Are Emotions Natural Kinds?
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23328879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Feldman Barrett (0000-0003-4478-2051, Boston College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-58 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Psychological Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-6916 • E-ISSN: 1745-6924 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00003.x |
| PMID | 26151184 |
| OpenAlex | W2055894321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 286 |
| References cited | 269 |
Laypeople and scientists alike believe that they know anger, or sadness, or fear, when they see it. These emotions and a few others are presumed to have specific causal mechanisms in the brain and properties that are observable (on the face, in the voice, in the body, or in experience)—that is, they are assumed to be natural kinds. If a given emotion is a natural kind and can be identified objectively, then it is possible to make discoveries about that emotion. Indeed, the scientific study of emotion is founded on this assumption. In this article, I review the accumulating empirical evidence that is inconsistent with the view that there are kinds of emotion with boundaries that are carved in nature. I then consider what moving beyond a natural-kind view might mean for the scientific understanding of emotion.
Affective science · Anger · Cognitive psychology · Emotion classification · Empirical evidence · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept) · Linguistics · Natural (archaeology) · Sadness · Scientific evidence · Two-factor theory of emotion · Action Observation and Synchronization · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Face Recognition and Perception · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 14,3 |
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