Department of Psychology

Bodily expressions of emotion: Visual cues and neural mechanisms (2013)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, A. (2013). Bodily expressions of emotion: Visual cues and neural mechanisms. In J. Armony, & P. Vuilleumier (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience (198-222). Cambridge University Press

Are people special? A brain’s eye view. (2010)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, A., Heberlein, A., & Adolphs, R. (2010). Are people special? A brain’s eye view. In R. Adams Jr., N. Ambady, K. Nakayama, & S. Shimojo (Eds.), The science of social vision (363-392). Oxford University Press

Introduction: In this chapter our focus will be on people as visual stimuli, that is, objects that have a certain appearance and that move in a certain way, and whose said visual properties we can use as the basis for attributing the states and trait... Read More about Are people special? A brain’s eye view..

The perception of bodily expressions of emotion and the implications for computing. (2008)
Book Chapter
Dittrich, W., & Atkinson, A. (2008). The perception of bodily expressions of emotion and the implications for computing. In J. (. Or (Ed.), Affective Computing: Focus on Emotion Expression, Synthesis and Recognition (pp.157-184). I-Tech Education and Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5772/6181

Face processing and empathy (2007)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, A. (2007). Face processing and empathy. In T. Farrow, & P. Woodruff (Eds.) (Eds.), Empathy in mental illness (pp. 360-385). Cambridge University Press

From the Introduction: The central issue to be explored in this chapter is the relation between perceiving an emotion in another and the triggering or re-creation of one or more aspects of that emotional state in oneself. This is what I shall sometim... Read More about Face processing and empathy.

Visual emotion perception: Mechanisms and processes (2005)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, A., & Adolphs, A. (2005). Visual emotion perception: Mechanisms and processes. In L. Barrett, P. Niedenthal, & P. Winkielman (Eds.) (Eds.), Emotion and consciousness (pp. 150-182). Guilford Press

From the Introduction: Perceiving and interpreting other people’s emotional states is essential for effective social interaction. Its very importance is likely to have resulted in the evolution of complex mechanisms that underlie it. A basic capacity... Read More about Visual emotion perception: Mechanisms and processes.

Evolutionary psychology's grain problem and the cognitive neuroscience of reasoning (2003)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, A., & Wheeler, M. (2003). Evolutionary psychology's grain problem and the cognitive neuroscience of reasoning. In D. E. Over (Ed.), Evolution and the psychology of thinking : the debate (61-99). Psychology Press

Domains, brains, and evolution (2001)
Book Chapter
Wheeler, M., & Atkinson, A. (2001). Domains, brains, and evolution. In D. Walsh (Ed.), Naturalism, evolution and mind (239-266). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511563843.012

Our aim in this paper is to do some conceptual spring-cleaning. Several prominent evolutionary psychologists have argued that the human cognitive architecture consists in a large number of domain-specific features, rather than, as dissenters claim, a... Read More about Domains, brains, and evolution.

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