Emotions unfold in the context of social interactions and relationships, where they serve
social ends. In this review, we discuss recent research on the social functions served by …

Theories of action have tended to view it—and its basis in thought and feeling—as static,
discrete, mechanistic, and decontextualized. Moreover, studies of action have tended to be …

What type of emotional language spreads further in political discourses on social media?
Previous research has focused on situations that primarily elicited negative emotions …

Anecdotally, people often report feeling despair about the political status quo. We
conceptualise these feelings as political despair. But what is political despair, and what are …

Highlights•Emotions are functional when they lead to favorable outcomes across time and
individuals.•Positive emotions direct behavior in situations that may confer rewards.• …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 125 (3) of Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2024-00669-001). In this article, the third …

Hope, gratitude, fear, and disgust may all be key to encouraging preventative action in the
context of COVID-19. We pre-registered a longitudinal experiment, which involved monthly …

Hope has intrigued and attracted humans for centuries, with views on this emotion ranging
from extremely positive to extremely negative. To deepen and nuance our understanding of …

Which emotions explain why people engage in political action (eg, voting, protesting)? To
answer this question, theory and research in psychology and political science predominantly …

Emotion recognition based on electroencephalography (EEG) signals has become an
interesting research topic in the field of neuroscience, psychology, neural engineering, and …