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A Reply to Commentaries on "How the Object of Affect Guides its Impact"

Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, USA, gclore{at}virginia.edu

Jeffrey R. Huntsinger

Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, USA

Commentaries focused on the emotional appraisal part of our article. Cunningham and Van Bavel argued for distinguishing core disgust from moral disgust, and we describe how the theory might accommodate their proposal. They also suggested that temporal and other comparisons could account for emotional variety. We concur, but see such comparisons as inherent in the different emotional objects. Winkielman emphasized unconscious affect, but we suggest its power flows from the absence of situational constraints on its meaning. He characterized our appraisal model as coldly cognitive rather than embodied, but the complaint is misdirected, as the model addresses emotional structure, not emotional process. Indeed, embodied accounts will still require structural accounts to determine why one emotion rather than another is elicited.

Key Words: affective influence • appraisal • emotional structure • unconscious

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Emotion Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 58-59 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1754073908097188


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