard-wired
natural entities that rely on specific modules or networks in the
brain selected by biological evolution, constructionist approaches
take a more modern dynamical system approach. At a time when
simplified one-to-one mappings between high-level psychological
phenomena and their underlying biological bases still dominate
public discussion, this rich and inspiring book is necessary,
refreshing reading."--Tania Singer, PhD, Department of Social
Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain
Sciences, Leipzig, Germany -The publication of this volume is sure
to be regarded as a watershed event in the (post)modern study of
emotions. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty
and professionals.--Choice Reviews, 12/1/2015
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