Overcoming the emotion experience/expression dichotomy

Behav Brain Sci. 2012 Jun;35(3):145-6. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X11001476.

Abstract

We challenge the classic experience/expression dichotomous account of emotions, according to which experiencing and expressing an emotion are two independent processes. By endorsing Dewey's and Mead's accounts of emotions, and capitalizing upon recent empirical findings, we propose that expression is part of the emotional experience. This proposal partly challenges the purely constructivist approach endorsed by the authors of the target article.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Brain / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Emotions / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Neuroimaging*
  • Radiography