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Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory

Publications.

Books

Barrett, L. F. What is an emotion? Volume under contract. New York: Guilford.

Edited Volumes

Barrett, L. F., & Salovey, P. (Eds.). (2002). The wisdom in feeling: Processes underlying emotional intelligence. New York: Guilford.
Barrett, L. F., Niedenthal, P., & Winkielman, P. (Eds.). (2005). Emotions: Conscious and Unconscious New York: Guilford.
Lewis, M., Haviland-Jones, J. M., & Barrett, L. F. (Eds.). (2008). The handbook of emotion, 3rd Edition. New York: Guilford.
Barrett, L. F., Mesquita, B., & Smith, E. (Eds.) (forthcoming). The mind in context. New York: Guilford.

Commissioned Articles

Barrett, L. F. (2008). Emotion. Entry for World Book Encyclopedia.
Barrett, L. F. (2007). The science of emotion. White paper commissioned for the National Research Council Committee on Opportunities in Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences for the U.S. Military.

Journal Publications

In Press or Forthcoming

Barrett, L. F. (forthcoming). Emotion: Structural approaches. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Mind. New York: Sage.
Fugate, J. M. B., & Barrett, L. F. (forthcoming). Emotion experience. Chapter to appear in K. Ochsner & S. Kosslyn (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.
Fugate, J. M. B., Gouzoules, H., & Barrett, L. F. (forthcoming). Separating production from perception: Perceiver-based explanations for sex differences in emotion. Behavioural and Brain Sciences.
Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (forthcoming). Emotion perception. Chapter to appear in D. Reisberg (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Robinson, M., & Barrett, L. F. (in press). Belief and feeling in self-reports of emotion: Assessing semantic infusion effects. Self and Identity.
Seo, M-G., Barrett, L. F., & Jin, S. (in press). The structure of affect: History, theory, and implications for emotion research in organizations. In Cooper, C., & Ashkanasy, N. (Eds.), Research companions to emotion in organizations Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Seo, M-G., Goldfarb, B., & Barrett, L. F. (in press). Affect and the framing effect within individuals across time: Risk taking in a dynamic investment game. Academy of Management Journal.

2009

Barrett, L. F. (2009). The future of psychology: Connecting mind to brain. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 4, 326-339.
Barrett, L.F. (2009). Understanding the mind by measuring the brain: Lessons from measuring behavior. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 314-318.
Barrett, L. F., & Bar, M. (2009). See it with feeling: Affective predictions in the human brain. Royal Society Phil Trans B, 364, 1325-1334.
Barrett, L. F., & Bliss-Moreau, E. (2009). Affect as a psychological primitive. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 167-218.
Barrett, L. F., & Bliss-Moreau, E. (2009). She's emotional. He's having a bad day: Attributional explanations for emotion stereotypes. Emotion, 9, 649-658.
Barrett, L.F., Gendron, M., Huang, Y-M. (2009). Do discrete emotions exist? Philosophical Psychology, 22, 427-437.
Bliss-Moreau, E., & Barrett, L. F. (2009). What's reason got to do with it? Affect as the foundation of learning. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 3.
Conner, T. S., Tennen, H., Fleeson, W., & Barrett, L. F. (2009). Experience sampling methods: A modern idiographic approach to personality. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3, 1-22.
Damaraju, E., Huang, Y-M., Barrett, L. F., & Pessoa, L. (2009). Affective learning enhances activity and functional connectivity in early visual cortex. Neuropsychologia, 47, 2480-2487.
Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2009). Reconstructing the past: A century of ideas about emotion in psychology. Emotion Review, 1, 1-24.
Pietromonaco, P. R., & Barrett, L. F. (2009). Valence focus and self-esteem lability: Reacting to hedonic cues in the social environment. Emotion, 9, 406-418.

2008

Barrett, L. F., & Lindquist, K. (2008). The embodiment of emotion. Chapter in G. Semin & E. Smith (Eds.). Embodied grounding: Social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscience approaches (p. 237-262). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bliss-Moreau, E., Barrett, L. F., & Wright, C. I. (2008). Individual differences in learning the affective value of others under minimal conditions. Emotion, 8, 479-93.
Britton, J. C., Shin, L. M., Barrett, L. F., Rauch, S. L., & Wright, C. I. (2008). Amygdala and fusiform gyrus temporal dynamics: Responses to negative facial expressions. BMC Neuroscience, 9, 44-49.
Kober, H., Barrett, L. F., Joseph, J., Bliss-Moreau, E., Lindquist, K. A., & Wager, T. D. (2008). Functional networks and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Neuroimage, 42, 998-1031.
Lindquist, K., & Barrett, L. F. (2008). Emotional complexity. Chapter in M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones, & L.F. Barrett (Eds.), The handbook of emotion, 3rd edition (p. 513-530). New York: Guilford.
Lindquist, K., & Barrett, L. F. (2008). Constructing emotion: The experience of fear as a conceptual act. Psychological Science, 19, 898-903.
Wager, T. D.,Barrett, L. F., Bliss-Moreau, E., Lindquist, K., Duncan, S., Kober, H., Joseph, J., Davidson, M., & Mize, J. (2008). The neuroimaging of emotion. Chapter in M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones, & L.F. Barrett (Eds.), The handbook of emotion, 3rd Edition (p. 249-271). New York: Guilford.
Wright, C. I., Negreira, A., Gold., A. L., Britton, J. C., Williams, D., & Barrett, L F. (2008). Neural correlates of novelty in young and elderly adults. Neuroimage, 42, 956-968.

