Papers by Phoebe Ellsworth
Nature Human Behaviour, 2021
Research over the past decades has demonstrated the explanatory power of emotions, feelings, moti... more Research over the past decades has demonstrated the explanatory power of emotions, feelings, motivations, moods, and other affective processes when trying to understand and predict how we think and behave. In this consensus article, we ask: Has the increasingly recognized impact of affective phenomena ushered in a new era, the era of affectivism? The behavioural and cognitive sciences have faced perennial challenges of incorporating emotions, feelings, motivations, moods, and other affective processes into models of human behaviour and the human mind. Such processes have long been marginalised or ignored, typically on the basis that they were irrational, unmeasurable, or simply unenlightening. However, it has become increasingly difficult to deny that these processes are not only linked to our well-being, but also that they shape our behaviour and drive key cognitive mechanisms such as attention, learning, memory, and decision-making. Fertile ground for addressing these challenges lies in the writings of the ancient Greeks, and of eminent scholars such as Descartes, Hume, Darwin, Wundt and James, to name but a few. The most recent seeds were sown in the 1960s, allowing an unprecedented, multidisciplinary interest in affective processes to take root around twenty years later. Research on such processes has positively blossomed since, as growing numbers of dedicated researchers, departments, research centres, journals and societies contribute to the affective sciencesa highly integrative endeavour that spans disciplines, methods, and theories. 1-4 By Supplementary Reading List Please note: No attempt has been made to ensure that this list is representative or balanced across disciplines, impact, time or theories. A more complete analysis and explanation of individual papers, books and events that led to the rise of the affectivism is currently underway as part of a complementary project.
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
Emotion in the Human Face, 1972
American support for the death penalty has steadily increased since 1966, when opponents outnumbe... more American support for the death penalty has steadily increased since 1966, when opponents outnumbered supporters, and now in the mid-1990s is at a near record high. Research over the last 20 years has tended to confirm the hypothesis that most people’s death penalty attitudes (pro or con) are based on emotion rather than information or rational argument. People feel strongly about the death penalty, know little about it, and feel no need to know more. Factual information (e.g., about deterrence and discrimination) is generally irrelevant to people’s attitudes, and they are aware that this is so. Support for the death penalty has risen for most major felonies. Youth is seen as much less of a mitigating factor than it was 35 years ago, but most people still oppose the execution of the mentally retarded. As crime rates have risen despite repeated promises by politicians to “get tough on crime,” the death penalty has become an increasingly prominent issue in electoral politics, suggestin...
In two frequently cited articles, Sommers and Ellsworth (2000, 2001) concluded that the influence... more In two frequently cited articles, Sommers and Ellsworth (2000, 2001) concluded that the influence of a defendant’s race on White mock jurors is more pronounced in interracial trials in which race remains a silent background issue than in trials involving racially charged incidents. Referring to this variable more generally as race salience, we predicted that any aspect of a trial that leads White mock jurors to be concerned about racial bias should render the race of a defendant less influential. Though subsequent researchers have further explored this idea of race salience, they have manipulated it in the same way as in these original studies. As such, the scope of the extant literature on race salience and juror bias is narrower than many realize. The present article seeks to clarify this and other misconceptions regarding race salience and jury decision-making, identifying in the process avenues for future research on the biasing influence of defendant race
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Papers by Phoebe Ellsworth