BACKGROUND The role of emotion in psychosis is being increasingly recognised. Cognitive conceptualisations of psychosis (e.g. [Garety, P.A., Kuipers, E.K., Fowler, D., Freeman, D., Bebbington, P.E., 2001. A cognitive model of the positive symptoms of psychosis. Psychological Medicine, 31, 189-195]) emphasise a central, normal, direct and non-defensive role for negative emotion in the developmen...

The construction of fully effective systems seems to pass through the proper exploitation of goal-centric self-evaluative capabilities that let the system teleologically self-manage. Emotions seem to provide this kind of functionality to biological systems and hence the interest in emotion for function sustainment in artificial systems performing in changing and uncertain environments; far beyo...

This paper presents a phenomenological account of central epistemic roles that emotions can play in the context value sensitivity. I specify significant ways are given lived experience as possible sources apprehension. Thereby, an explanandum or experienced framework for ongoing debate on relation between emotion and awareness is explicated. Through analysis, explicates illustrates three functi...

Historically, the hypothesis driving emotion research has been that emotion’s data-base—in language, physiology, and behavior— is organized around specific mental states, as reflected in evaluative language. It is suggested that this approach has not greatly advanced a natural science of emotion and that the developing motivational model of emotion defines a better path: emotion is an evolved t...

Abstract It is a familiar feature of our affective psychology that moods ‘crystalize’ into emotions, and emotions ‘diffuse’ moods. Providing detailed philosophical account these shifts, as I will call them, the central aim this paper. Drawing on contemporary philosophy emotion mood, alongside distinctive ideas from phenomenologically-inspired writer Robert Musil, broadly ‘intentional’ ‘evaluati...

Attentional biases in the processing of threatening facial expressions in social anxiety are well documented. It is generally assumed that these attentional biases originate in an evaluative bias: socially threatening information would be evaluated more negatively by socially anxious individuals. However, three studies have failed to evidence a negative evaluative bias in the processing of emot...