Philosophers have not been very preoccupied by the link between emotions and attention. The few that did (de Sousa, 1987) never really specified the relation between the two phenomena. Using empirical data from the study of the emotion of fear, we provide a description (and an explanation) of the links between emotion and attention. We also discuss the nature (empirical or conceptual) of these links.
2024. A broad variety account of infantile need-experiences. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Christiansen, Regina & Anette S. Nielsen
2023. Bring me my alcohol!—On the continuum of pleasure and pain. Nursing Philosophy 24:1
Mejía, Andrés
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Mitchell, Jonathan
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Mitchell, Jonathan
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Silva, Laura
2023. Towards an Affective Quality Space. Journal of Consciousness Studies 30:7 ► pp. 164 ff.
Engelsen, Søren
2022. Wellbeing Competence. Philosophies 7:2 ► pp. 42 ff.
Graton, Aurélien & Melody Mailliez
2019. A Theory of Guilt Appeals: A Review Showing the Importance of Investigating Cognitive Processes as Mediators between Emotion and Behavior. Behavioral Sciences 9:12 ► pp. 117 ff.
Majeed, Raamy
2019. What Can Information Encapsulation Tell Us About Emotional Rationality?. In The Value of Emotions for Knowledge, ► pp. 51 ff.
Majeed, Raamy
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Majeed, Raamy
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Carman, Mary
2018. How Emotions do not Provide Reasons to Act. Philosophia 46:3 ► pp. 555 ff.
Parra, Mario A., Manuel Guillermo Sánchez, Stella Valencia & Natalia Trujillo
2018. Attentional bias during emotional processing: evidence from an emotional flanker task using IAPS. Cognition and Emotion 32:2 ► pp. 275 ff.
Graton, Aurélien & François Ric
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Monteleone, John M.
2017. Attention, Emotion, and Evaluative Understanding. Philosophia 45:4 ► pp. 1749 ff.
Berninger, Anja
2016. Thinking sadly: In favor of an adverbial theory of emotions. Philosophical Psychology 29:6 ► pp. 799 ff.
Mulligan, Kevin
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Muramatsu, Roberta & Yaniv Hanoch
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