The “placebo” paradox and the emotion paradox
Challenges to psychological explanation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20401759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Hutchinson (0000-0002-6244-1747, Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 617-637 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory & Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-3543 • E-ISSN: 1461-7447 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0959354320928139 |
| OpenAlex | W3033694958 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 61 |
Philosophical debates about how best to explain emotion or placebo are debates about how best to characterise and explain the distinctive form of human responsiveness to the world that is the object of interest for each of those domains of inquiry. In emotion research, the cognitive theory of emotion faces several intractable problems. I discuss two of these: the problem of epistemic deficit and the problem of recalcitrant emotions. Cognitive explanations in Placebo Studies, such as response-expectancy and belief-based explanations, also face the problem of epistemic deficit in addition to the problem of logically self-destructive true belief. While such considerations might motivate a retreat to affect, this brings its own problems. I argue that it is a particular version of cognitivism, representational cognitivism (Rep-Cog), that generates the paradoxes we encounter in emotion and placebo research. I propose that turning to nonrepresentational accounts of cognition will dissolve these paradoxes. As I move toward conclusion, I propose drawing on the ethnomethodological tradition to respecify human responsiveness to loci of significance in the lifeworld by undertaking ethnographies of members’ own situated methods for making intelligible and accountable their attitudinal and nonattitudinal responsiveness to loci of significance in their environment
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Expectancy theory · Lifeworld · Situated · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Empathy and Medical Education · Pain Management and Placebo Effect · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Pride, shame, and guilt
Radicalizing Enactivism
Meaning Medicine and the “Placebo Effect”
Ecological Psychology in Context
What Emotions Really Are
Evolving Enactivism
The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals
Emotions
Knowing Bodies at Work
Ii.—what Is an Emotion ?
Solving the Emotion Paradox
Studies in ethnomethodology
On What We Can See
Socializing Affordances
Response expectancy as a determinant of experience and behavior
From substance to process
And All That
Pavlovian conditioning
Progress on a cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotion
Doing Sensory Ethnography
Seeing as accountable action
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |