2022 年 8 巻 1 号 p. 105-117
This article is based on the special lecture presented at the joint meeting of the 40th and the 30th annual conventions of the Japanese Society for Physiological Psychology and Psychophysiology and the Japan Society for Research on Emotions, respectively, held at Kwansei Gakuin University on May 28, 2022. In the first half, recent research trends of psychology of emotion were reviewed based on the handbooks of emotion, edited first by M. Lewis and J. M. Haviland in 1993 and followed by its three revised editions in 2000, 2008, and 2016.The psychology of emotion was recognized as an independent research area during 1980s, which developed rapidly during 1990s and into the interdisciplinary affective science in the 21st century. In the second half, recent research trends of physiological psychology were reviewed based on the handbooks on psychophysiology edited by Cacioppo and his colleagues first in 1990 and later revised in 2000, 2007, and 2017. Physiological psychology, born around 1960, showed dramatic changes especially during 1990s called “the decade of the brain,” and developed into interdisciplinary behavioral neuroscience in the 21st century assisted by the development of new technologies. Among the research areas having shown dramatic growth is the affective neuroscience, which proves the significance of this joint convention.
