Defining Emotion Concepts

The Role of Emotion in Psychological Therapy.

This Special Issue of Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice provides a series of articles detailing efforts to consider the concepts of emotion and emotion regulation in relation to clinical assessment and psychopathology intervention efforts across the lifespan. In our commentary, we review some common themes and challenges presented in these articles to move forward the discussion of emot...

Defining “Center and Edge” Concepts and Their Relationship with Durability and Dynamism in Architecture

Defining Overlapping Concepts of Program Evaluation in Medical Education

Program evaluation is an important part of any educational system and provides very useful information on how to design and implement educational programs  A comprehensive program evaluation can inform the policymakers about the effectiveness of the training and provides feedback that can be effective in achieving the desired goals.  

Defining Concepts of Emotion: From Philosophy to Science

This paper is motivated by a series of (related) questions as to whether a computer can have pleasure and pain, what pleasure (and intensity of pleasure) is, and, ultimately, what concepts of emotion are. To determine what an emotion is, is a matter of conceptualization; namely, understanding and explicitly encoding the concept of emotion as people use it in everyday life. This is a notoriously...

Trends and developments: research on emotions Courants et tendances: recherche sur les émotions

Defining ‘‘emotion’’ is a notorious problem. Without consensual conceptualization and operationalization of exactly what phenomenon is to be studied, progress in theory and research is difficult to achieve and fruitless debates are likely to proliferate. A particularly unfortunate example is William James’s asking the question ‘‘What is an emotion?’’ when he really meant ‘‘feeling’’, a misnomer...