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Lectures
"Is the nose scrunch a universal facial expression of disgust?" from International Society for Research on Emotion, St. Louis, Missouri, July 2017
"Animal reminders lead to lessened disgust," from Society for Social and Personality Psychology, San Antonio, Texas, March 2017
"Shame: A cluster concept," from The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Louisville, KY, March 2016
"Cultural differences in animal reminder disgust," from The Society for Affective Science, Chicago, IL, March 2016
"Disgust elicitors do not universally elicit disgust," from the International Convention of Psychological Science, Amsterdam, March 2015
"Disgust has no close translation equivalence in Malayalam and Hindi" from the Society for Social and Personality Psychology, Long Beach, California, February 2015
“Language, Emotion, and Facial Expression,” from The Emotional Brain Conference, May 2011
Media Coverage About Our Work
An interview with James Russell on facial expressions and emotion for University Loyola Andalusia, January 2017
Publications About Our Work
Jarrett, C. (2016). Psychologists said it's disgusting to be reminded that you are an animal. It seems they were wrong. Research Digest. [article]
Zachar, P., & Ellis, R., Eds. (2012). Categorical versus dimensional models of affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Our Publications
2017:
Crivelli, C., Russell, J. A., Jarillo, S., & Fernández-Dols, J. M. (2017). Recognizing spontaneous facial expressions of emotion in a small-scale society of Papua New Guinea. Emotion, 17(2), 337. [pdf]
DiGirolamo, M. A., & Russell, J. A. (2017). The emotion seen in a face can be a methodological artifact: The process of elimination hypothesis. Emotion, 17(3), 538. [pdf]
Ershadi, M., Goldstein, T. R., Pochedly, J., & Russell, J. A. (2017). Facial expressions as performances in mime. Cognition and Emotion, 1-10. [pdf]
Ershadi, M., Russell, J. A., & Herz, R. S. (2017). The (Non)-Effect of Induced Emotion on Desire for Different Types of Foods. Food Quality and Preference. [pdf]
Kollareth, D. & Russell, J.A. (2017). On the emotions associated with violations of three moral codes (community, autonomy, divinity). Motivation and Emotion. [pdf]
Kollareth, D. & Russell, J.A. (2017). The English word disgust has no exact translation in Hindi or Malayalam. Cognition and emotion, 31(6), 1169-1180. [pdf]
Kuppens, P., Tuerlinckx, F., Yik, M., Koval, P., Coosemans, J., Zeng, K. J., & Russell, J. A. (2017). The relation between valence and arousal in subjective experience varies with personality and culture. Journal of personality, 85(4), 530-542. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2017). Emotion recognition: Is it universal?. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2017). Impressive new theory and theorist. Psychological Inquiry, 28(1), 50-51. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2017). Mixed emotions viewed from the psychological constructionist perspective. Emotion Review, 9(2), 111-117. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Dols, J. M. F. (Eds.). (2017). The Science of Facial Expression. Oxford University Press.
RUSSELL, J. A. (2017). Toward a Broader Perspective on Facial Expressions. The Science of Facial Expression, 93. [pdf]
2016:
Kollareth, D. & Russell, J.A. (2016). Is it disgusting to be reminded that you are an animal? Cognition and Emotion. [pdf]
2015:
Barrett, L. F., & Russell, J. A., Eds. (2015). The psychological construction of emotion. New York: Guilford Press.
Han, D. Kollareth, D., & Russell, J.A. (2015). The words for disgust in English, Korean, and Malayam questions its homogeneity. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 35(5), 569-588. [pdf]
Kayyal, M. H., Pochedly, J., McCarthy, A., & Russell, J. A. (2015). On the limits of the relation of disgust to judgments of immorality. Frontiers in psychology, 6, #951. [pdf]
Kayyal, M.H., Widen, S.C., & Russell, J. A. (2015). Context is more powerful than we think: Contextual cues override facial cues even on valence. Emotion, 15, 287-291. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2015). My psychological constructionist perspective. In L. F. Barrett & J.A. Russell (Eds.) The psychological construction of emotion. Pp. 183-208. New York: Guilford Press.
