#834 Kristen Lindquist: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Emotions
Dr. Kristen Lindquist is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research seeks to understand the psychological and neural basis of emotions, moods, and feelings. Her ongoing work uses tools from social cognition, physiology, neuroscience, and big data methods to examine how emotions emerge from the confluence of the body, brain, and culture.
In this episode, we start by talking about a multidisciplinary approach to emotions. We discuss if infants really perceive and understand facial configurations as instances of discrete emotion categories, and why there is so much focus on the face. We talk about the cross-cultural study of emotions. We discuss how children acquire emotion concepts. We talk about emotional aging, and an embodied cognitive approach to emotion. We discuss gender variation in the experience of emotion. We talk about moral foundations theory, and an alternative constructionist perspective on the link between morality and emotion. We discuss if some people are more emotionally complex than others. We discuss if people universally essentialize emotions, and research on basic emotions. We talk about a network approach to the brain. Finally, we discuss gender gaps in representation and career advancement in the sciences, and what explains them.
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Intro
A multidisciplinary perspective of emotions
Do infants perceive and understand facial configurations as instances of discrete emotion categories?
The cross-cultural study of emotions
Why is there so much focus on the face?
How children acquire emotion concepts
Affect
Emotional aging. Does affective experience and perception change across the lifespan?
Embodied cognition and emotion
Gender variation in the experience of emotion
A constructionist perspective on the link between morality and emotion
Are some people more emotionally complex than others?
Do people universally essentialize emotions?
Research on basic emotions
A network approach to the brain
Gender gaps in representation and career advancement in the sciences
Follow Dr. Lindquist’s work!
Follow Dr. Lindquist’s work:
Website: http://bit.ly/3ZIUfKc
Carolina Affective Science Lab: http://bit.ly/3ZAMKUN
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/3wam4gL