What are emotional mechanisms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13132004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alessandro Salice (0000-0002-7255-2889, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Mikko Salmela (0000-0002-9988-3274, University of Copenhagen) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-68 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Emotions and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2631-6900 • E-ISSN: 2631-6897 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/263169021x16369909628542 |
| OpenAlex | W4207043243 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 22 |
The article offers an account of emotional mechanisms (EMs). EMs are claimed to be personal, often unconscious, distinctively patterned, mental processes whereby an emotion of a given kind is transmuted into an emotion of a different kind. After preliminary considerations about emotions as felt evaluations, the article identifies three families of emotional mechanisms. These processes are set in motion when a given emotion (for example, envy, shame or anger) generates feelings of inferiority and/or impotence in the subject resulting in a negative sense of self. These feelings prompt an evaluative reappraisal of the emotion’s intentional target. Based on the reappraisal, the subject comes to feel a different kind of emotion, which does not generate feelings of inferiority and/or impotence. Importantly, the second emotion entails a psychological disposition to be collectivised: the subject seeks confirmation of the revised evaluation by sharing the emotion with others. It is argued that these features set EMs apart from other emotion regulatory processes
Affective science · Anger · Cognitive psychology · Disposition · Emotion classification · Emotion work · Feeling · Psychoanalysis · Set (abstract data type · Shame · Subject (documents · Two-factor theory of emotion · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Psychiatry, Mental Health, Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |