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  • Chapter 8 - Psychological Constructionist Theories

  • from Part II - Emotion Theories One by One
  • Agnes Moors, KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Book:
    Demystifying Emotions
    Published online:
    11 August 2022
    Print publication:
    11 August 2022, pp 245-266

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses psychological constructionist theories (PCTs). PCTs reject the existence of affect programs as special-purpose mechanisms for the phenomena called emotions. PCTs come in a two-factor version, endorsed by Schachter (1964) and Barrett (2017b), and a multi-factor version, endorsed by Russell (2009). Two-factor PCTs propose that emotions result from the combination of (a) diffuse bodily feelings and (b) a construction process that binds these felt bodily responses to external stimuli and produces a labeled feeling. The multi-factor PCT proposes that the phenomena that people call emotions are composed of many components. The categorization of these components does not result in an emotion per se, but an emotional self-ascription. Two-factor PCTs can deliver discrete emotions. The multi-factor theory does not deliver discrete emotions, but can nevertheless make sense of them. Empirical research that tests two-factor PCTs is discussed.