ITRW on Speech and Emotion September 5-7, 2000 Newcastle, Northern Ireland, UK

Theoretical approaches to emotion

Randolph R. Cornelius

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

Four major theoretical perspectives on emotion in psychology are described. Examples of the ways in which research on emotion and speech utilize aspects of the various perspectives are presented and a plea is made for students of emotion and speech to consider more self-consciously the place of their research within each of the perspectives. integration of theories from the four perspectives.

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Bibliographic reference.  Cornelius, Randolph R. (2000): "Theoretical approaches to emotion", In SpeechEmotion-2000, 3-10.