Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2026-08-25DOI: 10.1177/17540739261480532
Johannes Larsson, Tom Denson, Hugo Hesser
{"title":"Hardwired for Anger—A Predictive Processing Account of Trait Anger and Aggression","authors":"Johannes Larsson, Tom Denson, Hugo Hesser","doi":"10.1177/17540739261480532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739261480532","url":null,"abstract":"While anger may help us to detect and respond to threat, individuals high in trait anger and aggression often perceive danger where little exists. Drawing on predictive processing—a framework describing how the brain combines past experiences with current sensory input—we propose that anger-prone individuals overweight prior threat beliefs while underweighting current input. This imbalance may create a persistent state of alertness and readiness for anger and aggression. We identify disruptions in three core error-correction processes— <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">selective attention</jats:italic> , <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">belief updating</jats:italic> , and <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">active inference</jats:italic> —as potential mechanisms underlying this threat overestimation. Finally, we outline clinical implications, showing how predictive processing can help explain why existing anger treatments are effective, where they may be limited, and how they might be optimized.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148815563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2026-08-21DOI: 10.1177/17540739261478876
Yifan Bian, Hyunwoo Kim, Eva G. Krumhuber
{"title":"A Systematic Review of 128 Spontaneous and Dynamic Facial Expression Databases","authors":"Yifan Bian, Hyunwoo Kim, Eva G. Krumhuber","doi":"10.1177/17540739261478876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739261478876","url":null,"abstract":"In the past decade, spontaneous and dynamic facial expression databases (FEDBs) have expanded rapidly, advancing emotion research beyond static, posed expressions. Yet existing reviews remain fragmented due to limited search strategies and a lack of systematic methods. This article synthesizes 128 spontaneous and dynamic FEDBs, examining their conceptual, technical, and practical dimensions. It summarizes how emotions are represented, measured, and validated across diverse populations; how databases vary in composition, recording methods, and modalities; and how accessibility, usability, and ethics shape their use. By integrating these perspectives, the review consolidates current knowledge, identifies methodological gaps, and outlines directions for developing more diverse and ecologically valid FEDBs that better capture the complexity of human emotion.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"137 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148768752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2026-07-29DOI: 10.1177/17540739261467255
Antonin Broi
{"title":"Against the Flow","authors":"Antonin Broi","doi":"10.1177/17540739261467255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739261467255","url":null,"abstract":"In the past decades, flow research has considerably developed and become a respected field in psychology. However, persistent concerns remain regarding the definition of flow, as multiple and at times conflicting conceptualizations have been employed since Csikszentmihalyi introduced the concept in the 1970s. In this theoretical article, I examine the main ambiguities surrounding its definition and argue that they carry significant implications for flow research, as well as for the broader study of emotion. Though several solutions have been proposed, I suggest that flow research, perhaps paradoxically, should let go of the concept of flow and focus on more well-defined and simpler constructs to make further progress.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"354 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148612535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2026-06-23DOI: 10.1177/17540739261459795
Lan Wang, Suzanna Awang Bono
{"title":"Digital Pulse: Reimagining Motivations for Emotional sharing in the Social Media Era","authors":"Lan Wang, Suzanna Awang Bono","doi":"10.1177/17540739261459795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739261459795","url":null,"abstract":"Social sharing of emotion (SSE) is widespread, yet digital contexts may selectively foreground certain traditional motives and alter how they are expressed. This paper proposes an integrative model explaining how traditional SSE motives are enacted, prioritized, and organized on social media. Drawing on SSE theory and perspectives on self-presentation, hyperpersonal communication, social presence, and media richness, the model distinguishes antecedent factors that activate sharing from structural conditions that shape how sharing unfolds and is interpreted. Heightened visibility, indeterminate audiences, and anonymity selectively foreground five digitally salient SSE motives, taking the form of identity signaling, risk-managed disclosure, networked problem-solving, validation seeking, and visibility mobilization. These forms are conceptualized as context-specific expressions of traditional SSE motives rather than novel psychological needs, preserving theoretical continuity while capturing how these motives are differentially prioritized and expressed on social media.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"517 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148299408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2026-06-23DOI: 10.1177/17540739261459807
Marci Cottingham, Giovanna Colombetti
{"title":"Neo-emotions: Introduction to the Special Issue","authors":"Marci Cottingham, Giovanna Colombetti","doi":"10.1177/17540739261459807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739261459807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148299409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2026-05-30DOI: 10.1177/17540739261444292
Rebecca Dickason, Neal M. Ashkanasy, David Hampton-Musseau
