What are emotional mechanisms?
| dc.contributor.author | Salice, Alessandro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Salmela, Mikko | |
| dc.contributor.funder | Horizon 2020 | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-29T13:49:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-29T13:49:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-01-24 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-03-29T13:39:21Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The article offers an account of emotional mechanisms (EMs). EMs are claimed to be personal, often unconscious, distinctively patterned, mental processes whereby an emotion of a given kind is transmuted into an emotion of a different kind. After preliminary considerations about emotions as felt evaluations, the article identifies three families of emotional mechanisms. These processes are set in motion when a given emotion (for example, envy, shame or anger) generates feelings of inferiority and/or impotence in the subject resulting in a negative sense of self. These feelings prompt an evaluative reappraisal of the emotionâ s intentional target. Based on the reappraisal, the subject comes to feel a different kind of emotion, which does not generate feelings of inferiority and/or impotence. Importantly, the second emotion entails a psychological disposition to be collectivised: the subject seeks confirmation of the revised evaluation by sharing the emotion with others. It is argued that these features set EMs apart from other emotion regulatory processes. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Salice, A. and Salmela, M. (2022) 'What are emotional mechanisms?', Emotions and Society, 4(1), pp. 49-68. doi: 10.1332/263169021X16369909628542 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1332/263169021X16369909628542 | en |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2631-6900 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 68 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2631-6897 | |
| dc.identifier.issued | 1 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Emotions and Society | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 49 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/13021 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 4 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Bristol University Press | en |
| dc.relation.project | 832940 | |
| dc.rights | © 2022, the Authors. Published by Bristol University Press. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Emotions and Society. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/263169021X16369909628542 | en |
| dc.subject | Affective intentionality | en |
| dc.subject | Emotion regulation | en |
| dc.subject | Emotional mechanism | en |
| dc.subject | Feelings of inferiority and impotence | en |
| dc.subject | Motions | en |
| dc.subject | Ressentiment | en |
| dc.title | What are emotional mechanisms? | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