Russell, J. A. (2015). The greater constructionist project for emotion. In L. F. Barrett & J.A. Russell (Eds.) The psychological construction of emotion. Pp. 429-447. New York: Guilford Press.
Widen, S. C., Pochedly, J. T., & Russell, J. A. (2015). The development of emotion concepts: A story superiority effect in older children and adolescents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 131, 186-192. [pdf]
2014:
Tseng, A., Bansal, R., Liu, J., Gerber, A., Goh, S., Posner, J., Colibazzi, T., Chiang, I-C., Russell, J. A., & Peterson, B., (2014). Using the circumplex model of affect to study valence and arousal ratings of emotional faces by children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44, 1332-1346.
Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2014). Dynamic Facial Expressions Allow Differentiation of Displays Intended to Convey Positive and Hubristic Pride. Emotion, 14(5), 857-864. [pdf]
2013:
Kayyal, M. H., & Widen, S. C. (2013). Monsters and Growling Dogs: A Dual-Source Theory of the Child's Concept of Fear. Psychological Topics, 22(2), 367-382. [pdf]
Trauffer, N. M., Widen, S. C., & Russell, J. A. (2013). Education and the Attribution of Emotion to Facial Expressions. Psychological Topics, 22(2), 237-247. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. (2013). Children’s interpretation of facial expressions: The long path from valence-based to specific discrete categories. Emotion Review. [pdf]
Widen, S. C., Pochedly, J. T., Pieloch, K., & Russell, J. A. (2013). Introducing the sick face. Motivation and Emotion, 37(3), 550-557. [pdf]
Widen, S. C., & Russell, J. A. (2013). Children's recognition of disgust in others. Psychological Bulletin, 139(2), 271-299. [pdf]
Yik, M., Widen, S. C., & Russell, J. A. (2013). The within-subjects design in the study of facial expressions. Cognition & Emotion, 27(6), 1062-1072. [pdf]
2012:
Kuppens, P., Tuerlinckx, F., Russell, J. A., & Barrett, L. F. (2012). The relation between valence and arousal in subjective experience. Psychological Bulletin, 139(4), 917-940. [pdf]
Pochedly, J. T., Widen, S. C., & Russell, J. A. (2012). What emotion does the “facial expression of disgust” express?. Emotion, 12(6), 1315. [pdf]
Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2012). Children’s understanding of nonverbal expressions of pride. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 379-385. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2012). Final remarks. In P. Zachar & R. Ellis (Eds.), Categorical versus dimensional models of affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Russell, J. A. (2012). From a psychological constructionist perspective. In P. Zachar & R. Ellis (Eds.), Categorical versus dimensional models of affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Russell, J. A. (2012). Preliminary comments on Panksepp. In P. Zachar & R. Ellis (Eds.), Categorical versus dimensional models of affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Russell, J. A., Rosenberg, E. L., & Lewis, M. D. (2012). Introduction to a special section on basic emotion theory. Emotion Review, 3, 363. [pdf]
2011:
Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2011). Preschoolers’ use of dynamic facial, bodily, and vocal cues to emotion. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 110, 52-61. [pdf]
Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2011). Putting motion in emotion: Do dynamic presentations increase preschooler's recognition of emotion? Cognitive Development, 26, 248-259. [pdf]
Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2011). When dynamic, the head and face alone can express pride. Emotion, 11, 990-993. [pdf]
Widen, S. C., Christy, A. M., Hewett, K., & Russell, J. A. (2011). Do proposed facial expressions of contempt, shame, embarrassment, and sympathy communicate the predicted emotion? Cognition and Emotion, 25, 898-906. [pdf]
Widen, S. C., & Naab, P. (2011). Can an anger face also be scared? Malleability of facial expressions. Emotion. Advanced online publication. [pdf]
Widen, S. C., & Russell, J. A. (2011). In building a script for an emotion, do preschoolers add its cause before its behavior consequence? Social Development, 20, 471-485. [pdf]
Yik, M., Russell, J. A., & Steiger, J. H. (2011). A 12-point circumplex structure of core affect. Emotion, 11, 705-731. [pdf]
2010:
Colibazzi, T., Posner, J., Wang, Z., Gorman, D., Gerber, A., Yu, Zhu, H., Kangarlu, A., Duan, Y., Russell, J. A., & Peterson, B. S. (2010). Neural systems subserving valence and arousal during the experience of induced emotions. Emotion, 10, 377-389. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2010). Children's scripts for social emotions: Causes and consequences are more central than are facial expressions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28, 565-581. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2010). Descriptive and prescriptive definitions of emotion. Emotion Review, 2, 377-378. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2010). Differentiation in preschoolers' categories for emotion. Emotion, 10, 651-661. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2010). The "disgust face" conveys anger to children. Emotion, 10, 455-466. [pdf]
