Emotions are related to mood, personality and motivation, and they cause measurable physiological and psychological changes. The study of emotions and feelings is important because they are at the ...

AbstractThis paper aims to organize the relationship between "music and emotion," which the author has repeatedly addressed in music research and music philosophy since 2025, and to reconstruct it as ...

“There is nothing as practical as a good theory” was Kurt Lewin’s (1943) way of asserting the value of theory in guiding research that addresses broad social problems. But psychological theory also ...

What is a theory of emotion? -- Problems for a theory of emotion -- Contemporary theories of emotions: a review -- Basic principles of the theory -- The concept of primary emotions -- The evolution of ...

This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on: What Actually Are Emotions? "The young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements." — ...

During his career at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies within USC Viterbi and USC Stevens, Professor Jonathan Gratch has helped define the science of affective computing and its role in ...

Every day, billions of people scroll through social media posts, online reviews and news feeds filled with emotional content—from glowing five-star reviews to rage-inducing social media rants. Those ...