Introduction: bridging affective and clinical science / Jonathan Rottenberg and Sheri L. Johnson -- Affect assessment through self-report methods / John Humrichouse [and others] -- Emotional behavior and psychopathology: a survey of methods and concepts / June Gruber and Dacher Keltner -- Methods for studying the psychophysiology of emotion / Craig Santerre and John J.B. Allen -- Methods for studying cognitive aspects of emotion / Edward Wilson and Colin MacLeod -- Emotion and schizophrenia / Jack J. Blanchard, Alex S. Cohen, and Jaymee T. Carreño -- Emotion and bipolar disorder / Sheri L. Johnson, June Gruber, and Lori R. Eisner -- Major depressive disorder: emerging evidence for emotion context insensitivity / Jonathan Rottenberg -- Four principles of fear and their implications for phobias / Arne Öhman and Christian Rück -- Alcohol and emotion: insights and directives from affective science / John J. Curtin and Alan R. Lang -- Affective processes in psychopathy / Christopher J. Patrick -- Emotion-based approaches to the anxiety disorders / Frank J. Farach and Douglas S. Mennin -- Affective science as a framework for understanding the mechanisms and effects of antidepressant medications / Andrew J. Tomarken, Richard C. Shelton, and Steven D. Hollon -- Affective science and psychotherapy: in search of synergy / Timothy J. Strauman, Kari Merrill Eddington, and Megan C. McCrudden -- Afterword: bridges yet to come-future directions for integrating affective and clinical science / Jonathan Rottenberg, Sheri L. Johnson, and James J. Gross.