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A framework for studying emotions across species.
Review in Cell, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 316 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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316 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Systematic Review: Questionnaire-Based Measurement of Emotion Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Comparative neuroanatomy of emotion expression: from flies to humans.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Exploring emotional expression in invertebrates: mechanisms, functions and phylogeny.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Decay chemicals activate a pH-sensing pathway to initiate a persistent state.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Dog brain representations of human facial expressions: Encoding happiness and differentiating specific negative expressions.iScience · 2026Article
- Economic and social modulations of innate decision-making in mice exposed to visual threats.eLife · 2026Article
- Prefrontal-raphe-habenular circuit drives fear memory recall and updating.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Cichlid fish as a model for understanding social dysfunction.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2026Review
- Tracking AC Electric Stimulation-Induced Persistent Locomotion Behavior in the NematodeBio-protocol · 2026Article
- The representational geometry of emotional states in basolateral amygdala.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- Tail-rattling in rodents: more than a threat display.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Review
- Epineuronal space: an emerging hidden hierarchy bridges neuron and mind space.Cell & bioscience · 2026Review
- Safety Signals Enable Single-Episode Active Avoidance paradigm and Expose Threat Generalization in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- How do Faces Influence Behavior? A Proposal for Distinguishing between Mechanisms that Involve Cognitive inferences, Emotional Feelings, and Unconscious Affective Reactions.Affective science · 2026Review
- Astrocyte-induced internal state transitions reshape brainwide sensory, integrative, and motor computations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Neural Bases of Affect-Based Impulsivity: A Decision Neuroscience Account.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Review
- Beliefs about animal emotions are associated with self-reported consumer behaviors related to animal use.PloS one · 2026Article
- Many labels, shared threat processes: classifying domain-labelled anxieties by mechanism rather than context.Psychoradiology · 2026Review
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Abstract
Since the 19th century, there has been disagreement over the fundamental question of whether "emotions" are cause or consequence of their associated behaviors. This question of causation is most directly addressable in genetically tractable model organisms, including invertebrates such as Drosophila. Yet there is ongoing debate about whether such species even have "emotions," as emotions are typically defined with reference to human behavior and neuroanatomy. Here, we argue that emotional behaviors are a class of behaviors that express internal emotion states. These emotion states exhibit certain general functional and adaptive properties that apply across any specific human emotions like fear or anger, as well as across phylogeny. These general properties, which can be thought of as "emotion primitives," can be modeled and studied in evolutionarily distant model organisms, allowing functional dissection of their mechanistic bases and tests of their causal relationships to behavior. More generally, our approach not only aims at better integration of such studies in model organisms with studies of emotion in humans, but also suggests a revision of how emotion should be operationalized within psychology and psychiatry.
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