Description
This volume presents cutting-edge theory and research on emotions as constructed events rather than fixed, essential entities. It provides a thorough introduction to the assumptions, hypotheses, and scientific methods that embody psychological constructionist approaches. Leading scholars examine the neurobiological, cognitive/perceptual, and social processes that give rise to the experiences Western cultures call sadness, anger, fear, and so on. The book explores such compelling questions as how the brain creates emotional experiences, whether the "ingredients" of emotions also give rise to other mental states, and how to define what is or is not an emotion. Introductory and concluding chapters by the editors identify key themes and controversies and compare psychological construction to other theories of emotion.
Chapter
Chapter 2. Mental Mechanisms and Psychological Construction
Chapter 3. Ten Common Misconceptions about Psychological Construction Theories of Emotion
Part II. Psychological Construction Theories
Chapter 4. The Conceptual Act Theory: A Roadmap
Chapter 5. The Neuroscience of Construction: What Neuroimaging Approaches Can Tell Us about How the Brain Creates the Mind
Chapter 6. Emotions as Semantic Pointers: Constructive Neural Mechanisms
Chapter 7. Affect Dynamics: Iterative Reprocessing in the Production of Emotional Responses
Chapter 8. My Psychological Constructionist Perspective, with a Focus on Conscious Affective Experience
Chapter 9. Emotions as Emergent Variables
Chapter 10. Brain Mechanisms of Pleasure: The Core Affect Component of Emotion
Chapter 11. Mesolimbic Dopamine and Emotion: A Complex Contribution to a Complex Phenomenon
Chapter 12. An Approach to Mapping the Neurophysiological State of the Body to Affective Experience
Part IV. Commentary and Consilience
Chapter 13. Can an Appraisal Model Be Compatible with Psychological Constructionism?
Chapter 14. Basic Emotions, Psychological Construction, and the Problem of Variability
Chapter 15. A Sociodynamic Perspective on the Construction of Emotion
Chapter 16. Evolutionary Constraints and Cognitive Mechanisms in the Construction of an Emotion: Insights from Human and Nonhuman Primates
Part V. Integration and Reflection
Chapter 17. The Greater Constructionist Project for Emotion
Chapter 18. Construction as an Integrative Framework for the Science of the Emotion
Afterword: Emotional Construction in the Brain
The Psychological Construction of Emotion
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