Two main theories of emotional affectivity exist in the modern philosophy of emotion: sensationalism and 'cognitivism'. The fundamental dispute between these theories concerns the question of whether feeling merely accompanies the evaluative content of emotion or is directed toward it. I reject both ...
One of the main content theories of motivation, the Two-Factory Theory was proposed by American psychologist Frederick Herzberg. According to this theory, there are two types of factors that influence motivation and satisfaction among individuals, particularly those who work in the employment sector. ...
In recent years, numerous emotion-focused theories have emerged to explain the role of chronic and pathological worry that characterizes generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Although focusing on different processes in the maintenance of psychopathology, these theories have in common the argument that worry...
you can’t experience opposites in the same moment. This reasoning would mean it’s impossible to hold two opposite emotions at once; you must instead be flipping back and forth. Ever since scientists proposed the first theories on the biological foundations of emotion, this is how they’ve ...
makes it more difficult to generalise findings from a particular patient to broader theories about cognitive processing. Altogether, then, irrespective of modularity, it is not clear that the logic of dissociations used in cognitive neuropsychology can be applied to delusions and beliefs in the same...
Emotion regulation (ER) plays a central role in mental health1,2. Although traditional theories and research on ER have classified strategies as either uniformly adaptive or maladaptive1,3,4, recent theoretical models and empirical research have revisited the person–situation interactionist approach lon...
of empathy depends on the situation evoking empathy,but information function of empathy is dispositional and steady, which stands longer.The co-effect of the two functions makes empathy adapt better in the course of decision-making on prosocial behavior.The theories of empathy's functions will cast...
This paper compares two theories of the nature of logic: Maddy's, ( 2007 , 2014a )—henceforth "Theory 1"—and Sher's ( 1991 , 2016 )—"Theory 2". The two theories share a significant element: they both diverge from the commonly held view that logic is grounded only in the mind ...
Hume spoke for many when he said: “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”[1] Like Hume, many people conceive of reason as separate from emotion, and needing the emotions in order to ...
This article presents some aspects of two theories of psychological development created from the viewpoint of the dialectical materialism: those of Henri Wallon and of Lev Vygotsky. The work argues that the fact that both these authors developed their theories from the same philosophical roots ...