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The Rise Of Affectivism, Terry A. Maroney, David Dukes, Et Al.
The Rise Of Affectivism, Terry A. Maroney, David Dukes, Et Al.
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Research over the past decades has demonstrated the explanatory power of emotions, feelings, motivations, moods, and other affective processes when trying to understand and predict how we think and behave. In this consensus article, we ask: has the increasingly recognized impact of affective phenomena ushered in a new era, the era of affectivism? ...
The behavioural and cognitive sciences have faced perennial challenges of incorporating emotions, feelings, motivations, moods, and other affective processes into models of human behaviour and the human mind. Such processes have long been marginalised or ignored, typically on the basis that they were irrational, un-measurable, or …