2009:
Posner, J., Russell, J. A., Gerber, A., Gorman, D., Colibazzi, T., Yu, S., Wang, Z., Kangarlu, A., Zhu, H., Peterson, B. S. (2009). The neurophysiological bases of emotion: An fMRI study of the affective circumplex using emotion-denoting words. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 883-895. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2009). Emotion, Core Affect, and Psychological Construction. Cognition & Emotion, 23, 1259-1283. [pdf]
2008:
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2008). Children acquire emotion categories gradually. Cognitive Development, 23, 291-312. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2008). Children’s and adults’ understanding of the “disgust face.” Cognition and Emotion, 22, 1513-1541. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2008). Young children's understanding of other's emotions. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (pp. 348-363). New York, NY: Guilford.
2007:
Naab, P.J & Russell, J.A. (2007). Judgments of emotion from spontaneous facial expressions of New Guineans. Emotion, 7, 736-744. [pdf]
2006:
Barchard, K.A., & Russell, J.A. (2006). Bias in consensus scoring, with examples from ability emotional intelligence tests. Psicotherma, 18, 49-54. [pdf]
Fridlund, A. J., & Russell, J. A. (2006). The functions of facial expressions: What’s in a face. The Sage handbook of nonverbal communication, 299-319. [pdf]
Lindquist, K. A., Barrett, L.F., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Russell, J.A. (2006). Language and the perception of emotion. American Psychological Association, 6, 125-138. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2006). Emotions are not modules. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary 32, 53-72. [pdf]
2005:
Russell, J.A. (2005). Emotion in human consciousness is built on core affect. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 12, 26-42. [pdf]
2004:
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2004). The relative power of an emotion's facial expression, label, and behavioral consequence to evoke preschoolers' knowledge of its cause. Cognitive Development, 19, 111-125. [pdf]
2003:
Russell, J. A. (2003). Core affect and the psychological construction of emotion. Psychological Review, 110, 145-172. [pdf]
Russell, J.A., Bachorowski, J., & Fernandez-Dols, J.M. (2003). Facial and vocal expressions of emotion. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 329-349. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2003). A closer look at preschoolers' freely produced labels for facial expressions. Developmental Psychology, 39, 114-128. [pdf]
2002:
Russell, J. A. & Widen, S. C. (2002). A label superiority effect in children's categorization of facial expressions. Social Development, 11, 30-52. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Widen, S. C. (2002). Words versus faces in evoking preschool children's knowledge of the causes of emotions. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 26, 97-103. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2002). Gender and preschoolers' perception of emotion. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 48, 248-262. [pdf]
2001:
Yik, M. S. M., & Russell, J. A. (2001). Predicting the Big Two of affect from the Big Five of personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 35, 247-277. [pdf]
2000:
Russell, J. A., & Lemay, G. (2000). Concepts of emotion. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland (Eds.) Handbook of Emotions, 2nd edition. New York: Guilford.
1999:
Carroll, J. M., Yik, M., Russell, J. A., & Barrett, L. F. (1999). On the psychometric principles of affect. Review of General Psychology, 3, 14-22. [pdf]
Russell, J.A., & Barrett, L. F. (1999). Core affect, prototypical emotional episodes, and other things called emotion: Dissecting the elephant. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 805-819. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Carroll, J. M. (1999b). On the bipolarity of positive and negative affect. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 3-30. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Carroll, J. A. (1999a). The phoenix of bipolarity: A reply to Watson and Tellegen. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 611-617. [pdf]
1998:
Russell, J. A. (1989). Culture, scripts, and children's understanding of emotion. In C. Saarni & P. L. Harris (Eds.), Children's understanding of emotions. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press.
