• DOI:10.1080/09515080903153634
Corpus ID: 11540619

Do discrete emotions exist?

@article{Barrett2009DoDE,
  title={Do discrete emotions exist?},
  author={L. Barrett and M. Gendron and Yang-Ming Huang},
  journal={Philosophical Psychology},
  year={2009},
  volume={22},
  pages={427 - 437}
}

L. Barrett, M. Gendron, Yang-Ming Huang

Published 2009

Psychology

Philosophical Psychology

In various guises (usually referred to as the “basic emotion” or “discrete emotion” approach), scientists and philosophers have long argued that certain categories of emotion are natural kinds. In a recent paper, Colombetti (2009) proposed yet another natural kind account, and in so doing, characterized and critiqued psychological constructionist approaches to emotion, including our own Conceptual Act Model. In this commentary, we briefly address three topics raised by Columbetti. First, we… CONTINUE READING

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