The Cognitive-Motivational Compound of Emotional Experience  

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Castelfranchi, Cristiano ; Miceli, Maria

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Emotion Review vol. 1 no. 3 (Jul. 2009), page 223–231.
Topik: belief; cognitive compound; desire; emotional gestalt
Fulltext: 223.pdf (218.82KB)

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We present an analysis of emotional experience in terms of beliefs and desires viewed as its minimal cognitive constituents. We argue that families of emotions can be identified because their members share some of these constituents. To document this claim, we analyze one family of emotions—which includes the feeling of inferiority, admiration, envy, and jealousy—trying to show that the distinctiveness of each emotion is due to the specific compound of beliefs and desires it implies, whereas the kinship among related emotions is due to their sharing of cognitive or motivational components. Finally, we address the gestalt problem, that is, the question of how it is possible that emotions, although consisting of several “atomic” elements, are felt as unitary experiences.

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