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Varieties of Emotional Experience: Differences in Object or Computation?

Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, USA, cunningham.417{at}osu.edu

Jay J. Van Bavel

Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, USA

Discovering the taxonomies that best describe emotional experience has been surprisingly challenging. Clore and Huntsinger propose that by exploring the objects of emotion, such as standards or actions, we may better understand differences in emotion that emerge for similarly valenced reactions. We are sympathetic to this idea, although we suggest here that greater attention should be given to the computations that accompany affective processing, such as the discrepancy between different hedonic states, rather than the object per se.

Key Words: social psychology

Emotion Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 56-57 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/17540739090010011302


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