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UNSPECIFIED (1992) CONJUNCTION IN THE LANGUAGE OF EMOTIONS. COGNITION & EMOTION, 6 (5). pp. 369-386. ISSN 0269-9931.
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Abstract
Oatley and Johnson-Laird (1987) have proposed a cognitive theory of emotion. According to this theory, there are five basic emotions. A major prediction of the theory is that it should permit satisfactory definitions for all the emotion words in a language, and this was essayed for the English language by Johnson-Laird and Oatley (1989). The theory proposes that only one emotional state can be operative at a time, and therefore words referring to mixed emotions were defined by Johnson-Laird and Oatley as disjunctions of basic emotions. Two experiments are reported which compared these disjunctive definitions with conjunctive definitions (i.e. definitions inconsistent with the theory). For a number of words, conjunctive definitions tended to be preferred. This tendency was increased when the disjunctions and conjunctions were made more explicit. This finding suggests that Oatley and Johnson-Laird's theory should be modified so as to embrace the conjunction of emotion. That is, it should allow that two or more emotions can be experienced in parallel.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | COGNITION & EMOTION | ||||
Publisher: | PSYCHOLOGY PRESS | ||||
ISSN: | 0269-9931 | ||||
Official Date: | September 1992 | ||||
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Volume: | 6 | ||||
Number: | 5 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 18 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 369-386 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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