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The Psychological Construction of Emotion
he Psychological Construction of Emotion presents contemporary theory and research on emotions as constructed psychological events, rather than as fixed and biologically predetermined entities. The volume introduces the assumptions, hypotheses, and scientific methods underlying psychological constructionist approaches to emotion.\\r\\nContributors examine the neurobiological, cognitive, perceptual, and social processes involved in emotional experience. The book addresses fundamental questions about how the brain creates emotional experiences, how basic psychological ingredients combine to produce emotions, and how emotions such as sadness, anger, and fear should be understood scientifically.\\r\\nThe volume also examines the relationship between psychological constructionism and other major theories of emotion, including basic-emotion and appraisal approaches. The editors\\\' introductory and concluding chapters highlight major themes, debates, and future directions in the scientific study of emotion.\\r\\n\\r\\nChapter 1. An Introduction to Psychological Construction\\r\\n\\r\\nPart I. Foundations\\r\\nChapter 2. Mental Mechanisms and Psychological Construction\\r\\nChapter 3. Ten Common Misconceptions about Psychological Construction Theories of Emotion\\r\\n\\r\\nPart II. Psychological Construction Theories\\r\\nChapter 4. The Conceptual Act Theory: A Roadmap\\r\\nChapter 5. The Neuroscience of Construction: What Neuroimaging Approaches Can Tell Us about How the Brain Creates the Mind\\r\\nChapter 6. Emotions as Semantic Pointers: Constructive Neural Mechanisms\\r\\nChapter 7. Affect Dynamics: Iterative Reprocessing in the Production of Emotional Responses\\r\\nChapter 8. My Psychological Constructionist Perspective, with a Focus on Conscious Affective Experience\\r\\nChapter 9. Emotions as Emergent Variables\\r\\n\\r\\nPart III. Core Affect\\r\\nChapter 10. Brain Mechanisms of Pleasure: The Core Affect Component of Emotion\\r\\nChapter 11. Mesolimbic Dopamine and Emotion: A Complex Contribution to a Complex Phenomenon\\r\\nChapter 12. An Approach to Mapping the Neurophysiological State of the Body to Affective Experience\\r\\n\\r\\nPart IV. Commentary and Consilience\\r\\nChapter 13. Can an Appraisal Model Be Compatible with Psychological Constructionism?\\r\\nChapter 14. Basic Emotions, Psychological Construction, and the Problem of Variability\\r\\nChapter 15. A Sociodynamic Perspective on the Construction of Emotion\\r\\nChapter 16. Evolutionary Constraints and Cognitive Mechanisms in the Construction of an Emotion: Insights from Human and Nonhuman Primates\\r\\n\\r\\nPart V. Integration and Reflection\\r\\nChapter 17. The Greater Constructionist Project for Emotion\\r\\nChapter 18. Construction as an Integrative Framework for the Science of the Emotion\\r\\n\\r\\nAfterword: Emotional Construction in the Brain\\r\\n\\r\\nIndex
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