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Reconstructing the Past: A Century of Ideas About Emotion in Psychology
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Within the discipline of psychology, the conventional history outlines the development of two fundamental approaches to the scientific study of emotion—“basic emotion” and “appraisal” traditions. In this article, we outline the development of a third approach to emotion that exists in the psychological literature—the “psychological constructionist” tradition. In the process, we discuss a number of works that have virtually disappeared from the citation trail in psychological discussions of emotion. We also correct some misconceptions about early sources, such as work by Darwin and James. Taken together, these three contributions make for a fuller and more accurate account of ideas about emotion during the century stretching from 1855 to just before 1960.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gendron, M., & Feldman Barrett, L.
- Affiliations
- Boston College (US)
- Boston College, USA and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA
- Corresponding author
- Gendron, Maria
- ORCID
- Gendron, Maria
- Venue
- Emotion Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2009-09-16
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 316-339
- ISSN
- 1754-0739 (ISSN-L)
- 1754-0747
- PMC
- PMC2835158
- OpenAlex
- W2045705118
- Cited by
- 361
- References
- 187
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 50 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 34.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Emotion Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (DP1OD003312)
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG030311)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Emotions Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Keywords
- history of emotion research, basic emotion theory, appraisal theory, Charles Darwin, William James
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