Affective science - Topics

Are the six basic emotion categories actually distinguishable by observers? Facial emotion recognition accuracy across cultures: what holds up and what does not Microexpressions and lie detection: what the research actually supports Neural correlates of reappraisal: what does the fMRI literature consistently show? How do you validate an emotion measurement instrument across languages? Affect heuristic: how a good or bad feeling shortcuts a decision Negativity bias: why bad events stick harder than good ones Measuring emotional intensity in the lab without asking people to rate it Why has the emotion regulation questionnaire been criticized for low ecological validity? Habitual versus instructed regulation: how do researchers separate trait from state? The replication fights that made emotion psychology a contact sport Effect sizes in emotion experiments are usually tiny: what should that mean for theory? Reappraisal vs suppression: which emotion regulation strategy does the evidence favor? Perceiving emotion in music and in abstract moving shapes Cultural variation in what counts as successful emotion regulation Self-report vs physiological measures of emotion: what do you do when they disagree? The funding politics of emotion research: why does fear get more money than sadness? Emotion perception under time pressure and in the periphery of vision How do emotion psychologists get from a PhD to a lab of their own? How subjective well-being gets measured — surveys vs experience sampling Klaus Scherer and the component process model of emotion Does money buy happiness? What the income satiation research shows Do animals have emotions or are we projecting The gap between reported emotional well-being and how people actually behave Subliminal emotional cues: can a face you never saw change your mood? How context changes the emotion you perceive in the same expression Affective realism: why what you feel seems obviously true Why has affective science struggled to replicate classic emotion priming effects? Schachter and Singer's two-factor theory: arousal plus a label Why positive emotions widen attention: eye-tracking evidence What does affective science study that psychology alone does not? Paul Ekman vs Lisa Feldman Barrett: the fight over whether emotions are universal