mental state
A mental state, or a mental property, is a state of mind of a person. Mental states comprise a diverse class, including perception, pain experience, belief, desire, intention, emotion, and memory. There is controversy concerning the exact definiti ...
s brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of
pleasure
Pleasure refers to experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of something. It contrasts with pain or suffering, which are forms of feeling bad. It is closely related to value, desire and action: humans and other conscious animals ...
Jesse Prinz
Jesse J. Prinz is a Distinguished Professor of philosophy and Director of the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Prinz works primarily in the philosophy of psychology and ...
– American philosopher who specializes in emotion, moral psychology, aesthetics and consciousness
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James A. Russell
James A. Russell is an American psychologist whose work focuses on emotion. In 2009, Russell was ranked 35th in terms of citation impact in social psychology.
Selected publications
Books
* Barrett, L. F., & Russell, J. A., Eds. (2015). The ...
Klaus Scherer
Klaus Rainer Scherer (born 1943) is former Professor of Psychology and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences
The Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences (french: Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives or "CISA") is an interdisci ...
(born 1943) – Swiss psychologist and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva; he specializes in the psychology of emotion
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Ronald de Sousa
Ronald Bon de Sousa Pernes ( ; born 1940) is a Swiss-born Canadian philosopher and academic. He is an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto, which he joined in 1966.
Biography
De Sousa possesses both UK ...
(born 1940) – English–Canadian philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of emotions, philosophy of mind and philosophy of biology
* Jonathan H. Turner (born 1942) – American sociologist from the
University of California, Riverside
The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...
, who is a general sociological theorist with specialty areas including the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institutions, social stratification, and bio-sociology
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Dominique Moïsi
Dominique Moïsi (born 21 October 1946) is a French Political science, political scientist and writer.
He was a co-founder and is a senior advisor of the Paris-based Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), ''Pierre Keller Visiting ...
(born 1946) – authored a book titled ''The Geopolitics of Emotion'' focusing on emotions related to globalization
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Affect measures Affect measures (measures of affect or measures of emotion) are used in the study of human affect (including emotions and mood), and refer to measures obtained from self-report studies asking participants to quantify their current feelings or aver ...
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Affective forecasting
Affective forecasting (also known as hedonic forecasting, or the hedonic forecasting mechanism) is the prediction of one's affect (emotional state) in the future. As a process that influences preferences, decisions, and behavior, affective foreca ...
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Emotion and memory
Emotion can have a powerful effect on humans and animals. Numerous studies have shown that the most vivid autobiographical memories tend to be of emotional events, which are likely to be recalled more often and with more clarity and detail than ...
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Emotion Review
''Emotion Review'' is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Sage Publications in association with the International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE).
It is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, ''Journal Citation Reports' ...
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Emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence (EI) is most often defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions. People with high emotional intelligence can emotion recognition, recognize their own emotions and those of others, use em ...
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Emotional isolation
Emotional isolation is a state of isolation where one may have a well-functioning social network but still feels emotionally separated from others.
Population-based research indicates that one in five middle-aged and elderly men (50–80 years) ...
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Emotions in virtual communication Emotions in virtual communication differ in a variety of ways from those in face-to-face interactions due to the characteristics of computer-mediated communication (CMC). CMC may lack many of the auditory and visual cues normally associated with th ...
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Facial feedback hypothesis The facial feedback hypothesis, rooted in the conjectures of Charles Darwin and William James, is that one's facial expression directly affects their emotional experience. Specifically, physiological activation of the facial regions associated with ...
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Fuzzy-trace theory Fuzzy-trace theory (FTT) is a theory of cognition originally proposed by Valerie F. Reyna and Charles Brainerd that draws upon dual-trace conceptions to predict and explain cognitive phenomena, particularly in memory and reasoning. The theory has ...
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Group emotion Group emotion refers to the moods, emotions and dispositional affects of a group of people. It can be seen as either an emotional entity influencing individual members' emotional states (top down) or the sum of the individuals' emotional states (bo ...
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Moral emotions
Moral emotions are a variety of social emotion that are involved in forming and communicating moral judgments and decisions, and in motivating behavioral responses to one's own and others' moral behavior.
Background
Moral reasoning has been the fo ...
Two-factor theory of emotion
The two-factor theory of emotion states that emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive label. The theory was created by researchers Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Singer. According to the theory, when an emotion is fel ...
References
Further reading
* Glinka, Lukasz Andrzej (2013) ''Theorizing Emotions: A Brief Study of Psychological, Philosophical, and Cultural Aspects of Human Emotions''. Great Abington: Cambridge International Science Publishing. .
* Dana Sugu & Amita Chaterje "Flashback: Reshuffling Emotions" , ''International Journal on Humanistic Ideology'', Vol. 3 No. 1, Spring–Summer 2010.
* Cornelius, R. (1996). ''The science of emotion''. New Jersey:
Prentice Hall
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* González, Ana Marta (2012). The Emotions and Cultural Analysis. Burlington, VT : Ashgate.
* Ekman, P. (1999). Basic Emotions . In: T. Dalgleish and M. Power (Eds.). ''Handbook of Cognition and Emotion''. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Sussex, UK:.
* Frijda, N.H. (1986). ''The Emotions''. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme an Cambridge University Press *
* Hogan, Patrick Colm. (2011) ''What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* Hordern, Joshua. (2013) ''Political Affections: Civic Participation and Moral Theology'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.
* LeDoux, J.E. (1986). "The neurobiology of emotion". Chap. 15 in J.E. LeDoux & W. Hirst (Eds.) ''Mind and Brain: dialogues in cognitive neuroscience''. New York: Cambridge.
* Mandler, G. (1984). ''Mind and Body: Psychology of emotion and stress''. New York: Norton Wayback Machine * Nussbaum, Martha C. (2001) ''Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* Plutchik, R. (1980). A general psychoevolutionary theory of emotion. In R. Plutchik & H. Kellerman (Eds.), ''Emotion: Theory, research, and experience: Vol. 1. Theories of emotion'' (pp. 3–33). New York: Academic.
* Roberts, Robert. (2003). ''Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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* Solomon, R. (1993). ''The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life''. Indianapolis:
Hackett Publishing
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Dror Green
Dror Green (born 1954) (Hebrew: דרור גרין) is a psychotherapist and author. He developed the method of Emotional Training, based on his concept of human nature. Although he was descended from a family that had lived in Israel f ...
(2011). "Emotional Training, the art of creating a sense of a safe place in a changing world". Bulgaria: Books