Within affective science, the central line of inquiry, animated by basic emotion theory and
constructivist accounts, has been the search for one-to-one mappings between six emotions�…

The ability to measure emotional states in daily life using mobile devices has led to a surge
of exciting new research on the temporal evolution of emotions. However, much of the�…

Emotion differentiation refers to the tendency to label emotions in a granular way. While
differentiation is an important individual difference in the context of psychological well-being�…

Understanding how emotions are represented neurally is a central aim of affective
neuroscience. Despite decades of neuroimaging efforts addressing this question, it remains�…

Although it is possible to observe when another person is having an emotional moment, we
also derive information about the affective states of others from what they tell us they are�…

Questions about the nature of emotion have existed since psychology emerged as a
scientific discipline in the late 19th century (Darwin, 1872/1998; Dewey, 1895; Irons, 1897;�…

Contemporary emotion theories have come to conceptualise emotions as multicomponential
and dynamic processes that do not necessarily cohere in fixed packages and continuously�…

The tremendous variability within categories of human emotional experience receives little
empirical attention. We hypothesized that atypical instances of emotion categories (eg�…

We experience a rich variety of emotions in daily life, and a fundamental goal of affective
neuroscience is to determine how these emotions are represented in the brain. Recent�…

In everyday life, multiple sensory channels jointly trigger emotional experiences and one
channel may alter processing in another channel. For example, seeing an emotional facial�…