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Emotions in the wild: The situated perspective on emotion

Griffiths, Paul Edmund and Scarantino, Andrea (2005) Emotions in the wild: The situated perspective on emotion. [Preprint]

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This chapter describes a perspective on emotion, according to which emotions are: 1. Designed to function in a social context: an emotion is often an act of relationship reconfiguration brought about by delivering a social signal; 2. Forms of skillful engagement with the world which need not be mediated by conceptual thought; 3. Scaffolded by the environment, both synchronically in the unfolding of a particular emotional performance and diachronically, in the acquisition of an emotional repertoire; 4. Dynamically coupled to an environment which both influences and is influenced by the unfolding of the emotion We draw heavily on ‘transactional’ accounts of emotion proposed by some contemporary psychologists. Although these authors do not, to our knowledge, conceive their work as a contribution to the ‘situationist’ literature that is the focus of this volume, we contend that their proposals constitute a fairly exact, affective parallel to situationist ideas about cognition. The primary aim of this chapter is to demonstrate that a situated approach to emotion already exists and is backed by a substantial experimental literature.


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Item Type: Preprint
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Griffiths, Paul Edmund
Scarantino, Andrea
Keywords: emotion transactional psychology situated cognition embodied cognition
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Psychology
Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology
Depositing User: Professor Paul Edmund Griffiths
Date Deposited: 20 Sep 2005
Last Modified: 07 Oct 2010 15:13
Item ID: 2448
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Psychology
Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology
Date: August 2005
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2448

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