The Ordinary Concept of Happiness (and Others Like It)

2011/06/28 by Jonathan Phillips, Luke Misenheimer, Joshua Knobe · 1 citation
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Cultural Differences and Values #Child and Animal Learning Development #Psychology #Happiness #Social psychology #Cognitive psychology #Epistemology #Philosophy

paper · doi:10.1177/1754073911402385

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Abstract

The authors provide evidence for a distinction between two fundamentally different kinds of emotion concepts. Certain concepts serve simply to pick out a psychological state, whereas others involve a role for moral evaluation.

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