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Communications to Self and Others: Emotional Experience and its Skills

Keith Oatley

Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto, Canada, koatley{at}oise.utoronto.ca

According to the Communicative Theory of Emotions, we experience emotions when events occur that are important for our goals and plans. A method of choice for studying these matters is the emotion diary. Emotions configure our cognitive systems and our relationships. Many of our emotions concern our relationships, and empathy is central to our experience of them. We do not always recognize our emotions or the emotions of others, but literary fiction can help improve our skills of recognition and understanding.

Key Words: art • basic emotions • configuration • empathy • goals

Emotion Review, Vol. 1, No. 3, 206-213 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1754073909103588
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