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Psy 401 Junior Seminar

Research Proposal Paper Topics

SUGGESTED TOPIC AREAS

If you have another topic area to suggest, please let me know as soon as possible. In general, I’d prefer areas we’re not covering in class, though our coverage of depression and grief will be so superficial that I’ve listed these below.

Anger

Embarrassment

Fear

Guilt

Joy/happiness

Pride

Behavioral manifestations

Aggression

Laughter

Crying

Vocal affect

Are these affects?

Regret

Surprise

Complex affective states

Anxiety

Depression

Grief

Topics we didn’t cover in class:

Affects and attention

Affects and decision-making

Affects and music

STARTER REFERENCES

Notes: I have not put the library copy of Panksepp, Affective Neuroscience, or of Lane & Nadel, Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion on library reserve. Please let me know if access to these books is a problem. I have personal copies of each from which chapters can be duplicated.

I have put a * by articles or references I’d highly recommend.

Anger

Averill, J.R. (1983). Studies on anger and aggression: implications for theories of emotion, American Psychologist, 38, 1145-1180.

*Berkowitz, L. & Harmon-Jones, E. (2004). Toward an understanding of the determinants of anger, Emotion, 4(2), 107-130. Plus commentary by Buss, Smith & Kirby, and Clore & Centerbar, pp 131-144.

Lemerise, E.A. & Dodge, K.A. (2000). The development of anger and hostile interactions, Chapt 37, In Lewis, M. & Haviland-Jones, J.M. (Eds)., Handbook of Emotions, 2nd ed, Guilford Press (LR).

Panksepp, J. (1998). Affective Neuroscience, Chapt 10, Nature red in tooth and claw: the neurobiological sources of rage and anger, Oxford University Press (LR).

Russell, J.A. & Fehr, B. (1994). Fuzzy concepts in a fuzzy hierarchy: Varieties of anger, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 67, 186-205.

Embarrassment, Shame, Guilt

*Baumeister, R.F. et al. (1994). Guilt: an interpersonal approach. Psychological Bulletin, 115(2), 243-267.

Keltner, D. & Anderson, C. (2000). Saving face for Darwin: the functions and uses of embarrassment, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 9, 187-192.

Keltner, D., & Buswell, B. N. (1996). Evidence for the distinctness of embarrassment, shame, and guilt: A study of recalled antecedents and facial expressions of emotion. Cognition & Emotion, 10(2), 155-171.

*Lewis, M., (2000). Self-conscious emotions: embarrassment, pride, shame & guilt, Chapt 39, In Lewis, M. & Haviland-Jones, J.M. (Eds), Handbook of Emotions, 2nd ed, Guilford Press (LR).

*Tangney, J. P., Miller, R. S., Flicker, L., & Barlow, D. H. (1996). Are shame, guilt, and embarrassment distinct emotions? Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 70(6), 1256-1269.

Tangney, J.P. et al. (1996). Relation of shame and guilt to constructive versus destructive responses to anger across the lifespan, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 70, 797-809.

Fear & Anxiety

*Barlow, D.H. (2000). Unraveling the mysteries of anxiety and its disorders from the perspective of emotion theory, American Psychologist, 55, 1247-1263.

Bouton, M.E. et al. (2001). A modern learning theory perspective on the etiology of panic disorder, Psychological Review, 108, 4-32.

Dolan, R.J. & Morris, J.S.. (2000). The functional anatomy of innate and acquired fear, In In Lane, R.D. & Nadel, R. (Eds.), Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion, Oxford University Press.

*Ohman, A. & Mineka, S. (2001). Fears, phobias and preparedness: Toward an evolved module of fear and fear learning, Psychological Review, 108, 483-522.

Ohman, A. (2000). Fear and anxiety: Evolutionary, cognitive and clinical perspectives, Chapt 36 In Lewis, M. & Haviland-Jones, J.M. (Eds)., Handbook of Emotions, 2nd ed, Guilford Press (LR).

