Hidden Affections: Presumptions that Continue to Misshape The Measurement of Emotion

All empirical investigations rely on formative presumptions. Over the past 70 plus years, research emotion has long been reliant data collected using subjective responses and by experimental exposure to target stimuli, increasingly with various brain scanning technologies. During this period neuroscience greatly contributed our understanding of how emotions are formed what functions they perform in realm politics social life more generally. I identify a number consequential presumptions, some differing combinations, that have foundations for commonly used measures measurement practices. These presumptions enable generated considerable literature. But these become increasing tenuous as insights produced slowly integrated into emotion. The gradually adopted new insights. adjustments benefits derive described final section.