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“[An] excellent (and nearly exhaustive) reference…for emotion scholars in the social sciences and humanities.”

—Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture


“The editors of the fourth edition of this handbook have surpassed their outstanding third edition…to produce a work that provides not only a snapshot of the state-of-the-art aspects of emotion science, but also a credible and revealing vision of the future of the field. Of course, the editors are leaders in their respective areas of study; in addition, they have a rich and comprehensive understanding of the field of emotion science as a whole, especially its expanding borders. In the eight years since the last edition was published, the field has grown enormously; the new edition reflects that growth and more….Noteworthy in this regard is the inclusion of chapters that incorporate some of the new methodologies and approaches that are changing the ways in which individuals think about emotions, as well as the expansion of the final section of the book, ‘Specific Emotions.’ There is no other handbook of this quality and scope. This text is absolutely essential.”

—Choice Reviews


“This book appears to be the gold standard in the field based on the distinguished editors and authors and the fact that it continues to be revised as new theories and research occur. All in all, this is a tremendous contribution to psychology and our understanding of human nature. ****!”

—Doody's Review Service (on the third edition)


“Simply put, it is the best single-volume compendium of the state of the art in emotion research.”

—Cognition and Emotion (on the first edition)


“Offering the most comprehensive coverage imaginable, this handbook continues to occupy a unique position in the emotion field. Experts will find it invaluable for keeping current, and novices will find it an appealing and accessible introduction.”

—Susan T. Fiske, PhD, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs, Princeton University


“The fourth edition of Handbook of Emotions once again assembles a brilliant set of chapters from the world’s foremost experts on every aspect of emotion. It is easy to see why this accessible and authoritative compendium has become, and still remains, the bible of the field. An essential resource for researchers and students alike.”

—Daniel Gilbert, PhD, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

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Table of Contents

I. Interdisciplinary Perspectives

1. The Philosophy of Emotions, Andrea Scarantino

2. The History of Emotions, Ute Frevert

3. The Sociology of Emotion, Katherine J. Lively & Emi A. Weed

4. Emotions in Music, Literature, and Film, P. N. Johnson-Laird & Keith Oatley

5. Affect in Economic Decision Making, Karolina M. Lempert & Elizabeth A. Phelps

6. Computational Models of Emotion as Psychological Tools, Stacy Marsella & Jonathan Gratch

II. Biological Perspectives

7. From Pleasure to Happiness: “Liking” and “Wanting” in Mind and Brain, Kent C. Berridge & Morten L. Kringelbach

8. Neural Fingerprinting: Meta-Analysis, Variation, and the Search for Brain-Based Essences in the Science of Emotions, Elizabeth Clark-Polner, Tor D. Wager, Ajay B. Satpute, & Lisa Feldman Barrett

9. Emotion and the Autonomic Nervous System, Wendy Berry Mendes

10. Genetic Contributions to Affect and Emotion, Yuliya S. Nikolova, Elena G. Davis, & Ahmad R. Hariri

11. Olfaction: Explicit and Implicit Emotional Processing, Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones, Patricia J. Wilson, & Robin Freyberg

12. Interoception and Emotion: A Neuroanatomical Perspective, A. D. (Bud) Craig

13. The Affect of Taste and Olfaction: The Key to Survival, Linda Bartoshuk and Derek J. Snyder

III. Developmental Perspectives

14. The Development of Facial Expressions: Current Perspectives on Infant Emotions, Linda A. Camras, Serah S. Fatani, Brittney R. Fraumeni, & Michael M. Shuster

15. The Emergence of Human Emotions, Michael Lewis

16. Understanding Emotion, Paul L. Harris, Marc de Rosnay, & Francisco Pons

17. The Development of Children’s Concepts of Emotion, Sherri C. Widen

18. Emotion and Aging, Mara Mather & Allison Ponzio

19. The Interplay of Motivation and Emotion: View from Adulthood and Old Age, Molly Sands, Nhi Ngo, & Derek M. Isaacowitz

20. Emotional Development in Adolescence, Leah H. Somerville

IV. Social and Personality Perspectives

21. Gender and Emotion: Theory, Findings, and Content, Leslie R. Brody, Judith A. Hall, & Lynissa R. Stokes

22. The Cultural Psychology of Emotions, Batja Mesquita, Jozefien De Leersnyder, & Michael Boiger

23. Intergroup Emotions, Eliot R. Smith & Diane M. Mackie

24. Social Functions of Emotion and Emotion Regulation, Agneta H. Fischer & Antony S. R. Manstead

25. Social Pain and Social Pleasure: Two Overlooked but Fundamental Mammalian Emotions?, Naomi I. Eisenberger

26. Emotion Regulation: A Valuation Perspective, Guarav Suri & James J. Gross

27. Expression of Emotion, Dacher Keltner, Jessica Tracy, Disa A. Sauter, Daniel C. Cordaro, and Galen McNeil

28. Emotional Body Perception in the Wild, Beatrice de Gelder

29. Form and Function in Facial Expressive Behavior, Daniel H. Lee & Adam K. Anderson

V. Cognitive Perspectives

30. Emotional Intelligence, Marc A. Brackett, Susan E. Rivers, Michelle C. Bertoli, & Peter Salovey

31. New Light on the Affect–Cognition Connection, Gerald L. Clore & Alexander J. Schiller

32. A Fundamental Role for Conceptual Processing in Emotion, Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall & Lawrence W. Barsalou

