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Chapter 2 Thinking critically about emotion theories
The loss of a concern for ecological validity
Representations of experiential and theoretical constructs
Being sensitive to the evolution of concepts
Avoiding the ontological trap
Thinking in terms of complementarities
Contrasting intellectual traditions: British Enlightenment and German Romantic thought
Goethe as a role model for ‘‘the poetics of science’’
Three facets of an emerging scientific self
Working with hierarchies: the staircase metaphor
The staircase of the mind
The staircase of the self
The staircase of the emotions: affects, feelings, and emotions
The bottom-up perspective
The staircase of the arts
Chapter 3 The depth of affective processing
Levels of affective processing
The experience and expression of ‘‘real’’ emotions
Explaining emotions in terms of non-emotional processes
James Russell and core affect theory
Lisa Barrett and conceptual-act theory
Dissociating lived experiences from accounts of emotional processes
Philosophers and the problem of ‘‘natural kinds’’
Summary of the nativist and constructionist perspectives
Chapter 4 Emotional experiences as reactions
From natural kinds to emotional experiences
Homologies as structural resonances across species, cultures, and time
Fundamental life themes and related complementary pairs of primary emotions
Self-preservation and assertion
Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540): the psychologically modern mind
The framing and appreciation of emotional experiences
William James’s peripheralism
A holistic approach to psychology
The contribution of organismic psychology
The psychodynamic contribution
The contribution of existential phenomenology
Chapter 5 Antecedents of the motivational action models
Energizing purposive action
The two faces of emotion and adaptation
Laboratory origins of a dualist model: Emotion = Cognition + Arousal
Follow-up studies in America
Unfolding purposive behaviourism
Eponymy and Schachter’s two-factor theory
The role of appraisal in feeling and emotion
Family resemblances among theories
Chapter 6 Emotional Phase Theory
Contrasting approaches to representation
The reaction model: interpreted situations and emotional experiences
The action model: appraised situations and motivated actions
Modulating affective states
The threshold of awareness
Affects, feelings, and emotions
Solomon and Corbit’s ‘‘opponent-process’’ theory
Main principles of Emotional Phase Theory
(1) Mainstream Controversy
(3) Approaches and Schools in Psychology
Chapter 7 Neural underpinnings of emotional experiences and feeling-based actions
Reaction model: what is it?
Action model: what’s to be done
Heinz Werner: from syncretic to abstract thinking
Don Tucker: Mind from body
Tucker and Luu: Cognition and neural development
Tucker’s Neural Architecture
Other voices from neuroscience
Morris Moscovitch et al.: Research on autobiographical memories
Chapter 8 The aesthetic imagination
Adopting an aesthetic attitude
Information theory and the cognitive-motivational approach
Daniel Berlyne (1924-1976)
A holistic Gestalt approach
The psychodynamic approach
Phenomenological and existential psychology
Neuroaesthetics: art on the brain
Chapter 9 Affective processes and aesthetic reception
Contrasting national cultural traditions and the social self
Optimizing aesthetic distance and the personal self
Depth of affective and cognitive aesthetic processing
Feelings: hedonic psychophysics and affective covariation
Emotional themes: attachment, assertion, and absorption
Attachment: happiness and sadness
Assertion: fear and anger
Absorption: interest and disgust
High and Popular Art Culture wars
Chapter 10 The ‘‘aesthetics of emotion’’ as analogy and metaphor
External and internal constraint
Implications for an aesthetics of emotion
Content- and act-oriented metaphors related to emotion and aesthetics
Relational thinking in the generation and reception of metaphors
‘‘Interanimations’’ between subject matter and style
Chapter 11 Creative practices of contemporary artists
The curatorial process: Ihor Holubizky
Focusing on artistic practice
My perspective as an artist
What I am trying to achieve
Immersive reality projects
Chapter 12 The cave artist’s share
A modern view of cave art
Conventionalist and reductionist views of cave art
Tracing the origins and development of cave art
A new approach to the origins of cave art
After the social brain hypothesis: hemispheric integration
Neurochemical and epigenetic influences
Chapter 13 Studies in aesthetic reception
A curated series of experiments in visual and literary reception
Fundamental perceptual qualities: hard versus soft edges
Edge detection in Gestural Expressionism
The prefrontal cortex: adopting an ‘‘aesthetic attitude,’’ and interpreting soft-edge images
Judging moral and facial beauty
Feelings and early global processing
Comparing the effects of allegorical subject matter and rhetorical challenges
Generating and receiving interpretations of short stories
Emotional episode from Araby by James Joyce
Descriptive episode from A painful case by James Joyce
Ways of interpreting figurative scenes
Close and far reading styles
Emotional episode from The dead by James Joyce
Descriptive episode from Counterparts by James Joyce
Emotions and feelings elicited by artworks
Pace and depth of the reading process
Experience-oriented passage from The salt garden by Margaret Atwood
Action-oriented passage from The lost salt gift of blood by Alistair MacLeod
Comparing fresh emotions and emotional memories
Hedonic psychophysics and the congruity principle
Scented experiences of paintings
Scented experiences of literature
Scented memories of literature
Chapter 14 In search of a unified emotion theory
A social thought experiment
The contribution of aesthetics to Emotional Phase Theory
The future of an illusion (allusion)
The Aesthetics of Emotion
：Up the Down Staircase of the Mind-Body
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