1. An Introduction to Psychological Construction / Lisa Feldman Barrett and James A. Russell
I. Foundations ; 2. Mental Mechanisms and Psychological Construction / Mitchell Herschbach and William Bechtel ; 3. Ten Common Misconceptions about Psychological Construction Theories of Emotion / Lisa Feldman Barrett
II. Psychological Construction Theories. 4. The Conceptual Act Theory: A Roadmap / Lisa Feldman Barrett, Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, and Lawrence W. Barsalou ; 5. The Neuroscience of Construction: What Neuroimaging Approaches Can Tell Us about How the Brain Creates the Mind / Suzanne Oosterwijk, Alexandra Touroutoglou, and Kristen A. Lindquist ; 6. Emotions as Semantic Pointers: Constructive Neural Mechanisms / Paul Thagard and Tobias Schröder ; 7. Affect Dynamics: Iterative Reprocessing in the Production of Emotional Responses ; William A. Cunningham, Kristen Dunfield and Paul Stillman ; 8. My Psychological Construction Perspective, with a Focus on Conscious Affective Experience / James A. Russell ; 9. Emotions as Emergent Variables / James A. Coan and Marlen Z. Gonzalez
III. Core Affect ; 10. Brain Mechanisms of Pleasure: The Core Affect Component of Emotion, Morton L. Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge ; 11. Mesolimbic Dopamine and Emotion: A Complex Contribution to a Complex Phenomenon / John D. Salamone, Mercè Correa, Patrick A. Randall, and Eric J. Nunes ; 12. An Approach to Mapping the Neurophysiological State of the Body to Affective Experience / Ian R. Kleckner and Karen S. Quigley
IV. Commentary and Consilience. 13. Can an Appraisal Model Be Compatible with Psychological Constructionism? / Andrew Ortony and Gerald Clore ; 14. Basic Emotions, Psychological Construction, and the Problem of Variability / Andrea Scarantino ; 15. A Sociodynamic Perspective on the Construction of Emotion / Michael Boiger and Batja Mesquita ; 16. Evolutionary Constraints and Cognitive Mechanisms in the Construction of an Emotion: Insights from Human and Nonhuman Primates / Jennifer M.B. Fugate
V. Integration and Reflection ; 17. The Greater Constructionist Project for Emotion / James A. Russell ; 18. Construction as an Integrative Framework for the Science of the Emotion / Lisa Feldman Barrett
Afterword: Emotional Construction in the Brain / Joseph LeDoux