{"title":"The Early Western History of the Concept of Emotional Intelligence (1811–1990): From the Era of Proto-Emotional Intelligence to the Dawn of Scholarly Interest","authors":"Rebecca Dickason, Neal M. Ashkanasy, David Hampton-Musseau","doi":"10.1177/17540739261444292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739261444292","url":null,"abstract":"Since 1990, research on emotional intelligence (EI) has generated both controversy and promise. Yet little is known about its early conceptual history. This article addresses that shortcoming by tracing the origins and evolution of EI through literature, arts, philosophy, and early social science, outlining how diverse references gradually coalesced into a recognizable construct. We identify “proto-EI” instantiations—precursors that resonate with today's “four-branch” model—and trace how they developed across domains, culminating in a more focused scholarly interest in the late 20th century. Our contribution is threefold: (a) documenting imprints of EI and proto-EI, (b) clarifying the trajectory of EI as a concept rather than an essence, and (c) opening avenues for future research by highlighting forgotten dimensions and interdisciplinary and intercultural possibilities.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2026-04-24DOI: 10.1177/17540739261441747
Ian Burkitt
{"title":"Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come: Alienation, Neo-Emotions, and Radical Politics in Contemporary Capitalism","authors":"Ian Burkitt","doi":"10.1177/17540739261441747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739261441747","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the emotions of alienation, estrangement, and nostalgia, and how they are central to the production of neo-emotions in contemporary society. Alienation is a product of the macro-social context of capitalist societies and contemporary neo-emotions are a response to this, addressing the current misalignment between people, their emotional experiences, and their dynamic environment. I consider how alienation affects those on the left of politics, including those involved in radical activism, and how neo-emotions are the creative practices that forge new identities and collectives for active resistance. Those struggling to create non-alienated societies always experienced conflicting emotions, like optimism and pessimism, hope and despair, but these can be synthesized into positive neo-emotions such as progressive nostalgia and radical hope.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147744087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2026-04-15DOI: 10.1177/17540739261441737
Agneta H. Fischer
{"title":"Emotions and Societal Changes: The Nature and Social Functions of “Neo-Emotions”","authors":"Agneta H. Fischer","doi":"10.1177/17540739261441737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739261441737","url":null,"abstract":"Neo-emotions are defined by one shared characteristic: they are a response to macro-societal changes. To gain full insight into when neo-emotions occur, a sociological approach needs to be complemented with a psychological perspective to conceptualize the relation between micro- and macro-level processes. I argue that neo-emotions can be considered group-based emotions. Their social function is to regulate potential challenges elicited by societal changes which one's bonds with members of one's group. Neo-emotions increase belongingness to a group and demarcate one's own group from other groups. In addition to strengthening one's social identity, neo-emotions have a societal function to strengthen social movements, providing awareness, commitment, and change. An adequate emotion vocabulary supports these functions but is not a necessary condition for neo-emotions to emerge.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"133 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147684718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2026-04-13DOI: 10.1177/17540739261441748
Corey J. Miles
{"title":"Feeling Some Type of Way: Black Feeling and Emotional Ambiguity","authors":"Corey J. Miles","doi":"10.1177/17540739261441748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739261441748","url":null,"abstract":"Black Americans are disproportionately exposed to police violence, medical racism, and workforce discrimination in comparison to their White counterparts. Controlling images that position Black people as emotionless criminals, over-emotional, and subjects who feel pain differently have been used to justify these racial disparities. This paper explores how Black Americans articulate complicated emotions produced by living in the United States as a citizen while American institutions are simultaneously organized around anti-Black racism. Black Americans have expanded their emotional vocabulary and developed <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">feeling some type of way</jats:italic> as a neo-emotion that abandons a search for accurate description by relying on emotional opacity and feelings that don’t register as feelings to refuse the terms that equate emotional knowability with one's access to humanity.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147682143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2026-04-07DOI: 10.1177/17540739261438056
Rosemary Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, Stephen Jonathan Whitty, Anita Louise Wheeldon
{"title":"Empathic Perception: A Neutral Framework for Understanding Empathy","authors":"Rosemary Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, Stephen Jonathan Whitty, Anita Louise Wheeldon","doi":"10.1177/17540739261438056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739261438056","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reconceptualises evaluative processes pertinent to empathy as empathic perception: an evaluative, dynamic, and embodied process that provides morally neutral information as a perception to guide action and manage relationships. Traditional models often treat empathy as prosocial, yet it can enable both cooperation and exploitation. Empathic perception addresses this complexity by reframing evaluative processes used to understand another as a means of gathering intelligence rather than as an inherently benevolent force. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and social theory, we develop a model of empathic perception and an empathic perception–action matrix that shows how sociocultural context and personal motivation shape outcomes. This reconceptualization advances theoretical understanding by positioning empathic enquiry not as a moral virtue, but as a perceptual process that informs decision-making across contexts.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147636090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}