Yik, M. S. M., Meng, Z., & Russell, J. A. (1998). Adults' freely produced emotion labels for babies' spontaneous facial expressions. Cognition and Emotion,12, 723-730. [pdf]
1997:
Carroll, J. M., & Russell, J. A. (1997). Facial expressions in Hollywood's portrayal of emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 164-176. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (1997). How shall an emotion be called? In R. Plutchik and H. Conte (Eds.). Circumplex models of personality and emotion (pp 205-220). Washington, D.C.: APA Press.
Russell, J. A., & Fernandez-Dols, J. M. (1997). What does a facial expression mean? In J. A. Russell & J. M. Fernandez-Dols (Eds.), The psychology of facial expression: Studies in emotion and social interaction, 2nd series (pp. 3-30). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]
1996:
Carroll, J.M., & Russell, J.A. (1996). Do facial expressions express specific emotions? Judging emotion from the face in context. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 205-218. [pdf]
1995:
Russell, J.A. (1995). Facial expressions of emotion: What lies beyond minimal universality? Psychological Bulletin, 118, 379-391. [pdf]
1994:
Russell, J. A. (1994). Is there universal recognition of emotion from facial expression?: A review of the cross-cultural studies. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 102-141. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Fehr, B. (1994). Fuzzy concepts in a fuzzy hierarchy: Varieties of anger. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 186-205. [pdf]
1993:
Russell, J. A. (1993). Forced-choice response format in the study of facial expression. Motivation and Emotion, 17, 41-51. [pdf]
Russell, J.A., & Suzuki, N., & Ishida, N. (1993). Canadian, Greek, and Japanese Freely Produced Emotion Labels for Facial Expressions. Motivation and Emotion, 17, 337-351. [pdf]
1991:
Russell, J. A. (1991). Culture and the categorization of emotion. Psychological Bulletin, 110, 426-450. [pdf]
Russell, J.A. (1991). In defense of a prototype approach to emotion concepts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 37-47. [pdf]
1990:
Russell, J. A. (1990). Measures of emotion. In R. Plutchik & H. Kellerman (Eds.), Emotion: Theory, research, and experience, Vol. 4 (pp. 83-111). New York, NY: Academic Press.
Russell, J. A. (1990). The preschooler's understanding of the causes and consequences of emotion. Child Development, 61, 1872-1881. [pdf]
1989:
Russell, J.A., Weiss, A., & Mendelsohn, G.A. (1989). Affect Grid: A Single-Item Scale of Pleasure and Arousal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 3, 493-502. [pdf]
1986:
Bullock, M., & Russell, J. A. (1986). Concepts of emotion in developmental psychology. In C. E. Izard & P. B. Read (Eds.), Measuring emotions in infants and children, Vol. II (pp. 203-237). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Bullock, M. (1986). Fuzzy concepts and the perception of emotion in facial expressions. Social Cognition, 4, 309-341. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Bullock, M. (1986). On the dimensions preschoolers use to interpret facial expressions of emotion. Developmental Psychology, 22, 97-102. [pdf]
Woudzia, L., & Russell, J.A. (1986). Affective judgments, common sense, and Zajonc's thesis of independence. Motivation and Emotion, 10, 168-183. [pdf]
1984:
Fehr, B., & Russell, J.A. (1984). Concept of emotion viewed from a prototype perspective. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 113, 464-486. [pdf]
1980:
Russell, J.A. (1980). A cirumplex model of affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 1161-1178. [pdf]
1977:
Russell, J.A., & Mehrabian, A. (1977). Evidence for a three-factor theory of emotions. Journal of Research in Personality, 11, 273-294. [pdf]
1973:
Mehrabian, A., & Russell, J. A. (1973). A measure of arousal seeking tendency. Environment and Behavior. [pdf]
"Is the nose scrunch a universal facial expression of disgust?" from International Society for Research on Emotion, St. Louis, Missouri, July 2017