Panksepp, J. (1998). Affective Neuroscience, Chapt 11, The sources of fear and anxiety in the brain, Oxford University Press.

Reiman, E.M. et al. (2000). Positron emission tomography in the study of emotion, anxiety and anxiety disorders, In In Lane, R.D. & Nadel, R. (Eds.), Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion, Oxford University Press.

White, T.L. & Depue, R.A. (1999). Differential assocition of traits of fear and anxiety with norepinephrine- and dark-induced pupil reactivity, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 77(4), 863-877.

Joy/happiness

*Averill, J. R. & Moore, T.A. (2000). Happiness. Chapt 42, In Lewis, M. & Haviland-Jones, J.M. (Eds), Handbook of Emotions, 2nd ed, Guilford Press (LR).

Berns, G.S. (2004). Something funny happened to reward, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(5), 193-194.

Berridge, K.C. (2003). Pleasures of the brain. Brain & Cognition, 52(10), 106-128.

Cognition & Emotion (2003). Special issue: Pleasure. 17(2). J.A. Russell (Ed.)

Carver, C.S. Pleasure as a sign you can attend to something else: placing positive feelings within a general model of affect.

Dube, L. & DuBel, J.L.,The content and structure of laypeople’s concept of pleasure.

Keltner, D. & Haidt, J. Approaching awe: a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion

*Lyubomirsky, S. (2001). Why are some people happier than others? The role of cognitive and motivational processes in well-being, American Psychologist, 56, 239-249.

Panksepp, J. (1998). Affective Neuroscience, Chapt 15, Rough-and-tumble play: The brain sources of joy, Oxford University Press.

Waterman, A.S. (1993). Two conceptions of happiness: contrasts of personal expressiveness (eudemonia) and hedonic enjoyment, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 64(4), 678-691.

Pride

*Lewis, M., (2000). Self-conscious emotions: embarrassment, pride, shame & guilt, Chapt 39, In Lewis, M. & Haviland-Jones, J.M. (Eds), Handbook of Emotions, 2nd ed, Guilford Press (LR).

Stipek, D. (1998). Differences between Americans and Chinese in the circumstances evoking pride, shame, and guilt. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 29(5), 616-629.

Sadness/grief

*Barr-Zisowitz, C. (2000). “Sadness” – Is there such a thing, Chapt 38 In Lewis, M. & Haviland-Jones, J.M. (Eds), Handbook of Emotions, 2nd ed, Guilford Press (LR).

Bonanno, G. A., & Keltner, D. (1997). Facial expressions of emotion and the course of conjugal bereavement. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106(1), 126-137.

*Bonanno, G. A., & Kaltman, S. (1999). Toward an integrative perspective on bereavement. Psychological Bulletin, 125(6), 760-776.

Panksepp, J. (1998). Affective Neuroscience, Chapt 14, Loneliness and the social bond: the brain sources of sorrow and grief, Oxford University Press.

Stroebe, M. et al. (2002). Does disclosure of emotions facilitate recovery from bereavement? Evidence from two prospective studies. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 70(1), 169-178.

Stroebe, M. et al. (2001). Gender differences in adjustment to bereavement: an empirical and theoretical review, Review of General Psychology, 5(1), 62-83.

Depression

Alloy, L.B. et al. (1999). Do negative cognitive styles confer vulnerability to depression? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8(4), 128-132.

Davidson, R.J. (2000). Affective style, psychopathology, and resilience: Brain mechanisms and plasticity, American Psychologist, 11, 1196-1214.

Joiner, T.E. (1994). Contagious depression: existence, specificity to depressed symptoms, and the role of reassurance seeking, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 67(2), 287-296.

Kring, A.M. & Bachorowski, J.-A. (1999). Emotions and psychopathology, In Gross, J.J. & Keltner, D., Functional Accounts of Emotion, Psychology Press (3 copies in library).

