Toc: Title Page
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About the Editors
Contributors
Acknowledgments
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An Introduction to Psychological Construction
LISA FELDMAN BARRETT and JAMES A. RUSSELL
PART I. FOUNDATIONS
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Mental Mechanisms and Psychological Construction
MITCHELL HERSCHBACH and WILLIAM BECHTEL
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Ten Common Misconceptions about Psychological Construction Theories of Emotion
LISA FELDMAN BARRETT
PART II. PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION THEORIES
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The Conceptual Act Theory: A Roadmap
LISA FELDMAN BARRETT, CHRISTINE D. WILSON-MENDENHALL, and LAWRENCE W. BARSALOU
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The Neuroscience of Construction: What Neuroimaging Approaches Can Tell Us about How the Brain Creates the Mind
SUZANNE OOSTERWIJK, ALEXANDRA TOUROUTOGLOU, and KRISTEN A. LINDQUIST
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Emotions as Semantic Pointers: Constructive Neural Mechanisms
PAUL THAGARD and TOBIAS SCHRÖDER
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Affect Dynamics: Iterative Reprocessing in the Production of Emotional Responses
WILLIAM A. CUNNINGHAM, KRISTEN DUNFIELD, and PAUL E. STILLMAN
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My Psychological Constructionist Perspective, with a Focus on Conscious Affective Experience
JAMES A. RUSSELL
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Emotions as Emergent Variables
JAMES A. COAN and MARLEN Z. GONZALEZ
PART III. CORE AFFECT
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Brain Mechanisms of Pleasure: The Core Affect Component of Emotion
MORTEN L. KRINGELBACH and KENT C. BERRIDGE
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Mesolimbic Dopamine and Emotion: A Complex Contribution to a Complex Phenomenon
JOHN D. SALAMONE, MERCÈ CORREA, PATRICK A. RANDALL, and ERIC J. NUNES
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An Approach to Mapping the Neurophysiological State of the Body to Affective Experience
IAN R. KLECKNER and KAREN S. QUIGLEY
PART IV. COMMENTARY AND CONSILIENCE
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Can an Appraisal Model Be Compatible with Psychological Constructionism?
ANDREW ORTONY and GERALD CLORE
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Basic Emotions, Psychological Construction, and the Prob