2007

Barrett, L. F. (2007). The science of emotion. White paper commissioned for the National Research Council Committee on Opportunities in Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences for the U.S. Military.
Barrett, L. F., Bliss-Moreau, E., Duncan, S. L., Rauch, S.L., & Wright, C. I. (2007). The amygdala and the experience of affect. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience. 2, 73-83.
Barrett, L. F., Lindquist, K., Bliss-Moreau, E., Duncan, S., Gendron, M., Mize, J., & Brennan, L. (2007). Of mice and men: Natural kinds of emotion in the mammalian brain? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 297-312.
Barrett, L. F., Lindquist, K., & Gendron, M. (2007). Language as a context for emotion perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 11, 327-332.
Barrett, L. F., Mesquita, B., Ochsner, K. N., & Gross, J. J. (2007). The experience of emotion. Annual Review of Psychology.
Barrett, L. F., Ochsner, K. N., & Gross, J. J. (2007). On the automaticity of emotion. Chapter in J. Bargh (Ed.), Social psychology and the unconscious: The automaticity of higher mental processes. New York: Psychology Press.
Conner, T., Barrett, L. F., Tugade, M. M. & Tennen, H. Personality in context: The theory and practice of experience sampling. In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, & R. Kreuger (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology (190-192). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Duncan, S. L. & Barrett, L. F. (2007). The amygdala in visual awareness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 11, 190-192.
Duncan, S., & Barrett, L. F. (2007). Affect as a form of cognition: A neurobiological analysis. Cognition and Emotion 21, 1184-1211.
Dalgleish, T., Perkins, N., Williams, J. M. G., Golden, A-M. J., Barrett, L. F., Barnard, P. J., Au-Yeung, C., Murphy, V., Elward, R., Tchanturia, K., Spinks, H., & Watkins, E. (2007). Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory and depression: The role of executive processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 136, 23-42.
Seo, M-G., & Barrett, L. F. (2007). Being emotional during decision-making: Good or bad? An empirical investigation. Academy of Management Journal, 50, 923-40.
Tugade, M. M., Conner, T. & Barrett, L. F. (2007). Assessment of mood. Chapter to appear in S. Ayers, A. Baum, C. McManus, S. Newman, K. Wallston, J. Weinman, and R. West (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health, and Medicine (2nd Edition). Cambridge UK: Cambridge UP.
Wranik, T., Barrett, L. F., & Salovey, P. (2007). Intelligent emotion regulation. In J. J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (p. 393-428). New York: Guilford.

2006

Aronson, K. R., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. (2006). Emotional reactivity and the over-report of somatic symptoms: Somatic sensitivity or negative reporting style? Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 60, 521-530.
Barrett, L. F. (2006). Emotions as natural kinds? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1, 28-58.
Barrett, L. F. (2006). Solving the emotion paradox: Categorization and the experience of emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10, 20-46.
Barrett, L. F. (2006). Valence as a basic building block of emotional life. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 35-55.
Barrett, L. F., & Wager, T. (2006). The structure of emotion: Evidence from the neuroimaging of emotion. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 79-85.
Lindquist, K., Barrett, L. F., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Russell, J. A. (2006). Language and the perception of emotion. Emotion, 6, 125-138.
Pietromonaco, P., & Barrett, L. F. (2006). What can you do for me? Attachment style and motives for valuing partners. Journal for Research in Personality, 40, 313-338.
Pietromonaco, P. R., Barrett, L. F., & Powers, S. A. (2006). Adult attachment theory and affective reactivity and regulation. In J. Simpson, D. Snyder, & J. Hughes (Eds.), Emotion regulation in couples and families: Pathways to dysfunction and health (p. 57-74). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Wright, C.I., Williams, D., Barrett, L. F., L. F., Dickerson, B., & Wedig, M. W. (2006). Neuroanatomical correlates of Extraversion and Neuroticism. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 1809-1819.

