Pérez-Almonacid Ricardo
Department of Psychology, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
Center of Studies and Research on Knowledge and Human Learning, University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Mexico.
Front Psychol. 2019 Feb 5;10:181. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00181. eCollection 2019.
The present analysis proposes a non-mediational approach to the study of affective phenomena. It starts off with the common recognition that "emotion" is not a technical term. Even so, researchers often treat it as if it were, confusing ordinary language with technical language. This leads to two problems: first, a referentialist bias, according to which we assume emotions to be something unapparent that one must infer and describe; and second, the nominalist fallacy, according to which we assume that emotions have causal effects on actions by the fact of naming them. I review some proposals to solve the problem, among which are some behavioral alternatives. Although these alternatives overcome many of the problems mentioned, they do not completely avoid them. I conclude that a strict non-mediational approach is possible and necessary. It supports the analytical separation of ordinary and technical language. Technical language abstracts relevant properties of ordinary language that become relevant parameters to model certain emotions, as they are referred to in ordinary language. I present some possible parameters and examples for consideration and conclude that the non-mediational approach is a plausible alternative that can stimulate research programs to find natural regularities in affective phenomena.
本分析提出了一种研究情感现象的非中介方法。它始于一个普遍的认识，即“情感”不是一个专业术语。即便如此，研究人员常常将其当作专业术语来对待，从而混淆了日常语言和专业语言。这导致了两个问题：其一，指称主义偏见，即我们认为情感是某种必须推断和描述的不明显的东西；其二，唯名论谬误，即我们认为情感通过命名这一事实对行为产生因果影响。我回顾了一些解决该问题的提议，其中包括一些行为学方面的替代方案。尽管这些替代方案克服了许多上述问题，但它们并未完全避免这些问题。我得出结论，一种严格的非中介方法是可行且必要的。它支持对日常语言和专业语言进行分析性区分。专业语言提取日常语言的相关属性，这些属性成为对某些情感进行建模的相关参数，就如同它们在日常语言中被提及的那样。我给出一些可能的参数和示例供参考，并得出结论，非中介方法是一种合理的替代方案，能够推动研究项目去发现情感现象中的自然规律。
