Table of Contents

I EMOTION ELICITATION ; 1. Emotion Elicitation Using Films ; 2. The International Affective Picture System (IAPS) in the Study of Emotion and Attention ; 3. The Directed Facial Action Task: Emotional Responses without Appraisal ; 4. Emotional Behaviors As Emotional Stimuli ; 5. Probing Unconscious Emotional Processes: On Becoming a Successful Masketeer ; 6. Social Psychological Methods of Emotion Elicitation ; 7. Emotion Elicitation Using Dyadic Interaction Tasks ; 8. Combining Music with Thought to Change Mood ; 9. Emotion Elicited by Primary Reinforcers, and Following Stimulus-Reinforcement Association Learning ; 10. Emotion Elicitation with Neurological Patients ; II EMOTION ASSESSMENT ; 11. Assessing Positive and Negative via Self-Report ; 12. The Information-Processing Approach to Emotion Research ; 13. Observer-Based Measurement of Facial Expression with the Facial Action Coding System ; 14. Use of Automated Facial Image Analysis for Measurement of Emotion Expression ; 15. Measuring Emotion-Related Vocal Acoustics ; 16. The Specific Affect Coding System (SPAFF) ; 17. Continuous Measurement of Emotion: The Affect Rating Dial ; 18. Assessing Understanding and Appraisals During Emotional Experience in Everyday Life Situations ; 19. The Time Sampling Diary (TSD) of Emotional Experience in Everyday Life Situations ; 20. Methodological Considerations in the Study of Emotion Across Cultures ; 21. Considerations in Studying Emotion in Infants and Children ; 22. Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Issues in Inferring Subjective Emotion Experience: Recommendations for Researchers ; III METHODS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE BIOLOGICAL BASES OF EMOTION ; 23. Studying Emotion in Animals: Methods, Materials, and Training ; 24. The Psychophysiological Laboratory ; 25. Investigating Human Emotion With Lesions and Intracranial Recording ; 26. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Study of Emotion

About the Author

James A. Coan is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. His research focuses on the neural systems supporting emotional communication and regulation, with an emphasis on the roles these systems play in psychopathology and interpersonal relationships. John J. B. Allen is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. His research interests include the etiology and treatment of mood disorders.

Reviews

"Methods and measures move science. Coan and Allen's wonderful book should therefore accelerate the already fast-moving field of affective science. The methods include film, photos, faces, music, conversations, and dyadic tasks. The measures use voices, expressions, brain scans, psychophysiology, diaries, narratives, self-reports, and more--expertly done." --Gerald L. Clore, Commonwealth Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia "Drs. Coan and Allen have assembled an impressive list of contributors from the field of emotions research. The breadth of the contributions makes this volume a must for any serious emotions scholar. To combine in one book both the methods of elicitation and the methods of assessment surely makes this a unique reference for students and researchers. From the clear, authoritative chapters on such topics as the use of films and pictures to elicit emotion to the chapters on cross-cultural assessment and the psychophysiology lab, this book provides the big picture as well as the nuts and bolts necessary to conduct research on emotions in the era of neuroscience." --Julian F. Thayer, Ohio Eminent Scholar Professor in Health Psychology, Ohio State University "The scientific investigation of emotion requires that emotions be controlled experimentally and measured comparably across time, contexts, and laboratories. These dual requirements have proven difficult to fulfill despite concerted efforts for decades to do so. Progress has been slowed by the absence of a thorough treatment of available methods and measures. By directly addressing these dual problems in a comprehensive volume, the Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment is destined to become a landmark contribution to the scientific study of emotion." --John T. Cacioppo, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago "Methods and measures move science. Coan and Allen's wonderful book should therefore accelerate the already fast-moving field of affective science. The methods include film, photos, faces, music, conversations, and dyadic tasks. The measures use voices, expressions, brain scans, psychophysiology, diaries, narratives, self-reports, and more--expertly done." --Gerald L. Clore, Commonwealth Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia "Drs. Coan and Allen have assembled an impressive list of contributors from the field of emotions research. The breadth of the contributions makes this volume a must for any serious emotions scholar. To combine in one book both the methods of elicitation and the methods of assessment surely makes this a unique reference for students and researchers. From the clear, authoritative chapters on such topics as the use of films and pictures to elicit emotion to the chapters on cross-cultural assessment and the psychophysiology lab, this book provides the big picture as well as the nuts and bolts necessary to conduct research on emotions in the era of neuroscience." --Julian F. Thayer, Ohio Eminent Scholar Professor in Health Psychology, Ohio State University "The scientific investigation of emotion requires that emotions be controlled experimentally and measured comparably across time, contexts, and laboratories. These dual requirements have proven difficult to fulfill despite concerted efforts for decades to do so. Progress has been slowed by the absence of a thorough treatment of available methods and measures. By directly addressing these dual problems in a comprehensive volume, the Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment is destined to become a landmark contribution to the scientific study of emotion." --John T. Cacioppo, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago