James C. Mancuso (1992) Does "emotion" Refer to a Real-world Entity?
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Psycoloquy 3(09): Does "emotion" Refer to a Real-world Entity?
DOES "EMOTION" REFER TO A REAL-WORLD ENTITY?
Commentary on Nesse on Mood
James C. Mancuso
Department of Psychology
University at Albany
Albany NY 12203
JCM61@ALBNYVMS.BITNET.
Abstract
We would profit from determining ways people istantiate
the constructions of "mood" and "emotion" rather than attempting to
develop a construction allowing confidence that we have created a
correspondence to an external something.
Keywords
Mood, evolution, natural selection, fitness, emotion,
adaptation, function, depression, psychology, psychiatry.
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