Solving the Emotion Paradox: Categorization and the Experience of Emotion Export

@article{Barrett:2006, abstract = {In this article, I introduce an emotion paradox: People believe that they know an emotion when they see it, and as a consequence assume that emotions are discrete events that can be recognized with some degree of accuracy, but scientists have yet to produce a set of clear and consistent criteria for indicating when an emotion is present and when it is not. I propose one solution to this paradox: People experience an emotion when they conceptualize an instance of affective feeling. In this view, the experience of emotion is an act of categorization, guided by embodied knowledge about emotion. The result is a model of emotion experience that has much in common with the social psychological literature on person perception and with literature on embodied conceptual knowledge as it has recently been applied to social psychology. 10.1207/s15327957pspr1001\_2}, address = {Department of Psychology, Boston College, MA 02467, USA. barretli@bc.edu}, author = {Barrett, Lisa F.}, citeulike-article-id = {1218079}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr1001_2}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://psr.sagepub.com/content/10/1/20.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://psr.sagepub.com/content/10/1/20.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://psr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/1/20}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16430327}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16430327}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1207/s15327957pspr1001_2}, issn = {1088-8683}, journal = {Personality and Social Psychology Review}, keywords = {affect, categorization, conceptual, context, emotion, paradox, sense}, month = {February}, number = {1}, pages = {20--46}, posted-at = {2009-10-13 05:46:23}, priority = {0}, title = {Solving the Emotion Paradox: Categorization and the Experience of Emotion}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr1001_2}, volume = {10}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - Barrett:2006 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1218079 N2 - In this article, I introduce an emotion paradox: People believe that they know an emotion when they see it, and as a consequence assume that emotions are discrete events that can be recognized with some degree of accuracy, but scientists have yet to produce a set of clear and consistent criteria for indicating when an emotion is present and when it is not. I propose one solution to this paradox: People experience an emotion when they conceptualize an instance of affective feeling. In this view, the experience of emotion is an act of categorization, guided by embodied knowledge about emotion. The result is a model of emotion experience that has much in common with the social psychological literature on person perception and with literature on embodied conceptual knowledge as it has recently been applied to social psychology. 10.1207/s15327957pspr1001_2 IS - 1 JF - Personality and Social Psychology Review SN - 1088-8683 AD - Department of Psychology, Boston College, MA 02467, USA. barretli@bc.edu EP - 46 TI - Solving the Emotion Paradox: Categorization and the Experience of Emotion VL - 10 SP - 20 KW - affect KW - categorization KW - conceptual KW - context KW - emotion KW - paradox KW - sense AU - Barrett, Lisa PY - 2006/02/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr1001_2 ER -