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Amygdala and fusiform gyrus temporal dynamics: responses to negative facial expressionsJennifer C Britton
Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and Martinos Biomedical Imaging Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Neurosci 9:44. 2008..Percent signal changes within anatomic regions-of-interest (amygdala and fusiform gyrus) were calculated to examine the temporal dynamics of neural response and any response differences based on face type...- The experience of emotionLisa Feldman Barrett
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 58:373-403. 2007..We then discuss the role of such experiences in the economy of the mind and behavior... - The amygdala and the experience of affectLisa Feldman Barrett
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Massachusetts General Hospital, MA 02167, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2:73-83. 2007..The results are consistent with the interpretation that the amygdala contributes to negative affective experience by increasing perceptual sensitivity for negative stimuli... 
Solving the emotion paradox: categorization and the experience of emotionLisa Feldman Barrett
Department of Psychology, Boston College, MA 02467, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 10:20-46. 2006..The result is a model of emotion experience that has much in common with the social psychological literature on person perception and with literature on embodied conceptual knowledge as it has recently been applied to social psychology...- Interoceptive sensitivity and self-reports of emotional experienceLisa Feldman Barrett
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:684-97. 2004..This relationship was not accounted for by several other variables, including simple language effects. Implications for the role of interoception in experienced emotion and the validity of self-reported emotion are discussed... - See it with feeling: affective predictions during object perceptionL F Barrett
Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1325-34. 2009..Instead, affective responses support vision from the very moment that visual stimulation begins... 
She's emotional. He's having a bad day: attributional explanations for emotion stereotypesLisa Feldman Barrett
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Emotion 9:649-58. 2009..e., a situational attribution for the emotional behavior). These findings help explain the pervasive belief that women are more emotional when compared with men, even when the scientific veracity of this belief is questionable...- Feelings or words? Understanding the content in self-report ratings of experienced emotionLisa Feldman Barrett
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:266-81. 2004..Implications for the study of experienced emotion are discussed... - Context is routinely encoded during emotion perceptionLisa Feldman Barrett
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Psychol Sci 21:595-9. 2010..Our findings are consistent with an emerging literature showing that facial muscle actions (i.e., structural features of the face), when viewed in isolation, might be insufficient for perceiving emotion... - Individual differences in working memory capacity and dual-process theories of the mindLisa Feldman Barrett
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Psychol Bull 130:553-73. 2004..In addition, the authors propose several new areas of investigation that derive directly from applying the concept of WMC to dual-process theories of the mind... - Language as context for the perception of emotionLisa Feldman Barrett
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 11:327-32. 2007.... - Constructing emotion: the experience of fear as a conceptual actKristen A Lindquist
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Psychol Sci 19:898-903. 2008..This study provides the first experimental support for the hypothesis that people experience world-focused emotion when they conceptualize their core affective state using accessible knowledge about emotion... - Individual differences in learning the affective value of others under minimal conditionsEliza Bliss-Moreau
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Emotion 8:479-93. 2008..Finally, Study 4 demonstrated that initial learning persisted over a period of 2 days. Implications for affective processing and person perception are discussed... - Reading chimpanzee faces: evidence for the role of verbal labels in categorical perception of emotionJennifer M B Fugate
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Emotion 10:544-54. 2010..Overall, the results suggest that the structural information in the face alone is often insufficient for CP; CP is facilitated by verbal labeling... - Remembering everyday experience through the prism of self-esteemTamlin Conner Christensen
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:51-62. 2003..These findings strengthen the view that self-esteem is a rich source of knowledge about the self that can influence memory for some kinds of autobiographical experience... - Language and the perception of emotionKristen A Lindquist
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Emotion 6:125-38. 2006..In Study 3, participants were less accurate to categorize facial behaviors depicting emotion after an emotion word was satiated. The implications of these findings for a linguistically relative view of emotion perception are discussed... - On the broad applicability of the affective circumplex: representations of affective knowledge among schizophrenia patientsAnn M Kring
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA
Psychol Sci 14:207-14. 2003.... - Neural correlates of novelty and face-age effects in young and elderly adultsChristopher I Wright
Laboratory of Aging and Emotion, Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 13th Street, Building 149, CNY 2, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Neuroimage 42:956-68. 2008..e., an age in-group effect). Differences in anatomic localization and behavioral results suggest that novelty and age in-group effects were differentially processed in the amygdala... - Functional grouping and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studiesHedy Kober
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
Neuroimage 42:998-1031. 2008.... - Neuroanatomical correlates of extraversion and neuroticismChristopher I Wright
Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Cereb Cortex 16:1809-19. 2006..In contrast, no such correlations were observed for the volume of the amygdala. The results suggest that specific aspects of regional prefrontal anatomy are associated with specific personality traits... - The role of the amygdala in visual awarenessSeth Duncan
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 11:190-2. 2007..The psychological consequence is that a person's momentary affective state might help to select the contents of conscious experience... - The interpersonal process model of intimacy in marriage: a daily-diary and multilevel modeling approachJean Philippe Laurenceau
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 2070, USA
J Fam Psychol 19:314-23. 2005..Implications for the importance of perceived partner responsiveness in the intimacy process for married partners are discussed... - Psychological resilience and positive emotional granularity: examining the benefits of positive emotions on coping and healthMichele M Tugade
Department of Psychology, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, USA
J Pers 72:1161-90. 2004..Implications for research on coping and health are discussed... - Implicit self-attitudes predict spontaneous affect in daily lifeTamlin Conner
University of Connecticut Health Center, Department of Psychiatry, Farmington, CT 06030 6325, USA
Emotion 5:476-88. 2005..Findings extend understanding of the factors that contribute to experienced affect and are the first to empirically link implicit self-attitudes with phenomenological affective experience in real-life settings over time... - Valence focus and the perception of facial affectLisa Feldman Barrett
National Center for Scientific Research, University of Clermont Ferrand, France
Emotion 4:266-74. 2004..The effect was not accounted for by current affective state or other personality characteristics. Implications for the validity of self-reported experienced emotion are discussed... - Emotional reactivity and the overreport of somatic symptoms: somatic sensitivity or negative reporting style?Keith R Aronson
Social Science Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 103 Health and Human Development East, University Park, PA 16802, USA
J Psychosom Res 60:521-30. 2006..We assess the degree to which these two competing theories about the role of ER are accurate within the signal detection framework... - Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory and depression: the role of executive controlTim Dalgleish
Emotion Research Group, Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, England
J Exp Psychol Gen 136:23-42. 2007..The potential role of executive control in accounting for other aspects of the AMT literature is discussed...
Research Grants
- Emotional Granularity: A View From Multiple LevelsLisa Barrett; Fiscal Year: 2006..Emotional experiences will come to be viewed as fluid, emergent phenomena that are constructed and elaborated via mental representations. In the broadest context, it has the potential to impact research where emotion plays some role. ..
- Neural Mechanisms of Social Decision Making in AgingLisa Barrett; Fiscal Year: 2007..The results of these studies will elucidate the neural bases of healthy Socioemotional decision-making and well-being in aging. ..
- Neural Mechanisms of Social Decision Making in AgingLisa Feldman Barrett; Fiscal Year: 2010..The results of these studies will elucidate the neural bases of healthy Socioemotional decision-making and well-being in aging. ..