January 17: Introduction:

Reading:
1) James, W. (1884). What is an Emotion? Mind, 9, 188-205.
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/emotion.htm

January 24: The Evolution of Emotions:

Reading:
1) Darwin, C. R. (1872). The expression of the emotions in man and animals. London: John Murray.
    Read the Introduction, Chapters 1-3 and the final chapter
http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Freeman_TheExpressionoftheEmotions.html
2) Paul Ekman, E. Richard Sorenson, and Wallace V. Friesen (1969). Pan-Cultural Elements in Facial Displays of Emotion. Science, 164: 86-88.
3) LeDoux, J. (1996). The Emotional Brain. Simon & Schuster: New York. Chapters 1-3.

January 31: The Neuroanatomy of Emotions:

Readings:
1) Damasio, A. Descartes' Error, Chapters 1-3
2) LeDoux, J. (1996). The Emotional Brain. Simon & Schuster: New York. Chapter 4.
3) Phan, K.L. (2004). Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Human Emotions, CNS Spectrums, 9(4), 258-266.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/tor/Papers/Phan_Wager_2004_CNS_Emotion_review.pdf
4) Barrett, L.F. & Wager, T.D. (2006). The Structure of Emotions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 79-83.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/tor/Papers/Feldman-Barret_and_Wager-2006.pdf

Class Demonstration: The dissection of a sheep brain
Useful Web Links for Brain Anatomy:
Webanatomy: Brain Structures and their Functions
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Structure1.html
The Architecture of the Brain: Very basic, but a good starting point
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/brain_basics_know_your_brain.pdf

Week 4: February 7th: Emotional Expression

Readings:
1) LeDoux, Chapter 5: The Way We Were
2) Russell, J. A., Bachorowski, J., & Fernandez-Dols, J. (2003). Facial and vocal expressions of emotion. Annual Review of Psychology, 54(1), 329. Available online at http://www.columbia.edu/~rmk7/HC/HC_Readings/Russell.pdf
3) Feldman-Barrett, L.Mesquita, B., Ochsner, K.N., Gross, J.J. (2006). The Experience of Emotion. Annual Review of Psychology, 58: 373-403. Available online at http://www.columbia.edu/~ko2132/pdf/Barrett_AR_2006.pdf
4) Gladwell, M. (2002). The Naked Face. The New Yorker, August 5th, 38-? Available online at http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_08_05_a_face.htm
5) Bechara, A. & Naqvi, N. (2004). Listening to your heart: interoceptive awareness as a gateway to feeling, Antoine Bechara and Nasir Naqvi, Nature Neuroscience, 7, 102-103. http://www.brams.umontreal.ca/cours/files/PSY-6022A2006/PRainvile/Lectures/Bechara_NatNeurosci2004.pdf

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Week 5: February 14th (Valentine's Day) Culture & Gender

Readings:
1) Niiya, Y., Ellsworth, P. C., & Yamaguchi, S. (2006). Amae in Japan and the United States: An exploration of a "culturally unique" emotion. Emotion, 6(2), 279-295. Available in PsycArticles.
http://remote.slc.edu:2319/journals/emo/6/2/279.html
2) Lindquist, K. A., Barrett, L. F., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Russell, J. A. (2006). Language and the perception of emotion. Emotion, 6(1), 125-138. Available online at http://www2.bc.edu/~barretli/pubs/2006/Lindquist_et_al_2006.pdf
3) Wager, T.D. & Ochsner, K.N. (2005). Sex Differences in the emotional brain. NeuroReport, Vol. 16, p. 85-87. Available online at http://www.columbia.edu/~ko2132/pdf/Wager_Ochsner_sex-diffs_emot_brain.pdf
4) Matsumoto, D. (2001). Cross-cultural psychology in the 21st century. In Halonen, J.S. & Davis, S.F. (Eds.), The Many Faces of Psychological Research in the 21st Century, e-book, Available online at http://teachpsych.lemoyne.edu/teachpsych/faces/script/Ch05.htm

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Week 6: February 21st: Development of Emotions

1) Siegel, D. (2001). Toward an interpersonal neurobiology of the developing mind: attachment relationships, "mindsight", and neural integration. Infant Mental Health Journal, 22, 67-94. Available in EBSCOHost Academic Search http://remote.slc.edu:2390/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11772284&site=ehost-live

2) Lewis, M. (2000). The emergence of human emotions. In Lewis, M. & Haviland-Jones, J.M. (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions (2nd ed.) (pp. 265-280). New York: Guilford Press.

3) Harris, P. (2000). Understanding emotion.In Lewis, M. & Haviland-Jones, J.M. (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions (2nd ed.) (pp. 281-292). New York: Guilford Press.

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Week 7: February 28th: Emotional Memory

Readings
1) LeDoux, Chapters 6 & 7
2) McGaugh, J.L. (2003). Memory and Emotion. New York: Columbia. Chapters 1-3
3) Dolcos, F., LaBar, K.S., Cabeza, R. (2005). Remembering one year later: Role of the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory system in retrieving emotional memories. PNAS, 102, 2626-2631. Available online

Week 8: March 7th: Emotional Memory

Readings
1) McGaugh, Chapters 4-6
2) LaBar, K.S. & Cabeza, R. (2006). Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory. Nature Neuroscience Reviews, 7, 54-64. Available online
3) LeDoux, Chapter 8

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SPRING BREAK

Week 9: March 28th: Emotions and Cognition

1) LeDoux, Chapter 9

2) Descartes Error, Damasio, Part II: Chapters 5-7 (You should probably also read chapter 4, which is really the end of Part I)

3) Ochsner, K.N. & Gross, J.J. (2005). The cognitive control of emotion. Trends in Cognitive Science, 9, 242-249. Available online

4) Ochsner, K.N. & Barrett, L.F. (2001). A Multiprocess Perspective on the Neuroscience of Emotion. In T. Mayne & G. Bonnano (Eds.), Emotion: Current Issues and Future Directions. New York: Guilford Press. Available online

Presentation Possibilities for Chess & A.Lee

Week 10: April 4th:Decision Making:

1) Damasio, Descartes Error: Part III: Chapters 9-11

2) Bechara, A., Damasio, H., Tranel, D. & Damasio, A.R. (2005). The Iowa Gambling task and the somatic maker hypothesis : some questions and answers. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 159-162. Available online

3) Grimes, K. (2003). To trust is human. New Scientist, May 10.

