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On Art, Science, Metaphors, and Ghosts: A Few Thoughts to Share

Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, averill{at}psych.umass.edu

The sharing of emotional experiences, whether in face-to-face interactions or anonymously through written communications, can influence a person's psychological and physical well-being. The mediating mechanisms are, however, poorly understood. The present comment concerns ambiguities that may result when concepts from ordinary language, such as emotion, cognition, and related metaphors, are applied to presumed mediating mechanisms.

Key Words: cognition • emotion • mediating processes • sharing

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Emotion Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 88-89 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1754073908099129


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