Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Mixed emotions


A post from the ISPR Presence Community FB page (by Matt Lombard) brings up an interesting question: what is an emotion (human)? How many are there? Is Longing one of them?

It does not appear in the list by Smith:


But it does, in another from Clore, which shows how emotions may be ‘organizing themselves’…:



Clore, G. L., & Schnall, S. (2005). The influence of affect on attitude. In D. Albarracin, B. T. Johnson, & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), The handbook of attitudes (pp. 437-489). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Shaver, P. R., Wu, S., & Schwartz, J. C. (1992). Cross-cultural similarities and differences in emotion and its representation. In M. S. Clark (Ed.), Emotion. Review of personality and social psvchology (pp. 175-212). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Smith, H., & Schneider, A. (2009). Critiquing Models of Emotions. Sociological Methods & Research, 37(4), 560-589.