Scholarly debates about the nature of human emotion traditionally pit biological and cultural
influences against one another. Although many existing theories acknowledge the role of …

In this article, we review recent developments in the study of emotional expression within a
basic emotion framework. Dozens of new studies find that upwards of 20 emotions are …

Emotions are one of the most apparent and important aspects of our lives, yet have
remained one of the most enigmatic to explain scienti cally. On the one hand, nothing seems …

Anxiety disorders impose a staggering burden on public health, underscoring the need to
develop a deeper understanding of the distributed neural circuits underlying extreme fear …

What emotions do the face and body express? Guided by new conceptual and quantitative
approaches (Cowen, Elfenbein, Laukka, & Keltner, 2018; Cowen & Keltner, 2017, 2018), we …

Naturalistic stimuli such as movies, music, and spoken and written stories elicit strong
emotions and allow brain imaging of emotions in close-to-real-life conditions. Emotions are …

Affective experiences are commonly represented by either transient emotional reactions to
discrete events or longer term, sustained mood states that are characterized by a more …

This article suggests that methodological and conceptual advancements in affective
sciences militate in favor of adopting an appraisal-driven componential approach to further …

Basic emotion theory (BET) has been, perhaps, the central narrative in the science of
emotion. As Crivelli and Fridlund (J Nonverbal Behav 125: 1–34, 2019, this issue) would …

Vernacular lexemes appear self-evident, so we unwittingly reify them. But the words and
phrases of natural languages comprise a treacherous basis for identifying valid …