Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2024-08-31DOI: 10.1177/17540739241278933
Erkin Asutay, Hulda Karlsson, Daniel Västfjäll
{"title":"Affect and Impact Neglect in Sustainable Decision-Making","authors":"Erkin Asutay, Hulda Karlsson, Daniel Västfjäll","doi":"10.1177/17540739241278933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241278933","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent special section on Sustainability and Emotion, Schneider and van der Linden present how sustainability science could benefit from affective science to address important unanswered questions about the psychological and affective antecedents of people's engagement in relatively high-impact sustainable behaviors. Here, we underline the importance of combining the motivational role of positive affect with an impact-focused research agenda to understand the causal role of affect in sustainable decision-making and to develop communication strategies harnessing affective mechanisms to promote impactful sustainable behaviors. We present potential links connecting affective experience with perceived impact and adoption of sustainable behaviors. Finally, we argue for communication strategies aiming to enhance positive affect associated with high-impact behaviors.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142100976","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 : 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1177/17540739241277942
Luiz Biondi, Nuno Gomes, Rafael S. Maior, Sandra C. Soares
{"title":"Revisiting “The Malicious Serpent”: Phylogenetically Threatening Stimulus Marked in the Human Brain","authors":"Luiz Biondi, Nuno Gomes, Rafael S. Maior, Sandra C. Soares","doi":"10.1177/17540739241277942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241277942","url":null,"abstract":"Twenty years ago, Öhman and Mineka's publication “The Malicious Serpent” emphasized the selective pressure ancestral reptiles would have on early mammals’ visual system, specifically the development of a set of subcortical structures that would provide snake-like images privileged access to the amygdala. This process would occur automatically and allows for quick defensive reactions. Based on criticisms directed to the snake detection research, we created five questions that guided the discussion in this review. Evidence suggests the existence of a set of subcortical structures that promote prompt detection of snakes and sustained attention, but difficulties arise due to the complex interconnectivity of cortical and subcortical structures and multiple threat responses. Gaps in the research are identified as potential for future investigation.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142100966","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1177/17540739241259562
Caitlyn Trevor, Sascha Frühholz
{"title":"Music as an Evolved Tool for Socio-Affective Fiction.","authors":"Caitlyn Trevor, Sascha Frühholz","doi":"10.1177/17540739241259562","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17540739241259562","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The question of why music evolved has been contemplated and debated for centuries across multiple disciplines. While many theories have been posited, they still do not fully answer the question of why humans began making music. Adding to the effort to solve this mystery, we propose the socio-affective fiction (SAF) hypothesis. Humans have a unique biological need for emotion regulation strengthening. Simulated emotional situations, like dreams, can help address that need. Immersion is key for such simulations to successfully exercise people's emotions. Therefore, we propose that music evolved as a signal for SAF to increase the immersive potential of storytelling and thereby better exercise people's emotions. In this review, we outline the SAF hypothesis and present cross-disciplinary evidence.</p>","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"16 3","pages":"180-194"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11294008/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emotion ReviewPub Date : 2024-06-20DOI: 10.1177/17540739241259557
Giacomo Lampredi
{"title":"Affective Ruptures: A Pragmatist Approach","authors":"Giacomo Lampredi","doi":"10.1177/17540739241259557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241259557","url":null,"abstract":"This article defines a possible pragmatist approach to the sociology of emotions by discussing and delimiting the concept of “affective rupture.” According to this approach, emotions emerge from the breaking of habits in the face of the transformation of situations, producing reflexivity and relational adjustments. The pragmatist approach problematizes the “rhythm” of emotions, made up of ruptures, moments of quiet, adjustments, harmonizations, restorations, and relational revolutions. Rhythm is what emotions pragmatically “do,” ordering and transforming every social situation. This article employs this idea to reinterpret some sociological approaches to emotions and, in parallel, to show how the interdependence between affectivity and irruption of events that involve and upset is constitutive of everyone's social behaviors.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141448698","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 : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1177/17540739241233601
A. E. Denham
{"title":"Empathy & Literature","authors":"A. E. Denham","doi":"10.1177/17540739241233601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241233601","url":null,"abstract":"There is a long tradition in philosophy and literary theory defending the view that engagement with literature promotes readers’ empathy. Until the last century, few of the empirical claims adduced in that tradition were investigated experimentally. Recent work in psychology and neuropsychology has now shed new light on the interplay of empathy and literature. This article surveys the experimental findings, addressing three central questions: What is it to read empathically? Does reading make us more empathic? What characteristics of literature, if any, affect readers’ empathy? While experimental studies have delivered no conclusive answers to these questions, it has exposed their psychological complexity and constructed a more nuanced picture of the diverse ways in which literature interacts with our empathic capacities.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"169 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140192807","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 : 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1177/17540739241231931
