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| Emotions: A. philosophy of mind is usually defined by examples such as joy, fear, anger in order to distinguish it from other internal states. It is controversial whether emotions are triggered solely by external circumstances. See also sensations, perception, mental states, mind states, consciousness, stimuli, introspection, other minds.
B. In psychology, emotion is a complex, subjective experience characterized by physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and a cognitive appraisal. Emotions influence mood, motivate behavior, and play a crucial role in social interactions._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Steven Pinker on Emotions - Dictionary of Arguments
I 457 Emotions/Pinker: Thesis: feelings are adjustments, software modules - with their help copies of the genes should be reproduced, which they have caused. >Mind, >Perception, >Thinking, >Psychology, >Causality, >Nature, >Sensation, >Emotion system. I 499 Feelings/explanation/Trivers: strategies in retaliation game: affection: aimed at those who are apparently ready for a return favor. Anger: protects from being betrayed. Gratitude: calculates costs and benefits of the first act. Compassion: should bring us gratitude. >Compassion. Shame: should maintain a relationship. I 500 Simultaneous evolution of incentive, faking feelings. - It follows the evolution of discernment - Emotions do not help anyone, but they have helped his ancestors. - (s) Separation of situation and feeling. I 510 Emotions/PinkerVsTradition: feelings are no relic of an animal past, no fountain of creativity, not an enemy of the intellect. The intellect transmits control to the emotions, as soon as the situation is such that they can act as a guarantor for its offers, function as promises and threats. >Psychologcial theories on situations. I 522 Cognitive Dissonance/Pinker: one decreases them by inventing a new opinion to resolve an inner contradiction. E.g. so a boring job becomes retroactively interesting. - A feeling of uncertainty stemming from conflicting beliefs. I 523 PinkerVs: that is not true, there is no contradiction between "The work is boring" and "I was forced to lie". Aronson: it is about the contradiction with the statement: "I am nice and have everything under control". >Aronson, Joshua M., >Aronson, Eliot._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Pi I St. Pinker How the Mind Works, New York 1997 German Edition: Wie das Denken im Kopf entsteht München 1998 |
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