{"product_id":"the-affect-lab-grant-bollmer-9781517915452","title":"The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have used technological forms of media to measure and analyze emotion. In \u003ci\u003eThe Affect Lab\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bollmer shows that the psychological definitions of emotion have long been directly shaped by the physical qualities of the devices used in laboratory research. To investigate these devices, \u003ci\u003eThe Affect Lab\u003c\/i\u003e examines four technologies related to the history of psychology in North America: spiritualist toys at Harvard University, serial photography in early American psychological laboratories, experiments on \"psychopaths\" performed with an instrument called an Offner Dynograph, and the development of the \"electropsychometer,\" or \"E-Meter,\" by Volney Mathison and L. Ron Hubbard. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Challenging the large body of humanities research surrounding affect theory, \u003ci\u003eThe Affect Lab\u003c\/i\u003e identifies an understudied problem in formulations of affect: how affect is a construction inseparable from the techniques and devices used to identify and measure it. Ultimately, Bollmer offers a new critique of affect and affect theory, demonstrating how deferrals to psychology and neuroscience in contemporary theory and philosophy neglect the material of experimental, scientific research. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Grant Bollmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517915457\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517915452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2024","brand":"Grant Bollmer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46465826390271,"sku":"9781517915452","price":112.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_783c97ad-57c1-408e-a2e7-a4163177d754.jpg?v=1736347396","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-affect-lab-grant-bollmer-9781517915452","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}