"Animal reminders lead to lessened disgust," from Society for Social and Personality Psychology, San Antonio, Texas, March 2017
"Shame: A cluster concept," from The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Louisville, KY, March 2016
"Cultural differences in animal reminder disgust," from The Society for Affective Science, Chicago, IL, March 2016
"Disgust elicitors do not universally elicit disgust," from the International Convention of Psychological Science, Amsterdam, March 2015
"Disgust has no close translation equivalence in Malayalam and Hindi" from the Society for Social and Personality Psychology, Long Beach, California, February 2015
“Language, Emotion, and Facial Expression,” from The Emotional Brain Conference, May 2011
Media Coverage About Our Work
An interview with James Russell on facial expressions and emotion for University Loyola Andalusia, January 2017
Publications About Our Work
Jarrett, C. (2016). Psychologists said it's disgusting to be reminded that you are an animal. It seems they were wrong. Research Digest. [article]
Zachar, P., & Ellis, R., Eds. (2012). Categorical versus dimensional models of affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Our Publications
2017:
Crivelli, C., Russell, J. A., Jarillo, S., & Fernández-Dols, J. M. (2017). Recognizing spontaneous facial expressions of emotion in a small-scale society of Papua New Guinea. Emotion, 17(2), 337. [pdf]
DiGirolamo, M. A., & Russell, J. A. (2017). The emotion seen in a face can be a methodological artifact: The process of elimination hypothesis. Emotion, 17(3), 538. [pdf]
Ershadi, M., Goldstein, T. R., Pochedly, J., & Russell, J. A. (2017). Facial expressions as performances in mime. Cognition and Emotion, 1-10. [pdf]
Ershadi, M., Russell, J. A., & Herz, R. S. (2017). The (Non)-Effect of Induced Emotion on Desire for Different Types of Foods. Food Quality and Preference. [pdf]
Kollareth, D. & Russell, J.A. (2017). On the emotions associated with violations of three moral codes (community, autonomy, divinity). Motivation and Emotion. [pdf]
Kollareth, D. & Russell, J.A. (2017). The English word disgust has no exact translation in Hindi or Malayalam. Cognition and emotion, 31(6), 1169-1180. [pdf]
Kuppens, P., Tuerlinckx, F., Yik, M., Koval, P., Coosemans, J., Zeng, K. J., & Russell, J. A. (2017). The relation between valence and arousal in subjective experience varies with personality and culture. Journal of personality, 85(4), 530-542. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2017). Emotion recognition: Is it universal?. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2017). Impressive new theory and theorist. Psychological Inquiry, 28(1), 50-51. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2017). Mixed emotions viewed from the psychological constructionist perspective. Emotion Review, 9(2), 111-117. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Dols, J. M. F. (Eds.). (2017). The Science of Facial Expression. Oxford University Press.
RUSSELL, J. A. (2017). Toward a Broader Perspective on Facial Expressions. The Science of Facial Expression, 93. [pdf]
2016:
Kollareth, D. & Russell, J.A. (2016). Is it disgusting to be reminded that you are an animal? Cognition and Emotion. [pdf]
2015:
Barrett, L. F., & Russell, J. A., Eds. (2015). The psychological construction of emotion. New York: Guilford Press.
Han, D. Kollareth, D., & Russell, J.A. (2015). The words for disgust in English, Korean, and Malayam questions its homogeneity. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 35(5), 569-588. [pdf]
Kayyal, M. H., Pochedly, J., McCarthy, A., & Russell, J. A. (2015). On the limits of the relation of disgust to judgments of immorality. Frontiers in psychology, 6, #951. [pdf]
Kayyal, M.H., Widen, S.C., & Russell, J. A. (2015). Context is more powerful than we think: Contextual cues override facial cues even on valence. Emotion, 15, 287-291. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2015). My psychological constructionist perspective. In L. F. Barrett & J.A. Russell (Eds.) The psychological construction of emotion. Pp. 183-208. New York: Guilford Press.
