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History and Philosophy of Science

Representative Papers

Barrett, L. F. & Theriault, J. (2025). What’s real? A philosophy of science for social psychology. In D. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, E. Finkel, & W. B. Mendes (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Psychology, (6th ed.). Situational Press. https://openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/what-s-real-a-philosophy-of-science-for-social-psychology/section/ca34c35d-e211-427f-959e-59720e42571d

Westlin, C., Theriault, J. E., Katsumi, Y., Nieto-Castanon, A., Kucyi, A., Ruf, S. F., Brown, S., Pavel, M., Erdogmus, D., Brooks, D. H., Quigley, K. S., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., & Barrett, L. F. (2023). Improving the study of brain-behavioral relationships by revisiting basic assumptions. Trends in Cognitive Science, 27, 246-257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.12.015

Barrett, L. F., & Satpute, A. B. (2019). Historical pitfalls and new directions in the neuroscience of emotion. Neuroscience Letters, Feb 6; 693:9-18. PMCID: PMC5785564

Barrett, L. F. (2017). Categories and their role in the science of emotion. Psychological Inquiry, 28, 20-26. PMCID: PMC5736315

Gendron, M. & Barrett, L. F. (2017). Facing the past: A history of the face in psychological research on emotion perception. In J.M. Fernandez-Dols & J.A. Russell (Eds). The Science of Facial Expression. New York: Oxford. PMID: 27736108

Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2009). Reconstructing the past: A century of ideas about emotion in psychology. Emotion Review, 1, 316-339. PMCID: PMC2835158