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Herbert L. Meiselman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Emotion measurement: Theoretically pure or practical?
    Food Quality and Preference, 2017
    Co-Authors: Herbert L. Meiselman
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    Prescott presents a personal perspective on where we are in Emotion measurement. He reviews recent applied work including several major issues: the definition of Emotion, the balance of positive or negative Emotions, including large or small numbers of Emotion, and using Emotion questionnaires or alternatives to questionnaires. He warns readers to avoid specific Emotions (happy, sad etc) and instead to focus on Emotion dimensions (valence, arousal), even though these dimensions are not agreed upon within the Emotion Research community. In fact, the main question is how can one base applied Emotion measurement on basic affective science, when Emotion Researchers do not agree on most issues and on most methods.

  • A review of the current state of Emotion Research in product development
    Food Research International, 2015
    Co-Authors: Herbert L. Meiselman
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    Abstract The field of Emotion Research related to product development is reviewed, focusing on the issues and challenges of recent years. While the traditional field of Emotion in psychology and related fields is quite old, the application to products is more recent, and presents the following list of current issues which are reviewed: (1) Defining Emotion, (2) Positive and negative Emotions, (3) Large or small numbers of Emotions, (4) Method: questionnaire or facial or physiological or behavioral, (5) Method: social media studies, (6) When to test Emotions: before, during or after a product, (7) Health and Wellness, and (8) Cross cultural and global perspective: does everyone globally have the same feelings and express them the same way?

Anna Wierzbicka - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • On Emotions and on Definitions: A Response to Izard
    Emotion Review, 2010
    Co-Authors: Anna Wierzbicka
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    This commentary argues that the question of metalanguage is a key issue in Emotion Research. Izard (2010) ignores this issue (and all the earlier literature relating to it, including the debate in Emotion Review, 2009, 1[1]), and thus falls into the old traps of circularity, obscurity, and ethnocentrism. This commentary rejects Izard’s claim that “Emotion” defies definition, and it offers a viable definition of “Emotion” formulated in simple and universal human concepts, using the English version of the universal conceptual lingua franca called Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM). Once again, this commentary draws attention to the centrality of the question of language in Emotion Research.

  • The 'History of Emotions' and the Future of Emotion Research
    Emotion Review, 2010
    Co-Authors: Anna Wierzbicka
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    This article focuses on the emergence of a new subfield of Emotion Research known as “history of Emotions.” People’s Emotional lives depend on the construals which they impose on events, situations, and human actions. Different cultures and different languages suggest different habitual construals, and since habitual construals change over time, as a result, habitual feelings change, too. But to study construals we need a suitable methodology. The article assumes that such a methodology is provided by the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) and it applies the NSM approach to the history of “happiness,” an Emotion which is very much at the forefront of current debates across a range of disciplines. The article shows how the “history of Emotions” can be combined with cultural semantics and why this combination opens new perspectives before the whole interdisciplinary field of Emotion Research.

  • Language and Metalanguage: Key Issues in Emotion Research:
    Emotion Review, 2009
    Co-Authors: Anna Wierzbicka
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    Building on the author's earlier work, this paper argues that language is a key issue in understanding human Emotions and that treating English Emotion terms as valid analytical tools continues to be a roadblock in the study of Emotions. Further, it shows how the methodology developed by the author and colleagues, known as NSM (from Natural Semantic Metalanguage), allows us to break free of the “shackles” (Barrett, 2006) of English psychological terms and explore human Emotions from a culture-independent perspective. The use of NSM makes it possible to study human Emotions from a genuinely cross-linguistic and cross-cultural, as well as a psychological, perspective and thus “opens up new possibilities for the scientific understanding of subjectivity and psychological experience” (Goddard, 2007).

  • Language: A key issue in Emotion Research
    Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 1997
    Co-Authors: Jean Harkins, Anna Wierzbicka
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    Abstract Linguistic evidence shows significant differences in the use of supposedly equivalent words for Emotions in different languages and cultural settings, even in the case of Emotions thought to be as basic or widespread as ‘anger’. This paper argues that such differences in usage often reflect differences in semantic content, and shows how the NSM (Natural Semantic Metalanguage) approach can provide a way of making explicit both the similarities and the differences in meanings of related Emotion words. Stating the semantic components of a word's meaning in this way also facilitates understanding of these Emotion words in their cultural and social context, in relation to cultural values, norms of behaviour, and cultural identity.

Jean-julien Aucouturier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Henna-riikka Peltola - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Lindsay A. Warrenburg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Choosing the Right Tune: A Review of Music Stimuli Used in Emotion Research
    Music Perception, 2020
    Co-Authors: Lindsay A. Warrenburg
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    When designing a new study regarding how music can portray and elicit Emotion, one of the most crucial design decisions involves choosing the best stimuli. Every Researcher must find musical samples that are able to capture an Emotional state, are appropriate lengths, and have minimal potential for biasing participants. Researchers have often utilized musical excerpts that have previously been used by other scholars, but the appropriate musical choices depend on the specific goals of the study in question and will likely change among various Research designs. The intention of this paper is to examine how musical stimuli have been selected in a sample of 306 Research articles dating from 1928 through 2018. Analyses are presented regarding the designated Emotions, how the stimuli were selected, the durations of the stimuli, whether the stimuli are excerpts from a longer work, and whether the passages have been used in studies about perceived or induced Emotion. The results suggest that the literature relies on nine Emotional terms, focuses more on perceived Emotion than on induced Emotion, and contains mostly short musical stimuli. I suggest that some of the inconclusive results from previous reviews may be due to the inconsistent use of Emotion terms throughout the music community.