Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/17540739221089693
G. Suri, J. Gross
{"title":"Authors' Reply: Why a Connectionist Perspective on Emotion is Helpful","authors":"G. Suri, J. Gross","doi":"10.1177/17540739221089693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739221089693","url":null,"abstract":"To make progress related to long-standing questions related to the nature of emotion, we offer the Interactive Activation and Competition framework for Emotion (IAC-E). The IAC-E is not another conventional theory of emotion. Rather, it offers a neural-network-based, algorithmic account of how emotion instances and categories arise. Our approach suggests that there need not be a contradiction between instances of the same emotion being sometimes consistent and sometimes variable. Similarly, there need not be a contradiction between observations of homogeneity (common in the basic emotion approach) and heterogeneity (common in the constructed emotion approach) within emotion categories","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"116 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44724276","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/17540739221091984
Claudio Celis Bueno, Claudia Schettini
{"title":"Transindividual Affect: Gilbert Simondon's Contribution to a Posthumanist Theory of Emotions","authors":"Claudio Celis Bueno, Claudia Schettini","doi":"10.1177/17540739221091984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739221091984","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to explore how some aspects of Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation may contribute to outlining a posthumanist theory of emotions. According to Simondon, the relation between affection and emotion is a key case study for examining the transindividual character of psychosocial individuation. Affection and emotion appear to him not as a binary opposition, but as an example of a transductive operation. The article suggests the concept of ‘transindividual affect’ as a way of challenging some key dualisms (rationality and emotion; the individual and the collective; emotion and affect). From this perspective, Simondon can contribute to a redefinition of the human from the non-dualistic and non-anthropocentric perspective that characterises critical posthumanism.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"121 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49529174","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 : 2022-03-29DOI: 10.1177/17540739221089692
Heather C. Lench, Noah T. Reed
{"title":"Comment: Can We Model What an Emotion Is? Comment on Suri & Gross (2022)","authors":"Heather C. Lench, Noah T. Reed","doi":"10.1177/17540739221089692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739221089692","url":null,"abstract":"The question “what is emotion?” has long been at the core of theoretical debates. The IAC-E is a useful framework for understanding relationships among responses in emotional situations. However, this approach cannot address the nature of emotion. Researchers determine what counts as emotion in the IAC-E, and this decision impacts the relationships detected and inferences made. The assumptions of researchers about emotion change the output. Further, the model is not theoretically agnostic and is best suited to examine emotion perception/knowledge, as in the simulations presented. According to some theories, experienced emotion is qualitatively different than situations that involve perceiving others' emotion or semantic knowledge. Addressing the nature of emotion requires empirical examination of the assumptions made in each theory.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"114 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45958509","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 : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1177/17540739221086587
K. Mulligan
{"title":"Care, Attachments and Concerns","authors":"K. Mulligan","doi":"10.1177/17540739221086587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739221086587","url":null,"abstract":"Müller's account of the way episodic emotions function depends on a contrast between these and what he calls cares, concerns and attachments and the claim that the latter are in several respects prior to the former. The account seems to attribute no normative features to the latter. But this is implausible. If a preference for liberty over social justice is a concern, it is justified if liberty really is more important than social justice.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"254 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45891996","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 : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1177/17540739221085573
Jean Moritz Müller
{"title":"The World-Directedness of Emotional Feeling: Affective Intentionality and Position-Taking","authors":"Jean Moritz Müller","doi":"10.1177/17540739221085573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739221085573","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a précis of my 2019 monograph The World-Directedness of Emotional Feeling: On Affect and Intentionality. The book engages with a growing trend of philosophical thinking according to which the felt dimension and the intentionality of emotion are unified. While sympathetic to the general approach, I argue for a reconceptualization of the form of intentionality that emotional feelings are widely thought to possess and, accordingly, of the kind of role they play in our mental lives. More specifically, I argue that the way we feel in having an emotion is not a perception-like awareness of evaluative properties of its object, but instead constitutes the taking of a stand or position on this object in light of its evaluative properties.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"244 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46955209","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 : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1177/17540739221082217
G. Dezecache, Christine Sievers, T. Gruber
