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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1997. Reviewing the three current models of emotion, Griffiths points out their deficiencies and constructs a basis for future models that pay equal attention to biological fact and conceptual rigor.
Full Description
This study argues that much research of the emotions has been misguided. It attempts to show that "emotion" encompasses psychological states of very different, and thus not comparable, kinds. Some emotions, such a brief flaring up of anger in response to some experience, are evolutionary ancient, reflex-like responses which appear insensitive to culture. Others, like moral guilt, differ importantly across cultures, despite their long history in humans, and affinity to behaviour seen in other species. Yet other emotions appear to be the acting-out of today's psychological myths, as ghost possession acted out the metaphysical myths of past centuries. These three kinds of responses have different evolutionary origins, different adaptive functions, different biological bases, and different roles in human psychology. The concept that binds them together, emotion, plays no useful role, since there is no object of scientific knowledge that corresponds to it. A detailed overview of the relevant theoretical approaches is provided in this text, assessing the relative merits of three main theoretical approaches: affect programme theory, evolutionary psychology, and social constructionism.
Contents
Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Philosophy and Emotion--The Poverty of Conceptual Analysis 3: The Psychoevolutionary Approach to Emotion 4: Affect Programs and Emotion Modules 5: The Higher Cognitive Emotions: Some Research Programs 6: The Social Construction of Emotion 7: Natural Kinds and Theoretical Concepts 8: Natural Kinds in Biology and Psychology 9: What Emotions Really Are 10: Coda - Mood and Emotion References Index
