Díaz Rodrigo
Centre for Research in Ethics, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Affect Sci. 2022 Apr 6;3(2):438-450. doi: 10.1007/s42761-022-00113-w. eCollection 2022 Jun.
In emotion research, both conceptual analyses and empirical studies commonly rely on emotion reports. But what do people mean when they say that they are angry, afraid, joyful, etc.? Building on extant theories of emotion, this paper presents four new studies (including a preregistered replication) measuring the weight of cognitive evaluations, bodily changes, and action tendencies in people's use of emotion concepts. The results of these studies suggest that the presence or absence of cognitive evaluations has the largest impact on people's emotion attributions, and bodily changes and action tendencies are considered to depend on cognitive evaluations. Implications for theories of emotion (concepts) and the interpretation of emotion reports are discussed.
在情感研究中,概念分析和实证研究通常都依赖于情感报告。但是,当人们说自己生气、害怕、高兴等时,他们是什么意思呢?基于现有的情感理论,本文呈现了四项新研究(包括一项预先注册的重复研究),这些研究测量了认知评估、身体变化和行动倾向在人们使用情感概念中的权重。这些研究结果表明,认知评估的存在与否对人们的情感归因影响最大,而身体变化和行动倾向被认为取决于认知评估。文中还讨论了这些结果对情感(概念)理论和情感报告解读的启示。