Emotional Self-Dissonance

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ID21789980
AutoresMatthew Ratcliffe (0000-0003-4519-4833, University of York, autor de correspondencia)
Año2026
Fecha de publicación2026-02-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEmotion Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1754-0739 • E-ISSN: 1754-0747
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17540739261422949
OpenAlexW7129235423
IdiomaEN
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Referencias citadas35

This paper identifies and characterizes a commonplace but philosophically neglected aspect of human emotional experience, which I call emotional self-dissonance . I start from the position that emotional experiences generally involve taking things to matter in ways that reflect what we already care about. Building on this, I suggest that our various projects, pastimes, commitments, relationships, and habits together comprise an evaluative orientation through which we experience things emotionally. Although this orientation is for the most part cohesively organized, tensions within it are inevitable. I suggest that emotions of familiar kinds often incorporate a sense of these tensions. In addition, emotional self-dissonance can amount to a form of emotional experience in its own right, one that encompasses considerable variety

Emotion work · Emotional competence · Emotional contagion · Emotional exhaustion · Emotional intelligence · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory

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