33. Memory and Emotion, Elizabeth A. Kensinger & Daniel L. Schacter

34. Language and Emotion: Putting Words into Feelings and Feelings into Words, Kristen A. Lindquist, Maria Gendron, & Ajay B. Satpute

35. Emotion and Attention, Greg Hajcak, Felicia Jackson, Jamie Ferri, & Anna Weinberg

VI. Health-Related Perspectives

36. Emotions and Health, Laura D. Kubzansky & Ashley Winning

37. Neuroendocrine and Neuroimmunological Mechanisms of Emotion, Aric A. Prather

38. Emotion Disturbances as Transdiagnostic Processes in Psychopathology, Anne M. Kring & Jasmine Mote

39. The Clinical Application of Emotion in Psychotherapy, Leslie S. Greenberg

40. Eat, Drink, and Be Sedentary: A Review of Health Behavior’s Effects on Emotions and Affective States, and Implications for Interventions, Elissa Epel, Aric A. Prather, Eli Puterman, & A. Janet Tomiyama

41. Stress and Emotion: Embodied, in Context, and Across the Lifespan, Barbara Ganzel, Jason R. D. Rarick, & Pamela Morris

42. Emotion-Related Symptoms of Neurodegenerative Dementias, Bradford C. Dickerson

VII. Specific Emotions

43. Fear and Anxiety, Kevin S. LaBar

44. Anger, Eddie Harmon-Jones & Cindy Harmon-Jones

45. Self-Conscious Emotions: Embarrassment, Pride, Shame, Guilt, and Hubris, Michael Lewis

46. Disgust, Paul Rozin, Jonathan Haidt, & Clark McCauley

47. Gratitude and Compassion, David DeSteno, Paul Condon, & Leah Dickens

48. Love: Positivity Resonance as a Fresh, Evidence-Based Perspective on an Age-Old Topic, Barbara L. Fredrickson

49. Sadness and Depression, Christian A. Webb & Diego A. Pizzagalli

50. Empathy, Jamil Zaki & Kevin Ochsner

Author Index

Subject Index

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About the Editors

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University, with research appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and is a faculty member at the MGH Center for Law, Brain and Behavior. Dr. Barrett’s research focuses on the nature of emotion from both psychological and neuroscience perspectives, and incorporates insights from anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and the history of psychology. She is the recipient of the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health, among numerous other awards, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the APS. She was a founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Emotion Review and cofounder of the Society for Affective Science. Dr. Barrett has published more than 170 papers and book chapters.

• Author's website
• All titles by Lisa Feldman Barrett

Michael Lewis, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is also Professor of Psychology, Education, Cognitive Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Social Work at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he serves on the Executive Committee of the Center for Cognitive Science and is an Associate of the Center for Mathematics, Science and Computer Education. Dr. Lewis is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and is currently in the top 1.5% of scientists referenced in the Social Science Index. He is a recipient of the Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the APA, the Hedi Levenback Pioneer Award from the New York Zero-to-Three Network, and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development Award from the Society for Research in Child Development. Dr. Lewis has published over 450 journal articles and book chapters and 35 books, including The Rise of Consciousness and the Development of Emotional Life, which won the William James Book Award from APA Division 1 (Society for General Psychology), Social Cognition and the Acquisition of Self, Children's Emotions and Moods, Shame: The Exposed Self, and Altering Fate.

• All titles by Michael Lewis

Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where she is Codirector of the Center for Sensory Science and Innovation and former Director of the Human Emotions Lab. Dr. Haviland-Jones has written extensively about emotional development for over 25 years. She is coauthor of The Hidden Genius of Emotion: Lifespan Transformations of Personality and has published over 60 articles, chapters, and books on emotion and related issues. Her long-time research interests have included lifespan changes in displays of emotion, gender differences in emotions, and the organizing effects of emotion on cognition and personality. Recently she has initiated research on the chemosensory aspects of emotion communication, called “olfactics.”

