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Expressions of emotion as mediated by context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2008

JEANETTE ALTARRIBA
JEANETTE ALTARRIBA*
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Department of Psychology, Social Sciences 369, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USAja087@albany.edu
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In her thoughtful work regarding various aspects of emotion and emotion related words, Pavlenko explores a variety of perspectives on how we might characterize and conceptualize expressions of emotion. It is a work that is quite rich in breadth – one that leads to a variety of different thoughts on this topic, many of which are amenable to experimental exploration. Thus, the work prompts the field into asking new and interesting questions. My comments will relate some of these new directions that are prompted by reading Pavlenko's paper, as well as a few ideas that constitute a bit of a reinterpretation of her conclusions. Towards the end, a body of literature (i.e., Emotional Stroop Effects) that is highly relevant but was not covered will be noted as it yields a greater understanding of the activation and access of emotion.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , July 2008 , pp. 165 - 167
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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