Feelings, and the Multicomponential Approach to Emotions | Emotion Researcher

With the rise of affectivism (Dukes et al., 2021), affective scientists are increasingly investigating the mechanisms that underly emotions and their interactions with cognitive processes such as attention, memory, and decision-making. While intense debates exist in our field, it seems to me that there are also important agreements that have been reached. I argue below that whereas most current theories of emotion adopt a “multiaspect” perspective to emotion, with feeling being one aspect (or...