Emotions and Direction of Fit: Descriptive, Imperative or Both? The dominant view about emotions is that they have a descriptive, mind-to-world...

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Coping with internal uncertainty: the semantic-expansion effect Dealing with uncertainty is generally aversive yet an unavoidable aspect of life....

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The brain as a mixture of experts: the neurocomputational basis of multiple parallel systems for learning and control It has long been suggested...

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The evolution of vocal expression of emotions Expression and perception of emotions play an important role in social species, because they...

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The impact of emotional public life on individual emotions. Since WWII, culture in many Western societies have become emotionalized, which is due...

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Hidden knobs: Mechanisms for flexible goal-directed decision-making Sequential sampling models have been tremendously successful in describing...

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The Epistemic Value of Sad Music: Reflection as a Motivation to Listen to Sad Music Why do people enjoy sad music? Recently, empirical studies on...

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Children’s Developing Understanding of the Utility of Emotions for Cognitive and Physical Performance In popular culture, positive emotions are...

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Construals, consciousness, and connection: How we see the world drives our feelings about other people Emotion and consciousness are intimately...

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Emotional Acculturation: How emotions may change upon sustained (Inter)cultural contact and what this might mean for emotion theory as well as...

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