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13.1 Foundational and Contemporary Theories of Emotion

Arnold, M. B. (1960). Emotion and personality. New York: Columbia University Press.

Bermond, B., Nieuwenhuyse, B., Fasotti, L., & Schuerman, J. (1991). Spinal cord lesions, peripheral feedback, and intensities of emotional feelings. Cognition and Emotion, 5, 201–220.

Bosch, J. A., de Geus, E. J., Kelder, A., Veerman, E. C., Hoogstraten, J., & Amerongen, A. V. (2001). Differential effects of active versus passive coping on secretory immunity. Psychophysiology, 38(5), 836–846.

James, W. (1884). What is an emotion? Mind, 9, 188–205.

Kreibig, S. D., Wilhelm, F. H., Roth, W. T., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Cardiovascular, electrodermal, and respiratory response patterns to fear- and sadness-inducing films. Psychophysiology, 44(5), 787–806. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00550.x

Lazarus, R. S. (1991). Emotion and adaptation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Reisenzein, R. (1983). The Schachter theory of emotion: Two decades later. Psychological Bulletin, 94(2), 239–264.

Ritz, T., Thöns, M., Fahrenkrug, S., & Dahme, B. (2005). Airways, respiration, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia during picture viewing. Psychophysiology, 42(5), 568–578. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00312.x

Schachter, S., & Singer, J. E. (1962). Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state. Psychological Review, 69, 379–399. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0046234

Stephens, C. L., Christie, I. C., & Friedman, B. H. (2010). Autonomic specificity of basic emotions: Evidence from pattern classification and cluster analysis. Biological Psychology, 84(3), 463–473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.03.014

13.2 What Category of Feelings Are Considered as the “Basic Emotions”?

Ekman, P. (2003). Emotions revealed: Recognizing faces and feelings to improve communication and emotional life. Times Books/Henry Holt and Co.

Ekman, P., & Cordaro, D. (2011). What is meant by calling emotions basic. Emotion Review, 3(4), 364–370.

Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. V. (1975). Unmasking the face: A guide to recognizing emotions from facial clues. Prentice-Hall.

Koerner, N., & Antony, M. M. (2010). Special series on disgust and phobic avoidance: A commentary. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 3(1), 52–63.

Levenson, R. W., Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. V. (1990). Voluntary facial action generates emotion-specific autonomic nervous system activity. Psychophysiology, 27(4), 363–384. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1990.tb02330.x

Nummenmaa, L., Glerean, E., Hari, R., & Hietanen, J. K. (2014). Bodily maps of emotions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(2), 646–651. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321664111

Plutchik, R. (1984). Emotions and imagery. Journal of Mental Imagery, 8(4), 105–111.

Plutchik, R. (1960). The multifactor-analytic theory of emotion. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 50, 153–171.

Saarimäki, H., Gotsopoulos, A., Jääskeläinen, I. P., Lampinen, J., Vuilleumier, P., Hari, R., Sams, M., & Nummenmaa, L. (2016). Discrete neural signatures of basic emotions. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y.: 1991), 26(6), 2563–2573. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhv086

Uvnäs-Moberg, K. (1998). Oxytocin may mediate the benefits of positive social interaction and emotions. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 23(8), 819–835. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0306-4530(98)00056-0

13.3 What Is the Contribution of Brain Structures in Emotional States?

Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., Damasio, H., & Damasio, A. (1994). Impaired recognition of emotion in facial expressions following bilateral damage to the human amygdala. Nature, 372(6507), 669–672. https://doi.org/10.1038/372669a0

Barrett, L. F., & Satpute, A. B. (2019). Historical pitfalls and new directions in the neuroscience of emotion. Neuroscience Letters, 693, 9–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2017.07.045

Boyden, E. S., Zhang, F., Bamberg, E., Nagel, G., & Deisseroth, K. (2005). Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity. Nature Neuroscience, 8(9), 1263–1268. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1525

Cardinale, E. M., Reber, J., O'Connell, K., Turkeltaub, P. E., Tranel, D., Buchanan, T. W., & Marsh, A. A. (2021). Bilateral amygdala damage linked to impaired ability to predict others' fear but preserved moral judgements about causing others fear. Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 288(1943), 20202651. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2651

