The Tomkins Institute is excited to offer the next virtual gathering for our members on Saturday, March 15 from 4 - 5:30 pm Eastern Standard Time.  

Since Tomkins introduced his groundbreaking theory of affects in 1962, an enormous amount of research and theorizing about affect and emotion has taken place. And even though Tomkins is widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the field, today Tomkins' theory is rarely cited and often mischaracterized. In this community gathering of the Tomkins Institute, we will be joined by Maria McManus, a board member and emotion researcher, who will present an overview of today's prominent theories of affect and emotion and discuss how they relate (or not) to Tomkins' theories.

Maria will share an account of how emotion researchers are thinking about emotion today, an account that will likely be both heartbreaking and heartwarming to the Tomkins community. In stitching together these strands…