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 …

Cultural psychology—the research field focusing on the mutual constitution of culture and
the mind—has made great strides by documenting robust cultural variations in how people …

Scholars have argued for centuries that affective states involve interoception, or
representations of the state of the body. Yet, we lack a mechanistic understanding of how …

Understanding the degree to which human facial expressions co-vary with specific social
contexts across cultures is central to the theory that emotions enable adaptive responses to …

The COVID-19 pandemic may be one of the greatest modern societal challenges that
requires widespread collective action and cooperation. While a handful of actions can help …

Fear and anxiety play a central role in mammalian life, and there is considerable interest in
clarifying their nature, identifying their biological underpinnings, and determining their …

Abstract Language can provide important insights into people, and culture more generally.
Further, the digitization of information has made more and more textual data available. But …

Many of us “see red,”“feel blue,” or “turn green with envy.” Are such color-emotion
associations fundamental to our shared cognitive architecture, or are they cultural creations …

Humans have been using language for millennia but have only just begun to scratch the
surface of what natural language can reveal about the mind. Here we propose that language …

To date we know little about natural emotion word repertoires, and whether or how they are
associated with emotional functioning. Principles from linguistics suggest that the richness or …