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Attitude–Scenario–Emotion (ASE) sentiments are superficial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2017

Heather Adair  and
Peter Carruthers
Heather Adair
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7615. [email protected]@umd.eduhttp://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/hadairhttp://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/
Peter Carruthers
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7615. [email protected]@umd.eduhttp://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/hadairhttp://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/
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Abstract

Gervais & Fessler's (G&F's) Attitude–Scenario–Emotion (ASE) model reduces sentiments to superficial patterns of emotional responding that emerge when an underlying evaluative attitude interacts with appraisals of a range of specific scenarios. Thus construed, sentiments are epiphenomenal. We argue that G&F would do better to identify each sentiment (love, say) with the attitude that underlies and explains the patterns of emotional responding (in the case of love, this might be the attitude of valuing the good of a specific other).

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e226
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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