Russell, J. A. (2015). The greater constructionist project for emotion. In L. F. Barrett & J.A. Russell (Eds.) The psychological construction of emotion. Pp. 429-447. New York: Guilford Press.
Widen, S. C., Pochedly, J. T., & Russell, J. A. (2015). The development of emotion concepts: A story superiority effect in older children and adolescents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 131, 186-192. [pdf]
2014:
Tseng, A., Bansal, R., Liu, J., Gerber, A., Goh, S., Posner, J., Colibazzi, T., Chiang, I-C., Russell, J. A., & Peterson, B., (2014). Using the circumplex model of affect to study valence and arousal ratings of emotional faces by children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44, 1332-1346.
Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2014). Dynamic Facial Expressions Allow Differentiation of Displays Intended to Convey Positive and Hubristic Pride. Emotion, 14(5), 857-864. [pdf]
2013:
Kayyal, M. H., & Widen, S. C. (2013). Monsters and Growling Dogs: A Dual-Source Theory of the Child's Concept of Fear. Psychological Topics, 22(2), 367-382. [pdf]
Trauffer, N. M., Widen, S. C., & Russell, J. A. (2013). Education and the Attribution of Emotion to Facial Expressions. Psychological Topics, 22(2), 237-247. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. (2013). Children’s interpretation of facial expressions: The long path from valence-based to specific discrete categories. Emotion Review. [pdf]
Widen, S. C., Pochedly, J. T., Pieloch, K., & Russell, J. A. (2013). Introducing the sick face. Motivation and Emotion, 37(3), 550-557. [pdf]
Widen, S. C., & Russell, J. A. (2013). Children's recognition of disgust in others. Psychological Bulletin, 139(2), 271-299. [pdf]
Yik, M., Widen, S. C., & Russell, J. A. (2013). The within-subjects design in the study of facial expressions. Cognition & Emotion, 27(6), 1062-1072. [pdf]
2012:
Kuppens, P., Tuerlinckx, F., Russell, J. A., & Barrett, L. F. (2012). The relation between valence and arousal in subjective experience. Psychological Bulletin, 139(4), 917-940. [pdf]
Pochedly, J. T., Widen, S. C., & Russell, J. A. (2012). What emotion does the “facial expression of disgust” express?. Emotion, 12(6), 1315. [pdf]
Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2012). Children’s understanding of nonverbal expressions of pride. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 379-385. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2012). Final remarks. In P. Zachar & R. Ellis (Eds.), Categorical versus dimensional models of affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Russell, J. A. (2012). From a psychological constructionist perspective. In P. Zachar & R. Ellis (Eds.), Categorical versus dimensional models of affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Russell, J. A. (2012). Preliminary comments on Panksepp. In P. Zachar & R. Ellis (Eds.), Categorical versus dimensional models of affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Russell, J. A., Rosenberg, E. L., & Lewis, M. D. (2012). Introduction to a special section on basic emotion theory. Emotion Review, 3, 363. [pdf]
2011:
Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2011). Preschoolers’ use of dynamic facial, bodily, and vocal cues to emotion. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 110, 52-61. [pdf]
Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2011). Putting motion in emotion: Do dynamic presentations increase preschooler's recognition of emotion? Cognitive Development, 26, 248-259. [pdf]
Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2011). When dynamic, the head and face alone can express pride. Emotion, 11, 990-993. [pdf]
Widen, S. C., Christy, A. M., Hewett, K., & Russell, J. A. (2011). Do proposed facial expressions of contempt, shame, embarrassment, and sympathy communicate the predicted emotion? Cognition and Emotion, 25, 898-906. [pdf]
Widen, S. C., & Naab, P. (2011). Can an anger face also be scared? Malleability of facial expressions. Emotion. Advanced online publication. [pdf]
Widen, S. C., & Russell, J. A. (2011). In building a script for an emotion, do preschoolers add its cause before its behavior consequence? Social Development, 20, 471-485. [pdf]
Yik, M., Russell, J. A., & Steiger, J. H. (2011). A 12-point circumplex structure of core affect. Emotion, 11, 705-731. [pdf]
2010:
Colibazzi, T., Posner, J., Wang, Z., Gorman, D., Gerber, A., Yu, Zhu, H., Kangarlu, A., Duan, Y., Russell, J. A., & Peterson, B. S. (2010). Neural systems subserving valence and arousal during the experience of induced emotions. Emotion, 10, 377-389. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2010). Children's scripts for social emotions: Causes and consequences are more central than are facial expressions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28, 565-581. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2010). Descriptive and prescriptive definitions of emotion. Emotion Review, 2, 377-378. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2010). Differentiation in preschoolers' categories for emotion. Emotion, 10, 651-661. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2010). The "disgust face" conveys anger to children. Emotion, 10, 455-466. [pdf]
