mental state
A mental state, or a mental property, is a state of mind of a person. Mental states comprise a diverse class, including perception, pain/pleasure experience, belief, desire, intention, emotion, and memory. There is controversy concerning the exact ...
s brought on by
neurophysiological
Neurophysiology is a branch of physiology and neuroscience concerned with the functions of the nervous system and their mechanisms. The term ''neurophysiology'' originates from the Greek word ''νεῦρον'' ("nerve") and ''physiology'' (whic ...
changes, variously associated with
thought
In their most common sense, the terms thought and thinking refer to cognitive processes that can happen independently of sensory stimulation. Their most paradigmatic forms are judging, reasoning, concept formation, problem solving, and de ...
s,
feelings
According to the '' APA Dictionary of Psychology'', a feeling is "a self-contained phenomenal experience"; feelings are "subjective, evaluative, and independent of the sensations, thoughts, or images evoking them". The term ''feeling'' is closel ...
pleasure
Pleasure is experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of something. It contrasts with pain or suffering, which are forms of feeling bad. It is closely related to value, desire and action: humans and other conscious animals find ...
Jesse Prinz
Jesse J. Prinz is an American philosopher who is Distinguished Professor of philosophy and Director of the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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– American philosopher who specializes in emotion, moral psychology, aesthetics and consciousness
* James A. Russell (born 1947) – American psychologist who developed or co-developed the PAD emotional state model, PAD theory of environmental impact, emotion classification#Circumplex model, circumplex model of affect, prototype theory of emotion concepts, facial expression#Criticism, a critique of the hypothesis of universal recognition of emotion from facial expression, concept of core affect, developmental theory of differentiation of emotion concepts, and, more recently, the theory of the emotional expression#Psychological construction model, psychological construction of emotion
* Klaus Scherer (born 1943) – Swiss psychologist and former director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva; he specializes in the psychology of emotion
* Ronald de Sousa (born 1940) – English–Canadian philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of emotions, philosophy of mind and philosophy of biology
* Jonathan H. Turner (born 1942) – American sociologist from the University of California, Riverside, who is a general sociological theorist with specialty areas including the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institutions, social stratification, and bio-sociology
* Dominique Moïsi (born 1946) – authored a book titled ''The Geopolitics of Emotion'' focusing on emotions related to globalization
See also
* Affect measures
* Affective forecasting
* Affective neuroscience
* Coping
* Emotion and memory
* ''Emotion Review''
* Emotional intelligence
* Emotional isolation
* Emotionally focused therapy
* Emotions in virtual communication
* Facial feedback hypothesis
* Fuzzy-trace theory
* Group emotion
* Homeostatic feeling
* Moral emotions
* Social sharing of emotions
* Two-factor theory of emotion
* Kuleshov effect
References
Further reading
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* Glinka, Lukasz Andrzej (2013) ''Theorizing Emotions: A Brief Study of Psychological, Philosophical, and Cultural Aspects of Human Emotions''. Great Abington: Cambridge International Science Publishing. .
* Dana Sugu & Amita Chaterje "Flashback: Reshuffling Emotions" , ''International Journal on Humanistic Ideology'', Vol. 3 No. 1, Spring–Summer 2010.
* Cornelius, R. (1996). ''The science of emotion''. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
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* González, Ana Marta (2012). ''The Emotions and Cultural Analysis''. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
* Paul Ekman, Ekman, P. (1999). Basic Emotions . In: T. Dalgleish and M. Power (Eds.). ''Handbook of Cognition and Emotion''. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Sussex, UK:.
* Nico Frijda, Frijda, N.H. (1986). ''The Emotions''. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme an Cambridge University Press
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* Hogan, Patrick Colm. (2011) ''What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* Hordern, Joshua. (2013) ''Political Affections: Civic Participation and Moral Theology'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.
* LeDoux, J.E. (1986). "The neurobiology of emotion". Chap. 15 in J.E. LeDoux & W. Hirst (Eds.) ''Mind and Brain: dialogues in cognitive neuroscience''. New York: Cambridge.
* Mandler, G. (1984). ''Mind and Body: Psychology of emotion and stress''. New York: Norton Wayback Machine *
* Plutchik, R. (1980). "A general psychoevolutionary theory of emotion". In R. Plutchik & H. Kellerman (Eds.), ''Emotion: Theory, research, and experience: Vol. 1. Theories of emotion'' (pp.3–33). New York: Academic.
* Roberts, Robert. (2003). ''Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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* Solomon, R. (1993). ''The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life''. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing.
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* b:Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience/Motivation and Emotion, Wikibook Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience