Emotions in “Black and White” or Shades of Gray? How We Think About Emotion Shapes Our Perception and Neural Representation of Emotion

Psychological Science

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1428-1442

  Satpute, Ajay B ^a   Nook, Erik C ^b   Narayanan, Sandhya ^c   Shu, Jocelyn ^c   Weber, Jochen ^c   Ochsner, Kevin N ^c  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

affect; categorization; emotions; neuroimaging; social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMETRY; THINKING;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR OBSERVATION TECHNIQUES; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROIMAGING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; THINKING;

EID: 84994202006     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797616661555     Document Type: Article

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