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| Publication date |
30-10-2017
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| Journal |
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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| Article number |
e237
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| Volume | Issue number |
40
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
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| Abstract |
Gervais and Fessler assert that contempt is (a) not an emotion (or an attitude), but (b) a sentiment. Here, we challenge the validity and empirical basis of these two assertions, arguing that contempt, as many other emotions, can be both an emotion and sentiment.
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| Document type |
Comment/Letter to the editor
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| Note |
Open Peer Commentary to: M.M. Gervais, Daniel M.T. Fessler (2017) On the deep structure of social affect: Attitudes, emotions, sentiments, and the case of “contempt”, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40:e225.
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16000765
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