Emotion and Psychopathology: Bridging Affective and Clinical Science

Two fundamental questions that clinical scientists and practitioners alike must address include when are emotions functional, and when are they dysfunctional? Recent advances in affective science have provided new tools with which to address these age-old questions. The past few decades have witnessed an explosion of research on emotion, accompanied by new theories, such as evolutionary-based analyses of emotion, as well as methods, such as anatomically based systems for coding facial express…