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The Case of the Disappearing Intentional Object: Constraints on a Definition of Emotion
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Deonna, Julien
Scherer, Klaus R.
Published in Emotion Review. 2010, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 44-52
Abstract Taking our lead from Solomon's emphasis on the importance of the intentional object of emotion, we review the history of repeated attempts to make this object disappear. We adduce evidence suggesting that in the case of James and Schachter, the intentional object got lost unintentionally. By contrast, modern constructivists (in particular Barrett) seem quite determined to deny the centrality of the intentional object in accounting for the occurrence of emotions. Griffiths, however, downplays the role objects have in emotion noting that these do not qualify as intentional. We argue that these disappearing acts, deliberate or not, generate fruitless debate and add little to the advancement of our understanding of emotion as an adaptive mechanism to cope with events that are relevant to an organism's life.
Keywords Constructivism — Embodiment — Emotion — Intentionality
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Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie
Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire des sciences affectives
Faculté des lettres / Département de philosophie
Research groups Affective sciences
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(ISO format) 		DEONNA, Julien, SCHERER, Klaus R. The Case of the Disappearing Intentional Object: Constraints on a Definition of Emotion. In: Emotion Review, 2010, vol. 2, n° 1, p. 44-52. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:89053

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