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Consciousness and the varieties of emotion experience: a theoretical framework

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posted on 2023-08-30, 13:24 authored by John A. Lambie, Anthony J. Marcel
This paper proposes an account of the content, form and nature of emotion experience. Data reviewed suggest that previous theories are too narrow in scope and that lack of consensus among them is due to the fact that emotion experience can take various forms. The content of emotion experience, the underlying nonconscious correspondences, and the processes contributing to conscious emotion experience are treated separately. We classify the nature and content of emotion experience and propose that it depends on three aspects of attention: mode (analytic or synthetic; detached or immersed), direction (self or world), and focus (evaluation or action). Our account is informed by a two-level view of consciousness, in which phenomenology (1st-order) is distinguished from awareness (2nd-order). These distinctions enable us to distinguish and account for cases of 'unconscious' emotion where there is an apparent lack of phenomenology or awareness.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

109

Issue number

2

Page range

219-259

Publication title

Psychological Review

ISSN

1939-1471

Publisher

American Psychological Association

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  • Supplemental material

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2010-07-27

Legacy creation date

2019-12-13

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)

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