This paper has a rather audacious purpose: to present a comprehensive theory explaining,
and further providing hypotheses for the empirical study of, the multiple ways by which …

speakers sometimes say that they feel “moved to tears,”“emotionally touched,”“stirred,” or
that something “warmed their heart;” other languages use similar passive contact metaphors …

The present study examines young children's distress management in situ, focusing on
situations of crying and caregivers' embodied—haptic—soothing responses in preschools in …

This paper is concerned with illuminating how emotion (anger) and emotion‐related
phenomena such as feelings, thoughts and expressions appear to the individual person. In …

Seeing someone in need may evoke a particular kind of closeness that has been
conceptualized as sympathy or empathic concern (which is distinct from other empathy …

While accounts of “aesthetic” experience inspire art study and drive its cognitive goals the
current modeling of art perception, based on the analytic tradition emphasizing successful …

Envy is the unpleasant emotion that can arise when people are exposed to others with
superior possessions. Common wisdom and scholarly opinion suggest that when people …

This paper explores a fundamental similarity between cognitive models for crying and
conceptions of insight, enlightenment or, in the context of art,“aesthetic experience.” All of …

When do people say that they are moved, and does this experience constitute a unique
emotion? We review theory and empirical research on being moved across psychology and …

From the Foreword:" In this book Joscha Bach introduces Dietrich Dorner's PSI architecture
and Joscha's implementation of the MicroPSI architecture. These architectures and their …