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Contributors

Adam K. Anderson, PhD, Department of Human Development, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Lawrence W. Barsalou, PhD, School of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Linda Bartoshuk, PhD, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Kent C. Berridge, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Michelle C. Bertoli, MA, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence,Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Michael Boiger, PhD, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Marc A. Brackett, PhD, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Leslie R. Brody, PhD, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

Linda A. Camras, PhD, Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

Elizabeth Clark-Polner, PhD, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut

Gerald L. Clore, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Paul Condon, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Daniel C. Cordaro, PhD, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

A. D. (Bud) Craig, PhD, Department of Neuroscience, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Elena Goetz Davis, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Beatrice de Gelder, PhD, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Jozefien De Leersnyder, PhD, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Marc de Rosnay, PhD, Early Start Research Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

David DeSteno, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Leah Dickens, PhD, Department of Psychology, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts

Bradford C. Dickerson, MD, Frontotemporal Disorders Unit and Laboratory of Neuroimaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts

Naomi I. Eisenberger, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Elissa Epel, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Serah S. Fatani, MA , Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

Jamie Ferri, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Agneta H. Fischer, PhD, Psychology Research Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Brittney R. Fraumeni, PhD, Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

Barbara L. Fredrickson, PhD, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Ute Frevert, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Robin Freyberg, PhD, Department of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York, New York

Barbara Ganzel, PhD, Department of Human Development, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Maria Gendron, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Jonathan Gratch, PhD, Institute for Creative Technologies, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Playa Vista, California

Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

James J. Gross, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Jonathan Haidt, PhD, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, New York

Greg Hajcak, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York

Judith A. Hall, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Ahmad R. Hariri, PhD, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Cindy Harmon-Jones, PhD, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Eddie Harmon-Jones, PhD, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Paul L. Harris, DPhil, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones, PhD, Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick

Derek M. Isaacowitz, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Felicia Jackson, MA , Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York

P. N. Johnson-Laird, PhD, Department of Psychology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, New Jersey

Dacher Keltner, PhD, Department of Psychology,University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California

Elizabeth A. Kensinger, PhD, Department of Psychology, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts

Ann M. Kring, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California

Morten L. Kringelbach, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Laura D. Kubzansky, PhD, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

Kevin S. LaBar, PhD, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Daniel H. Lee, PhD, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado

Karolina M. Lempert, MA , Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York

Michael Lewis, PhD, Institute for the Study of Child Development, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Kristen A. Lindquist, PhD, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Katherine J. Lively, PhD, Department of Sociology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Diane M. Mackie, PhD, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Antony S. R. Manstead, PhD, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Stacy Marsella, PhD, Institute for Creative Technologies, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Playa Vista, California

Mara Mather, PhD, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Clark McCauley, PhD, Department of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Galen McNeil, BA , Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Wendy Berry Mendes, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Batja Mesquita, PhD, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Pamela A. Morris, PhD, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, New York, New York

Jasmine Mote, MA, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California

Nhi Ngo, BA, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Yuliya S. Nikolova, PhD, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Keith Oatley, PhD, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kevin Ochsner, PhD, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, New York

Elizabeth A. Phelps, PhD, Department of Psychology, Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, and The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York

Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD, Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts

Francisco Pons, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Allison Ponzio, BA, Emotion and Cognition Lab, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Aric A. Prather, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Eli Puterman, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Jason R. D. Rarick, MA, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, New York, New York

Susan E. Rivers, PhD, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Paul Rozin, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Peter Salovey, PhD, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Molly Sands, MA , Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Ajay B. Satpute, PhD, Department of Psychology, Pomona College, Claremont, California

Disa A. Sauter, PhD, Social Psychology Program, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Andrea Scarantino, PhD, Department of Philosophy, Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Daniel L. Schacter, PhD, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Alexander J. Schiller, MA, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Michael M. Shuster, PhD, Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

Eliot R. Smith, PhD, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana

Derek J. Snyder, PhD, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Leah H. Somerville, PhD, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Lynissa R. Stokes, PhD, School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

Gaurav Suri, PhD, Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California

A. Janet Tomiyama, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Jessica Tracy, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Tor D. Wager, PhD, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado

Christian A. Webb, PhD, Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts

Emi A. Weed, BA, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Anna Weinberg, PhD, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sherri C. Widen, PhD, Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, Stanford, California

Patricia Wilson, PhD, Department of Psychology, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Ashley Winning, ScD, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

Jamil Zaki, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California

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Audience

Researchers and students in social, personality, developmental, clinical, and health psychology; psychiatry; and neuropsychology; also of interest to mental health clinicians.

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Course Use

Serves as a text in graduate-level courses on emotions.

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Previous editions published by Guilford:

Third Edition, © 2008
ISBN: 9781609180447

Second Edition, © 2000
ISBN: 9781593850296

First Edition, © 1993
ISBN: 9780898629880

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New to this edition:

• Chapters on the mechanisms, processes, and influences that contribute to emotions (such as genetics, the brain, neuroendocrine processes, language, the senses of taste and smell).
• Chapters on emotion in adolescence andolder age, and in neurodegenerative dementias.
• Chapters on facial expressions and emotional body language.
• Chapters on stress, health, gratitude, love, and empathy.
• Many new authors and topics; extensively revised with the latest theoretical and methodological innovations.