Neuropsychology: how many emotions are there?

Julien Dubois; Ralph Adolphs

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.037

Neuropsychology: how many emotions are there?

Curr Biol. 2015 Aug 3;25(15):R669-72. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.037.

Authors

Julien Dubois¹, Ralph Adolphs²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. Electronic address: jcrdubois@gmail.com.
² Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. Electronic address: radolphs@hss.caltech.edu.

PMID: 26241145
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.037

Abstract

Psychological theories disagree on how we attribute emotions to people. A new neuroimaging study shows that such attributions involve a large number of abstract features, rather than a small set of emotion categories.

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MeSH terms

Emotions*
Female
Humans
Male
Prefrontal Cortex / physiology*