{"title":"“Emotions in Cultural Dynamics”: What Non-Humans Can Teach Us about the Role of Emotions in Cultural Evolution","authors":"G. Dezecache, Christine Sievers, T. Gruber","doi":"10.1177/17540739221082217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739221082217","url":null,"abstract":"The role emotions play in the dynamics of cultural phenomena has long been neglected. The collection of articles recently published in Emotion Review provides an important first step into this necessary endeavor. In this commentary, we discuss this contribution by emphasizing the role epistemological parsimony should play in the future of this research agenda. The cultural behavior and emotions of chimpanzees is taken as reference.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"161 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42523919","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 : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1177/17540739221085574
R. A. Furtak
{"title":"Emotion, Action, and Passivity: A Commentary on Müller","authors":"R. A. Furtak","doi":"10.1177/17540739221085574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739221085574","url":null,"abstract":"According to Jean Moritz Müller's The world-directedness of emotional feeling, the reason why emotions do not apprehend or disclose value is that one cannot apprehend what one has already apprehended: the value in question, he claims, is apprehended prior to the emotional feeling. Emotions, then, should not be conceived as apprehending value since they already presuppose awareness of it. I can be acquainted with a fact without feeling aware of the meaning it holds. Yet I argue that only an emotional reaction (e.g., grief) actually registers value or disvalue (e.g., personal loss). My value-responsive concept of emotion is one that Müller rejects. Yet I contend that to recognize the loss of a beloved person, for instance, just is to feel the emotion of grief.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"261 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49572413","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 : 2022-02-28DOI: 10.1177/17540739221082203
G. Suri, J. Gross
{"title":"What is an Emotion? A Connectionist Perspective","authors":"G. Suri, J. Gross","doi":"10.1177/17540739221082203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739221082203","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers often disagree as to whether emotions are largely consistent across people and over time, or whether they are variable. They also disagree as to whether emotions are initiated by appraisals, or whether they may be initiated in diverse ways. We draw upon Parallel-Distributed-Processing to offer an algorithmic account in which features of an emotion instance are bi-directionally connected to each other via conjunction units. We propose that such indirect connections may be innate as well as learned. These ideas lead to the development of the Interactive Activation and Competition framework for Emotion (IAC-E) which allows us to specify when emotions are consistent and when they are variable, as well as when they are appraisal-led and when they are input-agnostic.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"99 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49195202","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 : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.1177/17540739211073084
Maciej Behnke, Sylvia D. Kreibig, Lukasz D. Kaczmarek, M. Assink, J. Gross
{"title":"Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Positive Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Review","authors":"Maciej Behnke, Sylvia D. Kreibig, Lukasz D. Kaczmarek, M. Assink, J. Gross","doi":"10.1177/17540739211073084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739211073084","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity is a fundamental component of emotional responding. It is not clear, however, whether positive emotional states are associated with differential ANS reactivity. To address this issue, we conducted a meta-analytic review of 120 articles (686 effect sizes, total N = 6,546), measuring ANS activity during 11 elicited positive emotions, namely amusement, attachment love, awe, contentment, craving, excitement, gratitude, joy, nurturant love, pride, and sexual desire. We identified a widely dispersed collection of studies. Univariate results indicated that positive emotions produce no or weak and highly variable increases in ANS reactivity. However, the limitations of work to date – which we discuss – mean that our conclusions should be treated as empirically grounded hypotheses that future research should validate.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"132 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41745086","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 : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qdzjw
M. Olszanowski, Monika Wróbel
{"title":"Why We Mimic Emotions Even When No One is Watching: Limited Visual Contact and Emotional Mimicry","authors":"M. Olszanowski, Monika Wróbel","doi":"10.31234/osf.io/qdzjw","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qdzjw","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores emotional mimicry and its interpersonal functions under the absence versus presence of visual contact between the interacting partners. We review relevant literature and stress that previous studies on emotional mimicry were focused on imitative responses to facial displays. We also show that the rules applying to mimicking facial expressions may not necessarily be applicable when visual emotional signals are not present (e.g., people attending an online meeting cannot see each other’s faces). Overall, our review suggests that emotional mimicry functionally adapts to whether the interacting partners can see each other. We therefore argue that going beyond facial displays may provide insight into emotional mimicry’s social functions, thereby clarifying its role in fostering affiliation and emotional understanding.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41364049","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}