Open-access edition of "The Affect Lab" by Grant Bollmer

FAIN: DR-290448-23

University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN 55455-2009)
Douglas M. Armato (Project Director: July 2022 to January 2025)

An open-access digital edition of "The Affect Lab: Instruments, Aesthetics, Empathy, and Emotion" by Grant Bollmer.

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The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion (Open Access eBook or Collection)
Title: The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion
Year: 2023
ISBN: 9781517915469
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Author: Grant Bollmer
Abstract: The Affect Lab explores the history of psychological research in North America and the manner in which psychologists have used media --through a variety of devices -- to measure and analyze emotion. Examining the deployment of such measurement tools as electrical shocks, photography, video, and the electroencephalograph over the course of the late 19th and 20th centuries, Bollmer argues that the research on emotions has confused the physiology of emotion with the tools that define its inscription. In doing so, he seeks to challenge the large body of humanities research surrounding affect theory, arguing that “affect” is not an innate neurological capacity of the body, but en effect of writing the body through specific modes of inscription.
Primary URL: https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-affect-lab
Primary URL Description: Manifold
Secondary URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jj.1204238
Secondary URL Description: JSTOR
Type: Single author monograph

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