4) Sanfey, A.G., Loewenstein, G., McClure, S.M. & Cohen, J.D. (2006). Neuroeconomics: cross-currents in research on decision-making. Trends in Cognitive Science, 10,108-116. Available online

5) Driven to market, Nature, 443, 502-504. (2006)

6) Rorie, A.E. & Newsome, W.T. (2005). A general mechanism for decision-making in the human brain? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 41-43.

Presentation Possibilities for Margot & Matt

Week 11: April 11th: Hedonics/Reward: Meredith/Naomi B./Christina

Berridge, K. C. (2004). Simple pleasures. (invited column) Psychological Science Agenda, 18 (11). American Psychological Association. APA Online, 2004. Available online

Berridge, K.C. & Robinson, T.E. (2003). Parsing reward.  Trends in Neurosciences, 26(9), 507-513. Available online

Berridge, K.C. & Winkielman, P. (2003). What is an unconscious emotion? Cognition & Emotion, 17, 181-211. Available online

Seligman, Martin E. P.; Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (2000). Positive psychology: An introduction. American Psychologist, 55(1), 5-14. Available in PsycArticles

Seligman, Martin E. P., Steen, Tracy A.; Park, Nansook; Peterson, Christopher (2005). Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions. American Psychologist, 60(5), 410-421. Available in PsycArticles

Gilbert, D.T., Lieberman, M.D., Morewedge, C.K & Wilson, T.D. (2004). The peculiar longevity of things not so bad. Psychological Science, 15, 14-19. Available online

Presentation Possibilities for Meredith, Naomi B. & Christina

Week 12: April 18th: Social Neuroscience (Empathy/Pain):
Empathy: Laurel/Ali - Presentation Possibilities
Pain: Danika/Carolyn - Presentation Possibilities

Frith, Uta; Frith, Chris.(2001). The Biological Basis of Social Interaction. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 151-155. In library database

Ramachandran, V. (1995). Mirror Neurons and imitation learning as the driving force behind "the great leap forward" in human evolution, The Edge, Available online

Qiu, J. (2006). Does it hurt? Nature, 444, 143-145.

Adolphs, R. (2006). The Social Brain. Engineering & Science No., 2-8.

Pain system outline (handout)

Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2004). Why rejection hurts: a common neural alarm system for physical and social pain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 294-300. Available online

Blakemore, S-J, Winston, J. & Frith, U. (2004). Social cognitive neuroscience: where are we heading? TICS, 8, 216-222. (NB Figures 1 & 2 are switched)

Frith, C.D. & Frith, U. (2006). How we predict what other people are going to do. Brain Research, 1079, 36-46.

Week 13: April 25th: Social Neuroscience (Emotions and Health):
Sarah/Naomi F. - Presentation Possibilities

Gross, J. (1998). The emerging field of emotion regulation: an integrative review. Review of General Psychology, 2, 271-299. Available online

Allman, J.M., Watson, K.K., Tetreault, N.A., Hakeem, A.Y. (2005). Intuition and autism: a possible role for von Economo neurons. TICS, 9, 367-373. Available online

Stress system handout

Kandel, E. (1998).A new intellectual framework for psychiatry. American Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 457-469. Available online

Kabbaj, M. (2004). Neurobiological Bases of Individual Differences in Emotional and Stress Responsiveness. Arch. Neurology, 61, 1009-1012.

Lerner, J.S., Dahl, R.E., Hariri, A.R., Taylor, S.E. (2006). Facial Expressions of Emotion Reveal Neuroendocrine and Cardiovascular Stress Responses. Biological Psychiatry, Available online

Socioeconomic status and health: the challenge of the gradient, Nancy E. Adler, Thomas Boyse, Margaret A. Chesney, Sheldon Cohen, Susan Folkman, Robert L. Kahn and S. Leonard Syme, In: Foundations in Social Neuroscience, ed. John T. Cacioppo et al., pp. 1095-1109, MIT Press, 2002 (photocopy)

Week 14: May 2nd: Moral Cognition/Neuroethics: Basya/Bettina
Presentation Possibilities

1) Anderson, S.W., Bechara, A., Damasio, H., Tranel, D. & Damasio, A.R. (1999). Impairment of social and moral behavior related to early damage in human prefrontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 1032-1037. Available online

2) Hauser, M.D. (2006). The liver and the moral organ. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1(3):214-220. Available online

3) Greene, J. & Haidt, J. (2002). How (and where) does moral judgment work? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 517. Available online

4) Damasio, A. (2007). Neuroscience and Ethics: Intersections. The American Journal of Bioethics, 7. Available online

5) Zimmer, C. (2004). Whose Life would you save? Discover, April, Available online

6) Casebeer, W.D. (2003). Moral cognition and its neural constituents. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 4, 840-846.

7) Moll, J., Krueger, F., Zahn, R., Pardini, M. , de Oliverira-Souza R. & GrafmanHuman, J. (2006). Fronto-mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation. PNAS, 103, 15623-15628.

Week 15: May 9th: Conference Presentations