Articles that take a classical view 2009-2014

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Introduction endnote 3, from How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
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The classical view is found in virtually every introductory college textbook on psychology, and in most magazine and newspaper articles that discuss emotion.

My lab searched for articles on the brain basis of emotion published between 2009 and 2014 in widely read newspapers and magazines. Newspapers included the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. Magazines included Pacific Standard, The Atlantic, and Newsweek. We located 74 articles, of which 83% took a classical view. Nine percent of the articles were unclear in their theoretical assumptions.

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To locate these articles, we searched using the following keywords: emotion, anger, fear, sadness, jealousy, happiness, disgust, amygdala, hippocampus, nucleus accumbens, insula, prefrontal cortex, ventral striatum.