• DOI:10.1207/s15327957pspr1001_2
Corpus ID: 7750265

Solving the Emotion Paradox: Categorization and the Experience of Emotion

@article{Barrett2006SolvingTE,
  title={Solving the Emotion Paradox: Categorization and the Experience of Emotion},
  author={L. Barrett},
  journal={Personality and Social Psychology Review},
  year={2006},
  volume={10},
  pages={20 - 46}
}

L. Barrett

Published 2006

Psychology, Medicine

Personality and Social Psychology Review

In this article, I introduce an emotion paradox: People believe that they know an emotion when they see it, and as a consequence assume that emotions are discrete events that can be recognized with some degree of accuracy, but scientists have yet to produce a set of clear and consistent criteria for indicating when an emotion is present and when it is not. I propose one solution to this paradox: People experience an emotion when they conceptualize an instance of affective feeling. In this view… CONTINUE READING

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