Emotion and Rationality: A Critical Review and Interpretation of Empirical Evidence
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The relation between emotion and rationality is assessed by reviewing empirical findings from multiple disciplines. Two types of emotional phenomena are examined—incidental emotional states and integral emotional responses—and three conceptions of rationality are considered—logical, material, and ecological. Emotional states influence reasoning processes, are often misattributed to focal objects, distort beliefs in an assimilative fashion, disrupt self-control when intensely negative, but do not necessarily increase risk-taking. Integral emotional responses are often used as proxies for values, and valuations based on these responses exhibit distinct properties: efficiency, consistency, polarization, myopia, scale- insensitivity, and reference-dependence. Emotions seem to promote social and moral behavior. Conjectures about the design features of the affective system that give rise to seeming sources of rationality or irrationality are proposed. It is concluded that any categorical statement about the overall rationality or irrationality of emotion would be misleading.
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- Authors
- Pham, M. T.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Pham, Michel Tuan
- ORCID
- Pham, Michel Tuan
- Venue
- Review of General Psychology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-06
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 155-178
- ISSN
- 1089-2680 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1552
- OpenAlex
- W2097740601
- Cited by
- 552
- References
- 231
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 14.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Review of General Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Columbia University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Keywords
- reason and emotion, emotional state, belief distortion, self-control, risk-taking, values, affective valuation, reference dependence
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