Feinstein, J. S., Adolphs, R., Damasio, A., & Tranel, D. (2011). The human amygdala and the induction and experience of fear. Current Biology: CB, 21(1), 34–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.11.042

Feinstein, J. S., Buzza, C., Hurlemann, R., Follmer, R. L., Dahdaleh, N. S., Coryell, W. H., Welsh, M. J., Tranel, D., & Wemmie, J. A. (2013). Fear and panic in humans with bilateral amygdala damage. Nature Neuroscience, 16(3), 270–272. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3323

Hess, W. R. (1933). Der Schlaf. Klinische Wochenschrift, 12, 129–134.

Kaloupek, D. G., & Levis, D. J. (1983). Issues in the assessment of fear: Response concordance and prediction of avoidance behavior. Journal of Behavioral Assessment, 5, 239–260.

Klüver, H., & Bucy, P. C. (1938). An analysis of certain effects of bilateral temporal lobectomy in the rhesus monkey, with special reference to “psychic blindness”. Journal of Psychology, 5, 33–54.

Kwon, J. T., Nakajima, R., Kim, H. S., Jeong, Y., Augustine, G. J., & Han, J. H. (2014). Optogenetic activation of presynaptic inputs in lateral amygdala forms associative fear memory. Learning & Memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 21(11), 627–633. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.035816.114

Lee, S. C., Amir, A., Haufler, D., & Pare, D. (2017). Differential recruitment of competing valence-related amygdala networks during anxiety. Neuron, 96(1), 81–88.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.002

MacLean, P. D. (1952). Some psychiatric implications of physiological studies on frontotemporal portion of limbic system (visceral brain). Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 4(4), 407–418. https://doi.org/10.1016/0013-4694(52)90073-4

Markowitsch, H. J., Calabrese, P., Würker, M., Durwen, H. F., Kessler, J., Babinsky, R., Brechtelsbauer, D., Heuser, L., & Gehlen, W. (1994). The amygdala's contribution to memory--a study on two patients with Urbach-Wiethe disease. Neuroreport, 5(11), 1349–1352.

Papez, J. W. (1937). A proposed mechanism of emotion. Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry, 38, 725–743.

Pitkänen, A., & Amaral, D. G. (1998). Organization of the intrinsic connections of the monkey amygdaloid complex: projections originating in the lateral nucleus. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 398(3), 431–458. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19980831)398:3<431::aid-cne9>3.0.co;2-0

Sah, P. (2017). Fear, anxiety, and the amygdala. Neuron, 96(1), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.013

Sangha, S., Diehl, M. M., Bergstrom, H. C., & Drew, M. R. (2020). Know safety, no fear. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 108, 218–230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.11.006

Staut, C. C., & Naidich, T. P. (1998). Urbach-Wiethe disease (Lipoid proteinosis). Pediatric Neurosurgery, 28(4), 212–214. https://doi.org/10.1159/000028653

Tranel, D., & Hyman, B. T. (1990). Neuropsychological correlates of bilateral amygdala damage. Archives of Neurology, 47(3), 349–355. https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1990.00530030131029

Tranel, D., Gullickson, G., Koch, M., & Adolphs, R. (2006). Altered experience of emotion following bilateral amygdala damage. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 11(3), 219–232. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546800444000281

13.4 Mood and Emotional Disorders Associated with Depression

Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., & Damasio, A. R. (2003). Dissociable neural systems for recognizing emotions. Brain and Cognition, 52(1), 61–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0278-2626(03)00009-5

Beer, J. S., John, O. P., Scabini, D., & Knight, R. T. (2006). Orbitofrontal cortex and social behavior: integrating self-monitoring and emotion-cognition interactions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(6), 871–879. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.6.871

Dixon, M. L., Thiruchselvam, R., Todd, R., & Christoff, K. (2017). Emotion and the prefrontal cortex: An integrative review. Psychological Bulletin, 143(10), 1033–1081. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000096

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Phan, K. L., Fitzgerald, D. A., Nathan, P. J., Moore, G. J., Uhde, T. W., & Tancer, M. E. (2005). Neural substrates for voluntary suppression of negative affect: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Biological Psychiatry, 57(3), 210–219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.10.030

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