Emotions in Early Sartre: The Primacy of Frustration

Elpidorou, Andreas

doi:10.1111/misp.12075

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“…More precisely, in the experience of frustration, hope for the problem’s solvability fades. However, really frustrating experiences, which are characterized by manifold emotional reactions and their expressions identified in the phenomenology of feelings, even if they are folk-psychologically unsuspected, such as joy (see Elpidorou, 2017), can rarely be encountered in the laboratory. This seems partly because these experiences and reactions are not investigated, due to the predominance of intellectualist theory in psychology, and partly because the laboratory setup restricts the natural sparking of such experiences.…”

Section: Empirical Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is There a Problem in the Laboratory?

Wendt

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Problem-solving research in the field of psychology has been closely linked to laboratory investigations throughout its development. However, there is a questionable conceptual assumption underlying this commitment to the laboratory, namely the assumption that one can reduce all problem-solving behavior to a cognitive mechanism. Upon validating this assumption from a phenomenological standpoint, doubts about its foundations emerge. For when we consider the experiential conditions that characterize a problematic situation, we come to determine several phenomenal aspects that are not taken into account in this approach. A phenomenologically revised notion of the problem therefore demands a modification of the scope of the empirical research. First, this paper investigates the configuration of the laboratory as an arena of experience based on Lewin’s field theory. This investigation indicates instructions as a key component of the laboratory. Second, a phenomenological description proposes a novel understanding of the problem. In this part it is shown that it is wrong to presume that problematic situations can be evoked arbitrarily by instructions. Finally, further contemplations help outlining the empirical requirements for exhaustive research. They call for novel paradigms in empirical psychology, such as live streaming, which are more faithful to the phenomenology of problems.

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Section: Empirical Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%