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      Solving the Emotion Paradox: Categorization and the Experience of Emotion

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      Personality and Social Psychology Review
      Informa UK Limited

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          In this article, I introduce an emotion paradox: People believe that they know an emotion when they see it, and as a consequence assume that emotions are discrete events that can be recognized with some degree of accuracy, but scientists have yet to produce a set of clear and consistent criteria for indicating when an emotion is present and when it is not. I propose one solution to this paradox: People experience an emotion when they conceptualize an instance of affective feeling. In this view, the experience of emotion is an act of categorization, guided by embodied knowledge about emotion. The result is a model of emotion experience that has much in common with the social psychological literature on person perception and with literature on embodied conceptual knowledge as it has recently been applied to social psychology.

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          Journal
          Personality and Social Psychology Review
          Pers Soc Psychol Rev
          Informa UK Limited
          1088-8683
          1532-7957
          December 21 2016
          February 2006
          December 21 2016
          February 2006
          : 10
          : 1
          : 20-46
          Affiliations
          [1 ]Department of Psychology, Boston College
          Article
          10.1207/s15327957pspr1001_2
          16430327
          500f9807-0309-446f-a802-5bbd1b1db207
          © 2006

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