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 …

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 …

How do experiences in nature or in spiritual contemplation or in being moved by music or
with psychedelics promote mental and physical health? Our proposal in this article is awe …

This article considers the status and study of “context” in psychological science through the
lens of research on emotional expressions. The article begins by updating three well-trod …

Despite decades of challenges to the idea that a small number of emotions enjoys the
special status of “basic emotions,” the idea continues to have considerable influence in …

Over the last decades, theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of the affective
sciences have proliferated rather than converged due to differing assumptions about what …

Emotional voices attract considerable attention. A search on any browser using “emotional
prosody” as a key phrase leads to more than a million entries. Such interest is evident in the …

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 …

Despite the evolutionary history and cultural significance of visual art, the structure of
aesthetic experiences it evokes has only attracted recent scientific attention. What kinds of …

Emotion and perception are tightly intertwined, as affective experiences often arise from the
appraisal of sensory information. Nonetheless, whether the brain encodes emotional …