Showing papers by "George E. Marcus published in 2022"
TL;DR: This article identified a number consequential presumptions, in some differing combinations, that have been the foundations for commonly used measures of emotion and measurement practices, and the adjustments and benefits that derive are described in the final section.
Abstract: All empirical investigations rely on formative presumptions. Over the past 70 plus years, research on emotion has long been reliant on data collected using subjective responses and by experimental exposure to target stimuli, and increasingly with various brain scanning technologies. During this period neuroscience research greatly contributed to our understanding of how emotions are formed and what functions they perform in the realm of politics and social life more generally. I identify a number consequential presumptions, in some differing combinations, that have been the foundations for commonly used measures of emotion and measurement practices. These presumptions enable research that has generated a considerable empirical literature. But these presumptions have become increasing tenuous as insights produced by neuroscience has slowly been integrated into the measurement of emotion. The measurement of emotion has gradually adopted these new insights. The adjustments and benefits that derive are described in the final section.
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02 Sep 2022
TL;DR: In this article , the authors evaluate the extent to which current emotion research programs rely on a full-blown theory of emotion and find that the absence of, or reliance on, incomplete theories have generated results that are demonstrably flawed.
Abstract: Emotion is an increasing influential area of research in psychology, political psychology, political science and other social sciences. Research is best when driven by theory because the absence of theory generates research that is subject to vagaries of meaning, interpretation, and lack of coherence, study to study. In brief, theory provides essential foundations that enable scientific explanations to be rigorously tested. As I demonstrate below, absence of, or reliance on, incomplete theories have generated results that are demonstrably flawed. I evaluate the extent to which current emotion research programs rely on a full blown theory. The programs under consideration, in alphabetical order, are: appraisal theories in psychology and political science; emotion regulation; and, valence based accounts. After a brief overview of the elements, individually and collectively, that constitute a theory of emotion. I find this worthy ambition awaits fulfillment.
TL;DR: Zitzewitz et al. as mentioned in this paper discuss the "will to collaborate" among anthropologists in projects like Traffic in Culture, and anthropologists and art world professionals in general.
Abstract: Karin Zitzewitz: We wanted to begin our conversation by asking about what we call here “the will to collaborate,” both among anthropologists in projects like Traffic in Culture, and among anthropologists and art world professionals. Since Traffic in Culture, George has written about this in terms of para-ethnography, in which anthropologists collaborate with “experts with shared, discovered and negotiated critical sensibilities,” including “those who are deeply complicit with and implicated in powerful institutional processes” (2000: 3,5). We recognize that current strands in the anthropology of art tend to rest upon collaborative processes with artists and, to much less of an extent, with other art-world actors. That stands in contrast with the call for independent ethnographies that you all made in the pages of Traffic.