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Development of social emotions and constructive agents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Aaron Ben Ze'ev
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905 Israel, rhphz01@uvm.haifa.ac.il
Keith Oatley
Affiliation:
Center for Applied Technology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ONT M55 1V6, Canada

Abstract

The psychology of emotions illuminates the questions of intentional capacities raised by Barresi & Moore (B&M). Complex emotions require the development of a sense of self and are based on social comparisons between mainly imagined objects. The fourth level in B&M's framework requires something like a constructive agent rather than a mental agent.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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