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Emotion and Rationality: A Critical Review and Interpretation of Empirical Evidence

Pham, Michel Tuan·2007·Review of General Psychology
DOI 10.1037/1089-2680.11.2.155
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Abstract

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
DOI
10.1037/1089-2680.11.2.155
OpenAlex
W2097740601
Cited by
552
References
224
Citations by year
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FWCI
14.24
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
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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