The Affect Lab

Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it   Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have used technological forms of media to measure and analyze emotion. In The Affect Lab , Grant Bollmer examines the use of measurement tools such as electrical shocks, photography, video, and the electroencephalograph to argue that research on emotions has confused the physiology of emotion with the tools that define its inscription.    Bollm