Can We Model What an Emotion Is? Comment on Suri & Gross (2022) Academic Article

abstract

• The question what is emotion? has long been at the core of theoretical debates. The IAC-E is a useful framework for understanding relationships among responses in emotional situations. However, this approach cannot address the nature of emotion. Researchers determine what counts as emotion in the IAC-E, and this decision impacts the relationships detected and inferences made. The assumptions of researchers about emotion change the output. Further, the model is not theoretically agnostic and is best suited to examine emotion perception/knowledge, as in the simulations presented. According to some theories, experienced emotion is qualitatively different than situations that involve perceiving others' emotion or semantic knowledge. Addressing the nature of emotion requires empirical examination of the assumptions made in each theory.

authors

• Lench, Heather

published proceedings

• EMOTION REVIEW

altmetric score

• 2.2

author list (cited authors)

• Lench, H. C., & Reed, N. T.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Lench, Heather C||Reed, Noah T

publication date

• April 2022

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Emotion Review  Journal

keywords

• Basic Emotion
• Constructionist
• Emotion Theory
• Modeling

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/17540739221089692

start page

• 114

end page

• 116

volume

• 14

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17540739221089692