Griffiths, Paul E (2002) Appraisal and Machiavellian Emotion. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Emotional appraisal happens at more than one level. Low-level appraisals involve representations that are semantically coarse-grained, fuse the functional roles of belief and desire and have impoverished inferential roles, making it best to think of them as sub-conceptual. Multi-level theories of emotional appraisal are thus best conceived, not as theories of the actual conceptual content of emotional appraisals, but as ecological theories that identify the aspects of the environment that appraisal processes are tracking using diverse cognitive means. These aspects of the environment are what the environment affords the organism. Some of these affordances are goal-affordances - possibilities for future action. This perspective on emotional appraisal lends support to the idea that emotional appraisal is in part Machiavellian or strategic. Organisms take into account the payoffs resulting from an emotional response when determining whether the eliciting situation warrants that emotion.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Griffiths, Paul E
Keywords:	emotion appraisal evolutionary psychology ecological perception affordances
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science
Depositing User:	Professor Paul Edmund Griffiths
Date Deposited:	27 Jun 2002
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2015 15:11
Item ID:	667
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science
Date:	June 2002
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/667

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