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Constructing contempt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2017

Victoria L. Spring ,
C. Daryl Cameron ,
Kurt Gray  and
Kristen A. Lindquist
Victoria L. Spring
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16801. vls23@psu.edu victoria-spring.wix.com/aboutme
C. Daryl Cameron
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16801. vls23@psu.edu victoria-spring.wix.com/aboutme The Rock Ethics Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16801. cdc49@psu.edu https://sites.psu.edu/emplab/
Kurt Gray
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. kurtgray@unc.edu kristen.lindquist@unc.edu www.mpmlab.org unc.edu/~kal29
Kristen A. Lindquist
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. kurtgray@unc.edu kristen.lindquist@unc.edu www.mpmlab.org unc.edu/~kal29
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Abstract

Gervais & Fessler argue that contempt is a natural kind and that its experience cannot be explained by a constructionist account of emotion. We dispute these claims and offer a positive constructionist model of contempt that accounts for the existing evidence and unifies conflicting findings in the literature on contempt.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e246
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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