Emotion Researcher

By Linda A. Camras & Joseph J. Campos. A key founding member of ISRE, Dr. Paul Ekman passed away on November 17, 2025 at the age of 91 years. Many of us consider Paul to be the “Father” of modern emotion scholarship whose early work set the stage for revival of interest in (and indeed, […] The post In Memory of Dr. Paul Ekman first appeared on Emotion Researcher .

The following text (“Getting Critical about Emotion”) is a short section from Stephen Fineman’s invited talk to a mixed audience at Birkbeck College (London, UK), in the context of the Alec Rodger Memorial Lecture (July 8th 2009). The post Honoring Members of the Academia: Stephen Fineman first appeared on Emotion Researcher .

To cite this content: Fineman S. (2024), “Getting Critical about Emotion”, Emotion Researcher, ISRE’s Sourcebook for Research on Emotion and Affect, Rebecca Dickason (Ed.), https://emotionresearcher.com/getting-critical-about-emotion/, accessed [add date]. Former Professor and Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behaviour at the School of Management at the University of Bath, UK, Stephen Fineman…

In the coming months, ISRE's Sourcebook for Research on Emotion and Affect will change its format and location. This coincides with the arrival of Rebecca Dickason as new Editor of the outlet. The post Emotion Researcher to move to a new website first appeared on Emotion Researcher .

Becoming the new Emotion Researcher Editor is a humbling experience and I will endeavour to contribute creatively to ISRE’s Sourcebook for Research on Emotion and Affect. The post A Message from the New Editor first appeared on Emotion Researcher .

This marks our final contribution as the Editors of Emotion Researcher. The post Signing off: A Message from the Outgoing Editors first appeared on Emotion Researcher .

Dear ISRE members, It is an honour to write this message to you as the new president of ISRE. The post A Few Words from Disa Sauter, ISRE President first appeared on Emotion Researcher .

I am honored to write this message to you as past president of ISRE. The post A Few Words from Ursula Hess, ISRE Past President first appeared on Emotion Researcher .

In this section, you will learn more about the new ISRE board members. Meet the new team! The post Meet the New ISRE Board Members first appeared on Emotion Researcher .

ISRE’s Early Career Researchers Section (ECRS) is a group of volunteers that develops programming and initiatives designed to benefit junior members of ISRE. The post Early Career Researchers Section (ECRS) Updates first appeared on Emotion Researcher .

This is the first time that non-psychologists have overseen Emotion Review and this sends an important message about the journal’s interdisciplinary mission. The post Update from the Editors of Emotion Review first appeared on Emotion Researcher .

With 418 submissions, 19 symposia, 161 individual talks, and 133 posters, ISRE2024 showcased a variety of cutting-edge work from psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, law, linguistics, and beyond. The post ISRE2024 in Northern Ireland: A Retrospective first appeared on Emotion Researcher .

Being privileged to be the last person he spoke to before he went into sleep from which he never awoke, Louise Sundararajan shares an account of Jim’s last day. The post A Tribute to Jim Averill, with Fond Memories first appeared on Emotion Researcher .

Introduction Grief is an emotional response to loss. But of course, not all emotional response to loss is grief. Most obviously, our emotional responses to minor or insignificant losses are not typically grief. I will begin this contribution by sketching an account of the kind of significance that makes a loss sufficient for grief. Furthermore, what makes a loss significant also explains the rela…

After a relatively long hiatus, we are excited to publish this issue devoted to the connection between emotion and feeling. Although hardly a neglected topic, the nature and role of feeling in emotion remains rather opaque and controversial, as evidenced by all three contributions to this issue. In the first invited article, Ralph Adolphs (California Institute of Technology) addresses the questio…

Living in communities is not easy; to co-exist successfully we must understand and follow certain norms or risk being shunned by our groups. Such norm understanding begins to emerge remarkably early in life1–3. Norms aimed at preserving the rights and welfare of others belong to the moral domain; norms aimed at preserving the social coordination of groups belong to the conventional domain. At aro…

Language is the repository of culture, identity and behavior labels define social situations, and the identities that we enact in them—personally performed but culturally contextualized—motivate our behaviors. Throughout these social interactions, felt emotion serves as a barometer concerning the success or failure of our attempted identity affirmations. In other words, who we are affects how we …

Psychological disorders, especially internalizing disorders like anxiety and depression, cause immense human and economic burden across the globe. Prior work shows that internalizing disorders are characterized by perturbations in emotion regulation (i.e., the strategies people use to change how they feel), with excessive use of maladaptive strategies that reduce short-term distress but maintain …

No, I am not advocating that researchers working on emotion should become cold and unsympathetic people. I am also not arguing that feelings do not accompany emotions, or are irrelevant to emotions. Indeed, I think feelings are important and fascinating phenomena well worth study. I just don’t think it is necessary to study them in a science of emotion. More than that, I think it’s generally a ba…

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 t…