Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: The experience of emotion is a form of meaning-making: it encapsulates one’s relationship to the circumstances. Certain concerns are put in focus; one sees oneself and events from a particular perspective; events are evaluated along a set of relevant dimensions. These three processes – attention, construal, and appraisal – are key to understanding how emotional meaning is assembled in context. In this perspective, we illustrate their importance for the science of emotion and propose means of studying them through language. Our interdisciplinary approach seeks to move the field beyond the words that label emotions, to a higher-dimensional, dynamical account of emotional meaning.
Source: PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: Emotional fit within and between cultural contexts: Analyzing natural language to describe and compare the conceptual system for emotions, G434337789, Emotion language in context: A longitudinal, multi-modal investigation of meaning-making in everyday life and its association with expertise and well-being
OpenAlex ID: W4406517455