This paper provides a comprehensive overview of affective computing systems for facial
expression recognition (FER) research in naturalistic contexts. The first section presents an …

Complementary evidence from narrative literature reviews and meta-analyses leads to the
conclusion that much research suffers from a lack of attention to the context in which …

Each organism must regulate its internal state in a metabolically efficient way as it interacts
in space and time with an ever-changing and only partly predictable world. Success in this …

Is there a universal mapping of physiology to emotion, or do these mappings vary
substantially by person or situation? Psychologists, philosophers, and neuroscientists have …

Executive function (EF) skills are a set of attention-regulation skills involved in intentional,
goal-directed behavior that include (but are not limited to) the cool EF skills of working …

The ongoing debate between basic emotion theories (BETs) and the theory of constructed
emotion (TCE) hampers progress in the field of emotion research. Providing a new …

Emotions are inherently complex–situated inside the brain while being influenced by
conditions inside the body and outside in the world–resulting in substantial variation in …

The extent to which neural representations of fear experience depend on or generalize
across the situational context has remained unclear. We systematically manipulated …

The ability to make nuanced inferences about other people's emotional states is central to
social functioning. While emotion inferences can be sensitive to both facial movements and …

We investigated large language models'(LLMs) efficacy in classifying complex psychological
constructs like intellectual humility, perspective-taking, open-mindedness, and search for a …