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Emotions as Cognitive-Affective-Somatic Hybrids

Psychology Department, Georgetown University, USA, harre{at}georgetown.edu

One way of studying emotions which is sensitive to cultural differences is to analyze the vocabularies people use to describe their own and other’s emotions, which can be called the local emotionology. Wittgenstein’s concepts of language game and family resemblance can be used in this project. The result of research in this mode is a three-factor account of emotions, involving bodily perturbations, judgments of meanings, and the social force of emotion displays. This treatment of a psychological phenomenon is typical of recent conceptions of psychology as a hybrid science, linking cognitive, cultural, and physiological phenomena. It can be seen as a further development of the cognitive account of emotions that has appeared in the last century.

Key Words: emotionology • hybrid psychology • meanings • social force • Wittgenstein

Emotion Review, Vol. 1, No. 4, 294-301 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1754073909338304


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