Lisa Zunshine
{"title":"Don’t Be Too Good at Reading Other People's Minds","authors":"Lisa Zunshine","doi":"10.1177/17540739241231931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241231931","url":null,"abstract":"Attribution of mental states is fundamental to our engagement with fiction. Crucially, its social content depends on mental states recursively “embedded” within each other; for instance, when a person doesn’t want other people to know about her intentions. Given that some characters seem to be consistently capable of embedding mental states on a higher level than others, this essay reviews factors that may influence authors’ constructions of such mindreading hierarchies as well as their reversals. The argument focuses on the reversal scenes in films Goodbye Lenin, The Lives of Others, and Never Look Away, and on prosocial emotions evoked by their depiction of a more equitable distribution of a presumably valuable and scarce resource, that is, access to other people's minds.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139994640","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 : 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1177/17540739241235111
Bradley J. Irish
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue: “Literature and Emotion”","authors":"Bradley J. Irish","doi":"10.1177/17540739241235111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241235111","url":null,"abstract":"This introduces the special issue “Literature and Emotion.”","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139977014","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 : 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1177/17540739241231934
Stephen Ahern
{"title":"Affect Theory and Literary Criticism","authors":"Stephen Ahern","doi":"10.1177/17540739241231934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241231934","url":null,"abstract":"The “affective turn” is by now long established, part of a wider surge of interest in emotion playing out in a range of disciplines. In literary studies, the conversation about how affect theory might help us to interpret literature is still emerging. The goal of the present discussion is to provide a critical overview of work by scholars who draw on the insights of recent theory to read literary texts written in English. At the same time that the discussion offers an appraisal of the current state of scholarship, it also seeks to identify emerging new directions in research.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139938991","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 : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1177/17540739241231932
Patrick Colm Hogan
{"title":"Fairness, Hierarchy, and Moral Rationalization, or What's Wrong With Paradise Lost?","authors":"Patrick Colm Hogan","doi":"10.1177/17540739241231932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241231932","url":null,"abstract":"Literature and Moral Feeling argued that ethics is best understood as a constraint on egocentric self-interest. That constraint is specified variously by groups or individuals who set parameters differently within common ethical principles, and who use a range of emotion-guided narrative genres to imagine and evaluate possible actions. Though it covers many ethical concerns (collectively termed “morality”), this account leaves out fairness (alternatively, justice). The following essay seeks to make up for that deficit. Framing its analysis by reference to a well-known problem in Milton's Paradise Lost, it distinguishes two systems of ethical response organized around first- and third-person perspectives. Like the first-person concerns of morality, third person concerns of justice are specified by setting parameters within common principles. In treating these principles and parameters, the essay articulates cognitive and affective components of third-person ethical evaluation. These, then, help to resolve the problem with Milton's poem. That resolution, in turn, suggests further complications in the account of ethical evaluation.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139939023","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 : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1177/17540739241232350
Emanuele Castano
{"title":"Less Is More: How the Language of Fiction Fosters Emotion Recognition","authors":"Emanuele Castano","doi":"10.1177/17540739241232350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241232350","url":null,"abstract":"Stories, in pictorial format, orally narrated, and later on as narrative texts, have played a key role in human evolution and to this day continue to surreptitiously teach us things and skills. In recent decades, psychologists and cognitive scientists have begun documenting the role of stories, and particularly fiction, in refining our sociocognitive skills. In this essay, I focus specifically on how stories, particularly written fiction, hone our emotion recognition skills. I present a brief overview of existing theorizing and research findings, and propose the less-is-more hypothesis, according to which emotion recognition skills are sharpened by stories that do not tell us, but rather show us the emotional life of fictional characters.","PeriodicalId":48064,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Review","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139938989","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}