a Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, KU Leuven - University of Leuven , Leuven , Belgium.
b Centre for Social and Cultural Psychology, KU Leuven - University of Leuven , Leuven , Belgium.
Cogn Emot. 2019 Feb;33(1):94-100. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1510381. Epub 2018 Aug 13.
The paper sketches the historical development from emotion as a mysterious entity and the source of maladaptive behaviour, to emotion as a collection of ingredients and the source of also adaptive behaviour. We argue, however, that the underlying mechanism proposed to take care of this adaptive behaviour is not entirely up for its task. We outline an alternative view that explains so-called emotional behaviour with the same mechanism as non-emotional behaviour, but that is at the same time more likely to produce adaptive behaviour. The phenomena that were initially seen as requiring a separate emotional mechanism to influence and cause behaviour can also be explained by a goal-directed mechanism provided that more goals and other complexities inherent in the goal-directed process are taken into account.
本文勾勒了从情感作为一种神秘实体和适应不良行为的根源，到情感作为一系列成分和适应行为的根源的历史发展。然而，我们认为，提出的用于处理这种适应性行为的潜在机制并没有完全胜任其任务。我们概述了一种替代观点，该观点用与非情感行为相同的机制来解释所谓的情感行为，但同时更有可能产生适应性行为。最初被认为需要单独的情感机制来影响和引起行为的现象，也可以通过目标导向机制来解释，前提是考虑到目标导向过程中固有的更多目标和其他复杂性。
