Additional Reading
Below are optional, additional readings for each weekly module of the course.
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Optional: Week 1
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)
Charles Darwin
“Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall” (2012)
Xu Liu et al
“Memory Engram Cells Have Come of Age” (2015)
Susumu Tonegawa et al
“The Effects of Language on Judgments of Universal Facial Expressions of Emotion” (1992)
David Matsumoto and Manish Assar
“Culture and the Categorization of Emotions” (1991)
James A. Russell
Optional: Week 2
Hamlet and Emotions (2019)
ed. Paul Megna, Bríd Phillips, and R. S. White
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament (1993)
Kay Redfield Jamison
“Popular Performance, the Broadside Ballad, and Ophelia’s Madness” (2013)
Caralyn Bialo
“The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask” (2011)
Peter Meineck
“Hamlet and the Psychology of Rational Choice Under Uncertainty” (1993)
John Orbell
“The Functions of Emotion in Decisionmaking and Decision Avoidance” (2007)
Christopher J. Anderson
“The Logic of Emotion” (1977)
Robert Solomon
“Influencing jurors’ perceptions of guilt: Expression of emotionality during testimony” (1995)
Randall T. Salekin, James R. P. Ogloff, Cathy McFarland, Richard Rogers
“Emotional Empathy as Related to Mimicry Reactions at Different Levels of Information Processing” (2003)
Marianne Sonnby-Borgström et al
“Imitation, Empathy, and Mirror Neurons” (2009)
Marco Iacoboni
Optional: Week 3
“Legislating with Affect: Emotion and Legislative Law Making” (2013)
Carol Sanger
Felon: Poems (2019)
Reginald Dwayne Betts
“Imagining by feeling: a case for compassion in legal reasoning” (2017)
Maksymilian Del Mar
“Law and Compassion” (2017)
Dermot Feenan
Optional: Week 4
“The Eolian Harp”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves (2016)
Charles Fernyhough
“The Poetics of Orphanhood: Wordsworth’s ‘Salisbury Plain’, ‘The Vale of Esthwaite’, and ‘Tintern Abbey’” (2009)
John Hughes
“The Neural Sublime” from The Neural Sublime (2010)
Alan Richardson
“Imagination: Literary and Cognitive Intersections” (2015)
Alan Richardson
Optional: Week 5
“Neurocognitive poetics: methods and models for investigating the neuronal and cognitive-affective bases of literature reception” (2015)
Artur Jacobs
“Subliminal Emotional Words Impact Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Performance and Event-Related Brain Potentials” (2017)
Laura Jiménez-Ortega et al
Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel (2019)
Laura Otis
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020)
Cathy Park Hong
Optional: Week 6
Virginia Woolf: The Voyage Inward (1970)
ch. 3
Harvena Richter
“The Multiple Self-Aspects Framework: Self-Concept Representation and Its Implications” (2011)
Allen R. McConnell
“Specifying the self for cognitive neuroscience” (2011)
Kalina Christoff et al
“Parallax as a Metaphor for the Structure of ‘Ulysses’” (1983)
Barbara Stevens Heusel
We Have Never Been Modern (1991)
Bruno Latour
“Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light” from War of the Foxes (2015)
Richard Siken
“The Importance of Touch in Development” (2010)
Evan L. Aridel and Catherine H. Rankin
“Touch Deprivation and Aggression Against Self Among Adolescents” (2005)
Tiffany Field
“The Use of Human Touch to Improve the Well-Being of Older Adults: A Holistic Nursing Intervention” (2001)
Elizabeth Bush