Clore Gerald L, Huntsinger Jeffrey R
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, USA.
Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, USA.
Emot Rev. 2009 Jan;1(1):39-54. doi: 10.1177/1754073908097185.
In this article, we examine how affect influences judgment and thought, but also how thought transforms affect. The general thesis is that the nature and impact of affective reactions depends largely on their objects. We view affect as a representation of value, and its consequences as dependent on its object or what it is about. Within a review of relevant literature and a discussion of the nature of emotion, we focus on the role of the object of affect in governing both the nature of emotional reactions and the impact of affect and emotion on cognition and action. Although emotion is always about the here and now, the capacity for abstract thought means that the human here and now includes imagination as well as perception. Indeed, the hopes and fears that dominate human lives often involve things only imagined.
在本文中,我们探讨情感如何影响判断和思维,同时也探讨思维如何改变情感。总的论点是,情感反应的性质和影响在很大程度上取决于其对象。我们将情感视为价值的一种表征,其后果取决于其对象或其所关乎的事物。在回顾相关文献并讨论情感的本质时,我们重点关注情感对象在决定情感反应的性质以及情感和情绪对认知与行动的影响方面所起的作用。尽管情感总是关乎此时此地,但抽象思维能力意味着人类的此时此地既包括感知,也包括想象。事实上,主导人类生活的希望和恐惧往往涉及的只是想象中的事物。