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  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Andrew Ortony is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields, including social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as emotions and moral behavior, face recognition and perception, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, embodied and extended cognition, emotional intelligence and performance, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, and misinformation and its impacts.

Recent publications by Andrew Ortony include:

  • "Are All 'Basic Emotions' Emotions? A Problem for the (Basic) Emotions Construct" (2021) published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "On the Invalidity of Neta and Kim's Argument That Surprise is Always Valenced" (2023) published in Emotion Review
  • "The Challenge of 'Defining' Emotions" (2025) published in Brain Sciences

Other recent papers related to their collaborative network include:

  • "Initial Evidence for the Hypersensitivity Hypothesis: Emotional Intelligence as a Magnifier of Emotional Experience" (2021) published in Journal of Intelligence (co-authored with Marina Fiori)
  • "How People Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic on Twitter: A Comparative Analysis of Emotional Expressions from US and India" (2023) published in arXiv (Cornell University) (co-authored with Brandon Siyuan Loh)

Andrew Ortony has worked with several frequent co-authors, including Gerald L. Clore, Alan Collins, Marina Fiori, James A. Russell, and Brandon Siyuan Loh.

The scientist has also contributed a book titled The Cognitive Structure of Emotions, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022, which has accumulated considerable citations.

Their publications have appeared in venues such as Perspectives on Psychological Science, Journal of Intelligence, Emotion Review, arXiv (Cornell University), and Brain Sciences.

In recognition of their contributions, Andrew Ortony was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1985.

Best Publications

  • The Cognitive Structure of Emotions

    Andrew Ortony;Gerald L. Clore;Allan Collins

  • Metaphor and Thought

    Andrew Ortony

  • The Representation of Knowledge in Memory 1

    David E. Rumelhart;Andrew Ortony

  • What's Basic about Basic Emotions?.

    Andrew Ortony;Terence J. Turner

  • Similarity and analogical reasoning

    Stella Vosniadou;Andrew Ortony

  • Why Metaphors Are Necessary and Not Just Nice

    Andrew Ortony

  • Beyond Literal Similarity

    Andrew Ortony

  • Interpreting metaphors and idioms: Some effects of context on comprehension

    Andrew Ortony;Diane L. Schallert;Ralph E. Reynolds;Stephen J. Antos

  • On putting apples into bottles — A problem of polysemy

    Richard C Anderson;Andrew Ortony

  • The psychological foundations of the affective lexicon.

    Gerald L. Clore;Andrew Ortony;Mark A. Foss

  • The Referential Structure of the Affective Lexicon

    Andrew Ortony;Gerald L. Clore;Mark A. Foss

  • Cognition in emotion: Always, sometimes, or never

    Gerald L. Clore;Andrew Ortony

  • The role of similarity in similes and metaphors

    Andrew Ortony

  • Activity matters: Understanding student interest in school science

    Su Swarat;Andrew Ortony;William Revelle

  • Metaphorical Uses of Language in the Expression of Emotions

    Lynn Fainsilber;Andrew Ortony

  • The complexity of intensity: Issues concerning the structure of emotion intensity

    Nico H. Frijda;Andrew Ortony;Joep Sonnemans;Gerald L. Clore

  • Appraisal theories: How cognition shapes affect into emotion.

    Gerald L. Clore;Andrew Ortony

  • Metaphor: Theoretical and empirical research

    Andrew Ortony;Ralph E. Reynolds;Judith A. Arter

  • Psychological Construction in the OCC Model of Emotion

    Gerald L. Clore;Andrew Ortony

  • Affect and Proto-Affect in Effective Functioning

    Andrew Ortony;Donald A. Norman;William Revelle

  • Similarity and analogical reasoning: a synthesis

    Stella Vosniadou;Andrew Ortony

  • Similarity and Analogical Reasoning

    Stephen K. Reed;Stella Vosniadou;Andrew Ortony

  • The Cognitive Structure of Emotions: References

    Andrew Ortony;Gerald L. Clore;Allan Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald L. Clore
Gerald L. Clore University of Virginia
Stella Vosniadou
Stella Vosniadou Flinders University
William Revelle
William Revelle Northwestern University
Richard C. Anderson
Richard C. Anderson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cristiano Castelfranchi
Cristiano Castelfranchi National Research Council (CNR)
Donald G. MacKay
Donald G. MacKay University of California, Los Angeles
Diane L. Schallert
Diane L. Schallert The University of Texas at Austin
Richard E. Zinbarg
Richard E. Zinbarg Northwestern University
Royce Lee
Royce Lee University of Chicago

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