2009:
Posner, J., Russell, J. A., Gerber, A., Gorman, D., Colibazzi, T., Yu, S., Wang, Z., Kangarlu, A., Zhu, H., Peterson, B. S. (2009). The neurophysiological bases of emotion: An fMRI study of the affective circumplex using emotion-denoting words. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 883-895. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2009). Emotion, Core Affect, and Psychological Construction. Cognition & Emotion, 23, 1259-1283. [pdf]
2008:
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2008). Children acquire emotion categories gradually. Cognitive Development, 23, 291-312. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2008). Children’s and adults’ understanding of the “disgust face.” Cognition and Emotion, 22, 1513-1541. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2008). Young children's understanding of other's emotions. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (pp. 348-363). New York, NY: Guilford.
2007:
Naab, P.J & Russell, J.A. (2007). Judgments of emotion from spontaneous facial expressions of New Guineans. Emotion, 7, 736-744. [pdf]
2006:
Barchard, K.A., & Russell, J.A. (2006). Bias in consensus scoring, with examples from ability emotional intelligence tests. Psicotherma, 18, 49-54. [pdf]
Fridlund, A. J., & Russell, J. A. (2006). The functions of facial expressions: What’s in a face. The Sage handbook of nonverbal communication, 299-319. [pdf]
Lindquist, K. A., Barrett, L.F., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Russell, J.A. (2006). Language and the perception of emotion. American Psychological Association, 6, 125-138. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (2006). Emotions are not modules. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary 32, 53-72. [pdf]
2005:
Russell, J.A. (2005). Emotion in human consciousness is built on core affect. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 12, 26-42. [pdf]
2004:
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2004). The relative power of an emotion's facial expression, label, and behavioral consequence to evoke preschoolers' knowledge of its cause. Cognitive Development, 19, 111-125. [pdf]
2003:
Russell, J. A. (2003). Core affect and the psychological construction of emotion. Psychological Review, 110, 145-172. [pdf]
Russell, J.A., Bachorowski, J., & Fernandez-Dols, J.M. (2003). Facial and vocal expressions of emotion. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 329-349. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2003). A closer look at preschoolers' freely produced labels for facial expressions. Developmental Psychology, 39, 114-128. [pdf]
2002:
Russell, J. A. & Widen, S. C. (2002). A label superiority effect in children's categorization of facial expressions. Social Development, 11, 30-52. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Widen, S. C. (2002). Words versus faces in evoking preschool children's knowledge of the causes of emotions. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 26, 97-103. [pdf]
Widen, S. C. & Russell, J. A. (2002). Gender and preschoolers' perception of emotion. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 48, 248-262. [pdf]
2001:
Yik, M. S. M., & Russell, J. A. (2001). Predicting the Big Two of affect from the Big Five of personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 35, 247-277. [pdf]
2000:
Russell, J. A., & Lemay, G. (2000). Concepts of emotion. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland (Eds.) Handbook of Emotions, 2nd edition. New York: Guilford.
1999:
Carroll, J. M., Yik, M., Russell, J. A., & Barrett, L. F. (1999). On the psychometric principles of affect. Review of General Psychology, 3, 14-22. [pdf]
Russell, J.A., & Barrett, L. F. (1999). Core affect, prototypical emotional episodes, and other things called emotion: Dissecting the elephant. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 805-819. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Carroll, J. M. (1999b). On the bipolarity of positive and negative affect. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 3-30. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Carroll, J. A. (1999a). The phoenix of bipolarity: A reply to Watson and Tellegen. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 611-617. [pdf]
1998:
Russell, J. A. (1989). Culture, scripts, and children's understanding of emotion. In C. Saarni & P. L. Harris (Eds.), Children's understanding of emotions. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press.
