Monday, April 14, 2008

ARTICLE UDPATE - Basic tastes and basic emotions: Basic problems and perspectives for a nonbasic solution.

Sander D.

Behavioural Brain Research, 31, 88.

Contemporary behavioral and brain scientists consider the existence of so-called basic emotions in a similar way to the one described by Erickson for so-called basic tastes. Commenting on this analogy, I argue that similar basic problems are encountered in both perspectives, and I suggest a potential nonbasic solution that is tested in emotion research (i.e., the appraisal model of emotion).

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