The nature of harm—and therefore moral judgment—may be misunderstood. Rather than an
objective matter of reason, we argue that harm should be redefined as an intuitively …

The classical view of emotion hypothesizes that certain emotion categories have a specific
autonomic nervous system (ANS)“fingerprint” that is distinct from other categories …

A fascinating challenge in the field of human–robot interaction is the possibility to endow
robots with emotional intelligence in order to make the interaction more intuitive, genuine …

Emotion plays a crucial role, both in general human experience and in psychiatric illnesses.
Despite the importance of emotion, the relative lack of objective methodologies to …

Test anxiety is a widespread and mostly detrimental emotion in learning and achievement
settings. Thus, it is a construct of high interest for researchers and its measurement is an …

Componential theories of lexical semantics assume that concepts can be represented by
sets of features or attributes that are in some sense primitive or basic components of …

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 …

Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …

Goal-directed social behaviours such as mating and fighting are associated with scalable
and persistent internal states of emotion, motivation, arousal or drive. How those internal …

The last decade has witnessed considerable interest in the investigation of the affective
dimensions of learning and in the development of advanced learning technologies that …