Yik, M. S. M., Meng, Z., & Russell, J. A. (1998). Adults' freely produced emotion labels for babies' spontaneous facial expressions. Cognition and Emotion,12, 723-730. [pdf]
1997:
Carroll, J. M., & Russell, J. A. (1997). Facial expressions in Hollywood's portrayal of emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 164-176. [pdf]
Russell, J. A. (1997). How shall an emotion be called? In R. Plutchik and H. Conte (Eds.). Circumplex models of personality and emotion (pp 205-220). Washington, D.C.: APA Press.
Russell, J. A., & Fernandez-Dols, J. M. (1997). What does a facial expression mean? In J. A. Russell & J. M. Fernandez-Dols (Eds.), The psychology of facial expression: Studies in emotion and social interaction, 2nd series (pp. 3-30). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]
1996:
Carroll, J.M., & Russell, J.A. (1996). Do facial expressions express specific emotions? Judging emotion from the face in context. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 205-218. [pdf]
1995:
Russell, J.A. (1995). Facial expressions of emotion: What lies beyond minimal universality? Psychological Bulletin, 118, 379-391. [pdf]
1994:
Russell, J. A. (1994). Is there universal recognition of emotion from facial expression?: A review of the cross-cultural studies. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 102-141. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Fehr, B. (1994). Fuzzy concepts in a fuzzy hierarchy: Varieties of anger. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 186-205. [pdf]
1993:
Russell, J. A. (1993). Forced-choice response format in the study of facial expression. Motivation and Emotion, 17, 41-51. [pdf]
Russell, J.A., & Suzuki, N., & Ishida, N. (1993). Canadian, Greek, and Japanese Freely Produced Emotion Labels for Facial Expressions. Motivation and Emotion, 17, 337-351. [pdf]
1991:
Russell, J. A. (1991). Culture and the categorization of emotion. Psychological Bulletin, 110, 426-450. [pdf]
Russell, J.A. (1991). In defense of a prototype approach to emotion concepts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 37-47. [pdf]
1990:
Russell, J. A. (1990). Measures of emotion. In R. Plutchik & H. Kellerman (Eds.), Emotion: Theory, research, and experience, Vol. 4 (pp. 83-111). New York, NY: Academic Press.
Russell, J. A. (1990). The preschooler's understanding of the causes and consequences of emotion. Child Development, 61, 1872-1881. [pdf]
1989:
Russell, J.A., Weiss, A., & Mendelsohn, G.A. (1989). Affect Grid: A Single-Item Scale of Pleasure and Arousal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 3, 493-502. [pdf]
1986:
Bullock, M., & Russell, J. A. (1986). Concepts of emotion in developmental psychology. In C. E. Izard & P. B. Read (Eds.), Measuring emotions in infants and children, Vol. II (pp. 203-237). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Bullock, M. (1986). Fuzzy concepts and the perception of emotion in facial expressions. Social Cognition, 4, 309-341. [pdf]
Russell, J. A., & Bullock, M. (1986). On the dimensions preschoolers use to interpret facial expressions of emotion. Developmental Psychology, 22, 97-102. [pdf]
Woudzia, L., & Russell, J.A. (1986). Affective judgments, common sense, and Zajonc's thesis of independence. Motivation and Emotion, 10, 168-183. [pdf]
1984:
Fehr, B., & Russell, J.A. (1984). Concept of emotion viewed from a prototype perspective. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 113, 464-486. [pdf]
1980:
Russell, J.A. (1980). A cirumplex model of affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 1161-1178. [pdf]
1977:
Russell, J.A., & Mehrabian, A. (1977). Evidence for a three-factor theory of emotions. Journal of Research in Personality, 11, 273-294. [pdf]
1973:
Mehrabian, A., & Russell, J. A. (1973). A measure of arousal seeking tendency. Environment and Behavior. [pdf]