Reconstructing the Past: A Century of Ideas About Emotion in Psychology

Overview

Journal Emot Rev

Date 2010 Mar 12

PMID 20221412

Citations 53

Authors

Maria Gendron

Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Abstract

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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