Cultural psychology—the research field focusing on the mutual constitution of culture and
the mind—has made great strides by documenting robust cultural variations in how people …

Scholarly debates about the nature of human emotion traditionally pit biological and cultural
influences against one another. Although many existing theories acknowledge the role of …

Understanding emotion expressed in language has a wide range of applications, from
building empathetic chatbots to detecting harmful online behavior. Advancement in this area …

Understanding the degree to which human facial expressions co-vary with specific social
contexts across cultures is central to the theory that emotions enable adaptive responses to …

How do experiences in nature or in spiritual contemplation or in being moved by music or
with psychedelics promote mental and physical health? Our proposal in this article is awe …

This article considers the status and study of “context” in psychological science through the
lens of research on emotional expressions. The article begins by updating three well-trod …

Within affective science, the central line of inquiry, animated by basic emotion theory and
constructivist accounts, has been the search for one-to-one mappings between six emotions …

What would a comprehensive atlas of human emotions include? For 50 years, scientists
have sought to map emotion-related experience, expression, physiology, and recognition in …

Since the publication of our first text on social cognition, a lot has changed for us personally
(children come and gone, grandchildren have arrived, new jobs, new houses) and …

What is the nature of the feelings evoked by music? We investigated how people represent
the subjective experiences associated with Western and Chinese music and the form in …