References that call basic emotion hypotheses into doubt

This page accompanies this Twitter thread that references this video. The listed papers include summaries & reference lists for the interested reader.

Reviews with references

Westlin, C., Theriault, J. E., Katsumi, Y., Nieto-Castanon, A., Kucyi, A., Ruf, S. F., Brown, S., Pavel, M., Erdogmus, D., Brooks, D. H., Quigley, K. S., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., & Barrett, L. F.  (2023). Improving the study of brain-behavioral relationships by revisiting basic assumptions. Trends in Cognitive Science, 27, 246-257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.12.015

Barrett, L. F. (2022).  Context reconsidered: Complex signal ensembles, relational meaning and population thinking.  American Psychologist, 77, 894-920. (Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in Psychology, American Psychological Association). https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001054

Barrett, L. F., Adolphs, R., Marsella, S., Martinez, A., & Pollak, S. (2019). Emotional expressions reconsidered: Challenges to inferring emotion in human facial movements. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 20, 1-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100619832930

Barrett, L. F., & Satpute, A. B. (2019). Historical pitfalls and new directions in the neuroscience of emotion. Neuroscience Letters, Feb 6; 693:9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2017.07.045.

Barrett, L. F. (2018). Seeing fear: It’s all in the eyes? Trends in Neurosciences, 41, 559-563.

Gendron, M., Crivelli, C., & Barrett, L. F. (2018). Universality reconsidered: Diversity in meaning making of facial expressions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27, 211-219.

Siegel, E. H., Sands, M. K., Van den Noortgate, W., Condon, P., Chang, Y., Dy, J., Quigley, K. S., & Barrett, L. F. (2018). Emotion fingerprints or emotion populations? A meta-analytic investigation of autonomic features of emotion categories. Psychological Bulletin, 144(4), 343-393.

Barrett, L. F. (2017). The theory of constructed emotion: An active inference account of interoception and categorization. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1833. -- Table 1 https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx060

Guillory, S.A., Bujarski, K.A. (2014). Exploring emotions using invasive methods: review of 60 years of human intracranial electrophysiology. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(12), 1880–9.

Barrett, L. F. (2012). Emotions are real. Emotion, 12, 413-429. -- Table 1

A few individual studies of interest

Le Mau, T., Hoemann, K., Lyons, S.H., Fugate, J. M. B., Brown, E. N., Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2021). Professional actors demonstrate variability, not stereotypical expressions, when portraying emotional states in photographs. Nature Communications, 12, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25352-6

Gendron, M., Hoemann, K., Crittenden, A. N., Mangola, S. M., Ruark, G., & Barrett, L.F. (2020). Emotion perception in Hadza hunter-gatherers. Scientific Reports, 10 3867. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60257-2.

Hoemann, K., Kahn, Z., Feldman, M., Nielson, C., Devlin, M., Dy, J., Barrett, L. F.,Wormwood, J. B., & Quigley, K. S. (2020). Context-aware experience sampling reveals the scale of variation in affective experience. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69180-y