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DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 715-734Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579405050340
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- NIDA NIH HHS [R01 DA017820, R01 DA017820-01] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH068318, R01 MH068318-01A1, R01 MH059139, MH01232, MHK02-74677, MH59139, R01 MH068318, R01 MH036197, MH36197] Funding Source: Medline
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The circumplex model of affect proposes that all affective states arise from cognitive interpretations of core neural sensations that are the product of two independent neurophysiological systems. This model stands in contrast to theories of basic emotions, which posit that a discrete and independent neural system subserves every emotion. We propose that basic emotion theories no longer explain adequately the vast number of empirical observations from studies in affective neuroscience, and we suggest that a conceptual shift is needed in the empirical approaches taken to the study of emotion and affective psychopathologies. The circumplex model of affect is more consistent with many recent findings from behavioral, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, and developmental studies of affect. Moreover, the model offers new theoretical and empirical approaches to studying the development of affective disorders as well as the genetic and cognitive underpinnings of affective processing within the central nervous system.
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