Randolph M. Nesse (1992) Undervaluation of the Emotion-mood Distinction. Psycoloquy: 3(10) Mood (9)
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Psycoloquy 3(10): Undervaluation of the Emotion-mood Distinction
UNDERVALUATION OF THE EMOTION-MOOD DISTINCTION
Reply to Mancuso on Nesse on Mood
Randolph M. Nesse
Department of Psychiatry
C 440 Med-Inn Bldg.
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI 48109-0840
nesse@um.cc.umich.edu
Abstract
As scientists we must try to create categories that
have correspondence to an "external something".
Keywords
Mood, evolution, natural selection, fitness, emotion,
adaptation, function, depression, psychology, psychiatry.
1. Deconstructionism notwithstanding, it seems to me that we are, as
scientists, trying to create categories that have "correspondence to an
external something." Otherwise, why bother?
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