2005

Barrett, L. F. (2005). Feeling is perceiving: Core affect and conceptualization in the experience of emotion. In L. F. Barrett, P. M. Niedenthal, & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Emotions: Conscious and Unconscious (pp. 255-284). New York: Guilford.
Barrett, L. F., Niedenthal, P. M., & Winkielman, P. (2005). Introduction to emotions and consciousness. Emotions: Conscious and Unconscious (pp. 1-18). New York: Guilford.
Conner, T., & Barrett, L. F. (2005). Implicit self-attitudes predict spontaneous affect in daily life. Emotion, 5, 476-488.
Hutcherson, C. A., Goldin, P. R., Ochsner, K., Barrett, L. F., Gabrieli, J. D., & Gross, J. J. (2005). Attention and emotion: Does rating emotion alter neural responses to amusing and sad films? Neuroimage, 27, 656-668.
Laurenceau, J-P., Barrett, L. F., & Rovine, M. J. (2005). The interpersonal process model of intimacy in marriage: A daily-diary and multilevel modeling approach. Journal of Family Psychology, 19, 314-323.

2004

Barrett, L. F. (2004). Feelings or words? Understanding the content in self-report ratings of emotional experience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 266-281.
Barrett, L. F., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2004). Valence focus and the perception of facial affect. Emotion, 4, 266-274.
Barrett, L. F., Quigley, K., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Aronson, K. R. (2004). Arousal focus and interoceptive sensitivity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 684-697.
Barrett, L. F., Tugade, M. M., & Engle, R. W. (2004). Individual differences in working memory capacity and dual-process theories of the mind. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 553-573.
Conner, T., Tugade, M. M., & Barrett, L. F. (2004). Ecological momentary assessment. In N. Anderson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of health and behavior (pp. 291 - 292). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Seo, M., Barrett, L. F., & Bartunek, J. M. (2004). The role of affective experience in work motivation. Academy of Management, 29, 423-439. Finalist 2005 AMR best paper.
Tugade, M. M., Fredrickson, B. L., Barrett, L. F. (2004). Psychological resilience and positive emotional granularity: Examining the benefits of positive emotions on coping and health. Journal of Personality, 72, 1161-1190.
Wager, T. D., & Barrett, L. F. (2004). From affect to control: Functional specialization of the insula in motivation and regulation. Published online at PsycExtra.
Pietromonaco, P. R., Greenwood, D., & Barrett, L. F. (2004). Conflict in adult close relationships: An attachment perspective. Chapter in W. S. Rholes & J. A. Simpson (Eds.), Adult attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications. New York: Guilford Press.

2003

Conner, T., Wood, J. V., & Barrett, L. F. (2003). Remembering everyday events through the prism of self-esteem. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 51-62.
Conner, T., Barrett, L. F., Bliss-Moreau, E., Lebo, K., & Kashub, C. (2003). A practical guide to experience-sampling procedures. Journal of Happiness Studies, 4, 53-78.
Kring, A. M., Barrett, L. F., L., & Gard, D. (2003). On the broad applicability of the affective circumplex: Representations of affective knowledge among schizophrenia patients. Psychological Science, 14, 207-214.

2002

Barrett, L. F., Williams, N. L., & Fong, G. T. (2002). An analysis of defensive verbal behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 776-788.
Pietromonaco, P. R., Laurenceau, J. P., & Barrett, L. F. (2002). Relational knowledge structures: The role of emotional coherence. Chapter in H. Reis, M. A. Fitzpatrick, and A. Vangelisti (Eds.), Advances in personal relationships: Stability and change in relationship behavior (pp. 5-34). Cambridge University Press.
Quigley, K. S., Barrett, L. F., & Weinstein, S. (2002). Cardiovascular patterns associated with threat and challenge appraisals: Individual responses across time. Psychophysiology, 39, 1-11.

2001

Aronson, K. R., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. S. (2001). Feeling your body or feeling badly: Evidence for the limited validity of the somatosensory amplification scale as an index of somatic sensitivity. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 51, 387-394.
Barrett, L. F., & Fossum, T. (2001). Mental representations of affect knowledge. Cognition and Emotion, 15, 333-364.
Barrett, L. F., & Barrett, D. J. (2001). Computerized experience-sampling: How technology facilitates the study of conscious experience. Social Science Computer Review, 19, 175-185. (Invited contribution).
Barrett, L. F., & Gross, J. J. (2001). Emotion representation and regulation: A process model of emotional intelligence. Chapter in T. Mayne & G. Bonnano (Eds.), Emotion: Current Issues and Future Directions (pp. 286-310). New York: Guilford.
Barrett, L. F., Gross, J., Conner, T., & Benvenuto, M. (2001). Emotion differentiation and regulation. Cognition and Emotion, 15, 713-724.
Ochsner, K., & Barrett, L. F. (2001). The neuroscience of emotion. Chapter in T. Mayne & G. Bonnano (Eds.), Emotion: Current Issues and Future Directions(pp. 38-81). New York: Guilford.