Mineka, S. et al. (2003). Cognitive biases in emotional disorders, Chapt 52 in Davidson, R.J., Scherer, K. & Goldsmith, H. Handbook of Affective Sciences, Oxford University Press (LR).

Regret

Connolly, T. & Zeelenberg, M. (2002). Regret in decision making, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 212-216.

Coricelli, G. et al. (2005). Regret and its avoidance: a neuroimaging study of choice behavior, Nature Neuroscience, 8(9), 1255.

Gilbert, D.T. et al. (2004). Looking forward to looking backward: the misprediction of regret, Psychological Science, 15(5), 346-350.

*Gilovich, T. & Medvec, V.H. (1995). The experience of regret: what, when, and why. Psychological Review, 102, 379-395.

Gilovich, T. et al. (1998). Varieties of regret: a debate and partial resolution, Psychological Review, 105(3), 602-605.

Surprise

Reisenzein, R. (2000). Exploring the strength of association between the components of emotion syndromes: the case of surprise, Cognition & Emotion, 14(1), 1-38.

Schutzwohl, A. (1998). Surprise and schema strength. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 24(5), 1182-1199.

Schutzwohl, A. && Borgstedt, K. (2005). The processing of affectively valenced stimuli: the role of surprise, Cognition & Emotion, 19(4), 583-600.

Aggression

Berkowitz, L. (2003). Affect, aggression, and antisocial behavior. Chapt 42 In Davidson, R.J., Scherer, K. & Goldsmith, H. Handbook of Affective Sciences, Oxford University Press (LR).

Bushman, B.J. et al. (2001). Do people aggress to improve their mood? Catharsis beliefs, affect regulation, and aggressive responding. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 81(1), 17-32.

Davidson, R.J. et al. (2000). Dysfunction in the neural circuitry of emotion regulation – a possible prelude to violence, Science, 289, 591-594.

Crying

Lutz, T. (1999). Crying: the natural and cultural history of tears, N.Y., W.W. Norton. (I have a copy)

Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M. et al. (2000). Adult crying: a model and review of the literature, Review of General Psychology, 4(4), 354-377.

Laughter

Bachorowski, J.-A. & Owren, M.J. (2001). Not all laughs are alike: voiced but not unvoiced laughter elicits positive affect in listeners, Psychological Science, 12, 252-257.

*Owren, M. & Bachorowski, J.-A. (2003). Reconsidering the evolution of nonlinguistic communication: the case of laughter, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 27(3), 183-200.

Provine, R.R. (1996). Laughter. American Scientist, 84, 38-45.

*Comparative vocalizations (“laughter and crying”): the Panksepp/Blumberg debate, listed in chronological order:

Knutson, B., Burgdorf, J. & Panksepp, J (1998).. Anticipation of play elicits high-frequency ultrasonic vocalizations in young rats, Journal of Comparative Psychology, 112(1), 65-73.

Panksepp, J. (2000). The riddle of laughter: neural and psychoevolutionary underpinnings of joy, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 9, 183-186.

Blumberg, M.S. & Sokoloff, G. (2001). Do infant rats cry? Psychological Review, 108, 83-95.

Knutson, B., Burgdorf, J. & Panksepp, J. (2002). Ultrasonic vocalizations as indices of affective states in rats, Psychological Bulletin, 128(6), 961-977.

Panksepp, J. (2003). Can anthropomorphic analyses of separation cries in other animals inform us about the emotional nature of social loss in humans? Psychological Review, 110(2), 376-388.

Blumberg, M.S. & Sokoloff. G. (2003). Hard heads and open minds: a reply to Panksepp (2003). Psychological Review, 110(2), 389-394.

Vocal affect

*De Gelder, B. (2000). Recognizing emotions by ear and by eye, In In Lane, R.D. & Nadel, R. (Eds.), Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion, Oxford University Press. (Note: De Gelder has a number of articles on cross-modal integration of vocal and facial cues.)

Dolan, R.J. (2001). Crossmodal binding of fear in voice and face, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(1), 10006-10010.

