Explaining Emotions

Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg

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“…The problem with the view that emotions involve an evaluative judgment is that one would have to attribute contradictory judgments to the person who experiences the emotion. For instance, we would have to say that she judges that the object of our fear is fearsome, while also judging that it is not (see Rorty 1978, Greenspan 1988, Deigh 1994, D'Arms and Jacobson…”

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Rethinking Cognitive Mediation: Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy and the Perceptual Theory of Emotion

Maxwell¹,

Tappolet²

2012

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Empirical assessments and theoretical considerations raise questions about cognitive behavioral therapy’s fundamental theoretical tenet that psychological disturbances are mediated by consciously accessible cognitive structures. This paper considers this situation in light of emotion theory in philosophy. We argue that the “perceptual theory” of emotions, which underlines the parallels between emotions and sensory perceptions, suggests a conception of cognitive mediation that can accommodate the observed empirical anomalies and one that is consistent with the dual processing models dominant in cognitive psychology.

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Rethinking Cognitive Mediation: Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy and the Perceptual Theory of Emotion

Maxwell¹,

Tappolet²

2012

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“…Landman (1993) suggests that responsibility may distinguish different states of regret but is not a defining feature of it, a view reflected in many philosophical attempts to draw distinctions between simple regret, agent-regret, guilt, and remorse (Baron, 1988;Rorty, 1980;Thalberg, 1963;Williams, 1976). A rather extreme (and potentially regrettable) position is taken by Zeelenberg and Pieters (2007), who consider responsibility to be a precondition of regret and have declared this unambiguously: "No choice, no regret" (p. 15).…”

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Regret as autobiographical memory

Davison

Feeney

2008

Cognitive Psychology

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“…Where cultural variation might be expected to play a larger role is in the stimulus or cause of an emotion, which is evaluated cognitively. Over the past thirty years or so, investigators in several disciplines have increasingly recognized that emotions typically involve a substantial cognitive and evaluative component (see Averill 1980;Frank, 1988;Harré, 1986;Oatley, 1992;Rorty, 1980;Solomon, 1993;on appraisal, Forgas, 2000;Frijda, 1993;Frijda, Manstead, & Bem, 2000;Scherer, Schorr, & Johnstone, 2001). The traditional opposition between reason and emotion is no longer the reigning paradigm in science or philosophy.…”

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The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Konstan

2005

PSYCHOLOGIA -An International Journal of Psychological Sciences

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This paper presents a survey of the emotions of the ancient Greeks, as defined and illustrated by Aristotle, and offers a systematic comparison with emotions as conceived today. The object is to exhibit the differences between the ancient and modern classifications, and to indicate some areas where the classical interpretation can shed light on contemporary issues in the psychology of the emotions.Key words: emotion, Greece, comparative psychology, social constructionismThat there are broad similarities in the range and nature of emotions across cultures is clear enough; equally certain is the fact that particular terms for emotions in one culture do not necessarily map exactly onto those in another. What is more, the differences may be systematic, in the sense that, taken together, both the inventory of basic emotion terms in a culture, and the specific character of the several emotions included, may reveal a coherent structure of feeling that differs in determinate ways from that of other cultures (for cross-cultural approaches to the emotions, see Abu-Lughod, 1999;Casimire & Schnegg, 2003;Lutz, 1988). Finally, the entire system may be seen to bear a relationship to values and beliefs within the culture at large, which is in turn distinctive in respect to that of other societies. THEORETICAL CONTEXTThere is, of course, a school of thought that holds that emotions are universal, in which case cross-cultural comparisons are otiose. Charles Darwin's last book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872; rev. ed. 1998), related the emotional life of human beings to that of the more primitive species from which mankind had evolved. Darwin supposed that certain expressive features in humans are as innate and universal as snarling is to dogs. So too, the human smile and other expressive behaviors were treated by Darwin as invariants over different populations and cultures: "With all the races of man the expression of good spirits appears to be the same, and is easily recognized" (Darwin, 1998, p. 211). Darwin confirmed his hypotheses by examining descriptions of human responses drawn from different cultures, particularly those that he and his contemporaries regarded as primitive.

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Explaining Emotions

Cited by 74 publications

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Rethinking Cognitive Mediation: Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy and the Perceptual Theory of Emotion

Rethinking Cognitive Mediation: Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy and the Perceptual Theory of Emotion

Regret as autobiographical memory

The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

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