2000

Barrett, L.F. (2000, February). Modeling emotion as an emergent phenomenon: A causal indicator analysis. (PPT slides) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Nashville.
Barrett, L. F., Lane, R., Sechrest, L., & Schwartz, G. (2000). Sex differences in emotional awareness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1027-1035.
Fossum, T., & Barrett, L. F. (2000). Evaluation and description in the personality-emotion relationship. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 669-678.
Madden, T., Barrett, L. F., & Pietromonaco, P. A. (2000). Gender differences in anxiety and depression. In A. H. Fischer (Ed.), Gender and emotion: Social Psychological Perspectives (pp. 277-298). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Pietromonaco, P. R., & Barrett, L. F. (2000a). Attachment theory as an organizing framework: A view from different levels of analysis. Review of General Psychology, 4, 107-110. (Introduction to special issue).
Pietromonaco, P. R., & Barrett, L. F. (2000b). Internal working models: What do we know about knowing about the self in relation to others? Review of General Psychology, 4, 155-175.

1999

Carroll, J. M., Yik, M. S. M., Russell, J. A., & Barrett, L. F. (1999). On the psychometric principles of affect. Review of General Psychology, 3, 14-22.
Barrett, L. F., & Russell, J. A. (1999). Structure of current affect. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 10-14.
Fishtein, J., Pietromonaco, P. R., & Barrett, L. F. (1999). The contribution of attachment style and relationship conflict to the complexity of relationship knowledge. Social Cognition, 17, 228-244.
Quigley, K. S., & Barrett, L. F. (1999). Emotional learning and mechanisms of intentional psychological change. In J. Brandtstadter, & R. M. Lerner, (Eds.), Action and Self-Development: Theory and Research Through the LifeSpan (pp. 435-464). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Russell, J. A., & Barrett, L. F. (1999). Core affect, prototypical emotional episodes, and other things called emotion: Dissecting the elephant. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 805-819.
Yik, M. S. M., Russell, J. A., & Barrett, L. F. (1999). Integrating four structures of current mood into a circumplex: Integration and beyond. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 600-619.

1998

Barrett, L. F. (1998a). Discrete emotions or dimensions? The role of valence focus and arousal focus. Cognition and Emotion, 12, 579-599.
Barrett, L. F. (1998b). The future of emotion research. The Affect Scientist, 12, 6-8
Barrett, L. F., Robin, L., Pietromonaco, P. R., & Eyssell, K. M. (1998). Are women the "more emotional sex?" Evidence from emotional experiences in social context. Cognition and Emotion, 12, 555-578.
Barrett, L. F., & Russell, J. A. (1998). Independence and bipolarity in the structure of current affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 967-984.
Barrett, L. F., & Swim, J. (1998). Appraisals of prejudice: A signal detection framework. In J. Swim & C. Stangor (Eds.), Prejudice: The target's perspective (pp. 11-36). Academic Press.
Laurenceau, J. P., Barrett, L. F., & Pietromonaco, P. R. (1998). Intimacy as a process: The importance of self-disclosure and responsiveness in interpersonal exchanges. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1238-1251.

1997

Barrett, L. F. (1997). The relationship among momentary emotional experiences, personality descriptions, and retrospective ratings of emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 1100-1110.
Barrett, L. F., & Pietromonaco, P. R. (1997). Accuracy of the five factor model in predicting perceptions of daily social interactions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 1173-1187.
Pietromonaco, P. R., & Barrett, L. F. (1997). Working models of attachment and daily social interactions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 1409-1423.

1996

1995

Feldman, L. A. (1995a). Variations in the circumplex structure of emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 806-817.
Feldman, L. A. (1995b). Valence focus and arousal focus: Individual differences in the structure of affective experience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 153-166.

1993

Feldman, L. A., & Gotlib, I. H. (1993). Social dysfunction in depression. In C. G. Costello (Ed.), Symptoms of depression (pp. 85-112). New York: Wiley.

1992 and Earlier

Moretti, M. M., Feldman, L. A., & Shaw, B. (1989). Cognitive Therapy: Current practice and future directions. In V. J. Giannetti (Ed.), The handbook of brief psychotherapies (pp. 217-237). New York: Plenum Press.
Moretti, M. M., Higgins, E. T., & Feldman, L. A. (1989). The self-system in depression: Conceptualization and treatment. In C. D. McCann and N. S. Endler (Eds.), Depression: New directions in research, theory, and practice (pp. 127-156). Toronto: Wall and Thompson.