*Grandjean, D. et al. (2005). The voices of wrath: brain responses to angry prosody in meaningless speech, Nature Neuroscience, 8(2), 145-146.

Hietanen, J.K., Surakka, V. & Linnankoski, I. (1998). Facial electromyographic responses to vocal affect expressions, Psychophysiology, 35, 530-536.

Laukka, P. et al. (2005). A dimensional approach to vocal expression of emotion, Cognition & Emotion, 19(5), 633-653.

Scherer, K.R. et al. (2003). Vocal expression of emotion, Chapt 23 in Davidson, R.J., Scherer, K. & Goldsmith, H. Handbook of Affective Sciences, Oxford University Press (LR).

Schirmer, A. & Kotz, S.A. (2006). Beyond the right hemisphere: brain mechanisms mediating vocal emotional processing, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(1),

Attention

*Compton, R.J. (2003). The interface between emotion and attention: A review of evidence from psychology and neuroscience, Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 2, 115-129. (get a copy from me)

Derryberry, D. & Tucker, D.M. (1994). Motivating the focus of attention, In, Niedenthal, P.M. & Kitayama, S. (Eds). The Heart’s Eye, Academic Press, pp. 167-196. (I have)

Fox, E. et al. (2002). Attentional bias for threat: Evidence for delayed disengagement from emotional faces, Cognition & Emotion, 16, 355-379.

Hugdahl, K & Stormack, K.M. (2003). Emotional modulation of selective attention: behavioral and psychophysiological measures, Chapt 14 in Davidson, R.J., Scherer, K. & Goldsmith, H. Handbook of Affective Sciences, Oxford University Press (LR).

Ohman, A. et al. (2001). Emotion drives attention: Detecting the snake in the grass, Journal of Experiemental Psychology: General, 130: 466-478.

Phelps, E.A. et al. (2006). Emotion facilitates perception and potentiates the perceptual benefits of attention, Psychological Science, 17(4), 292-

Pratto, F. & John, O.P. (1991). Automatic vigilance: The attention-grabbing power of negative social information, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 380-391.

Raymond, J.E. et al. (2003). Selective attention determines emotional responses to novel visual stimuli, Psychological Science, 14, 537-542.

*Vuilleumier, P. (2005). How brains beware: neural mechanisms of emotional attention, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(12),

Zeelenberg, R. et al. (2006). The impact of emotion on perception: bias or enhanced processing? Psychological Science, 17(4), 287-

Decision-making

Connolly, T. & Zeelenberg, M. (2002). Regret in decision making, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 212-216.

Loewenstein, G.F. et al. (2001). Risk as feelings. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 267-286.

*Loewenstein G.F. & Lerner, J, (2003) The role of affect in decision making, Ch 31 In Davidson, R.J. et al. (Eds). Handbook of Affective Sciences. (LR)

Mellers, B.A. & McGraw, A.P. (2001). Anticipated emotions as guides to choice, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 210-214.

Yechiam, E. et al. (2005). Using cognitive models to map relations between neuropsychological disorders and human decision-making deficits, Psychological Science, 16(12), 973-978.

Music

Balkwill, L.-L. & Thompson, W.F. (1999). A cross-cultural investigation of the perception of emotion in music: Psychophysical and cultural cues, Music Perception, 17, 43-64.

Bigand, E. et al. (2005). Mulitdimensional scaling of emotional responses to music: the effect of musical expertise and of the duration of excerpts, Cognition & Emotion, 19(8), 1113-1139.

*Gabrielsson, A. & Juslin, P.N. (2003). Emotional expression in music, Chapt 26 in Davidson, R.J., Scherer, K. & Goldsmith, H. Handbook of Affective Sciences, Oxford University Press (LR).

Juslin, P.N. & Laukka, P. (2003). Communication of emotions in vocal expression and music performance: different channels, same code? Psychological Bulletin, 129(5), 770-814.

*Krumhansl, C.L. (2002). Music: A link between cognition and emotion, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 45-50.

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