Exploring Human Emotion: From Brain to Behavior Across Disciplines

Dear Colleagues,

Emotions guide human experience, linking perception, cognition, and behavior in complex and dynamic ways. This Special Issue aims to deepen our understanding of human emotion by integrating knowledge from neuroscience, psychology, and clinical research, together with contributions from philosophy, the social sciences, artificial intelligence, and other related disciplines. By connecting neural mechanisms with behavioral and experiential dimensions, we seek to explore how emotions are generated, expressed, and regulated and how they influence decision-making, social interaction, and mental well-being. Particular attention will be devoted to interdisciplinary approaches that bridge laboratory findings with real-world applications, investigating how emotions emerge and are recognized and expressed in individual and collective contexts. The goal of this Special Issue is to encourage dialog among different scientific domains and promote a broader and more integrated understanding of the emotional mind, where neural processes, subjective experience, and social implications intersect.

Dr. Simona Massimino
Prof. Dr. Carmelo M. Vicario
Guest Editors

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