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ArticleEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2024

Conceptual structure of emotions.

Alexandra E Kelly, Yoed N Kenett, John D Medaglia, Jamie J Reilly, Priya Dudhat, Evangelia G Chrysikou

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Article in Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Psychometric Properties and Gender-Based Assessment of the Florence Emotional Eating Drive (FEED) in Brazilians.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026
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6 authors.

Alexandra E KellyDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Drexel University.ORCID 0000-0002-7057-9674
Yoed N KenettFaculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.ORCID 0000-0003-3872-7689
John D MedagliaDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Drexel University.
Jamie J ReillyEleanor M. Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Temple University.ORCID 0000-0002-0891-438X
Priya DudhatDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Drexel University.
Evangelia G ChrysikouDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Drexel University.ORCID 0000-0001-9529-183X

Funding

Semantic Memory and Language Learning in Alzheimer's Disease and Semantic DementiR01DC013063 · NIDCD · TEMPLE UNIV OF THE COMMONWEALTH · PI James Joseph Reilly · 2014 to 2026
$6.8M
National Science FoundationNIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC013063
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Theories of semantic organization have historically prioritized investigation of concrete concepts pertaining to inanimate objects and natural kinds. As a result, accounts of the conceptual representation of emotions have almost exclusively focused on their juxtaposition with concrete concepts. The present study aims to fill this gap by deriving a large set of normative feature data for emotion concepts and assessing similarities and differences between the featural representation of emotion, nonemotion abstract, and concrete concepts. We hypothesized that differences between the experience of emotions (e.g., happiness and sadness) and the experience of other abstract concepts (e.g., equality and tyranny), specifically regarding the relative importance of interoceptive states, might drive distinctions in the dimensions along which emotion concepts are represented. We also predicted, based on constructionist views of emotion, that emotion concepts might demonstrate more variability in their representation than concrete and other abstract concepts. Participants listed features which we coded into discrete categories and contrasted the feature distributions across conceptual types. Analyses revealed statistically significant differences in the distribution of features among the category types by condition. We also examined variability in the features generated, finding that, contrary to expectation, emotion concepts were associated with less variability. Our results reflect subtle differences between the structure of emotion concepts and the structure of, not only concrete concepts, but also other abstract concepts. We interpret these findings in the context of our sample, which was restricted to native English speakers, and discuss the importance of validating these findings across speakers of different languages. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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Concept FormationEmotionsAdultFemaleHumansMaleSemanticsYoung Adult

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PMCPMC11833677

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