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Being moved is a positive emotion, and emotions should not be equated with their vernacular labels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2017

Thomas W. Schubert ,
Beate Seibt ,
Janis H. Zickfeld ,
Johanna K. Blomster  and
Alan P. Fiske
Thomas W. Schubert
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway. thomas.wolfgang.schubert@gmail.com beate.seibt@psykologi.uio.no jhzickfeld@gmail.com johanna.katarina.blomster@gmail.com http://www.igroup.org/schubert http://www.sv.uio.no/psi/personer/vit/beatesei
Beate Seibt
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway. thomas.wolfgang.schubert@gmail.com beate.seibt@psykologi.uio.no jhzickfeld@gmail.com johanna.katarina.blomster@gmail.com http://www.igroup.org/schubert http://www.sv.uio.no/psi/personer/vit/beatesei
Janis H. Zickfeld
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway. thomas.wolfgang.schubert@gmail.com beate.seibt@psykologi.uio.no jhzickfeld@gmail.com johanna.katarina.blomster@gmail.com http://www.igroup.org/schubert http://www.sv.uio.no/psi/personer/vit/beatesei
Johanna K. Blomster
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway. thomas.wolfgang.schubert@gmail.com beate.seibt@psykologi.uio.no jhzickfeld@gmail.com johanna.katarina.blomster@gmail.com http://www.igroup.org/schubert http://www.sv.uio.no/psi/personer/vit/beatesei
Alan P. Fiske
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095. afiske@ucla.edu http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/
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Abstract

As evidence for the second process of the Embracing factor, the target article characterizes being moved as a mixed emotion linked to sadness through metonymy. We question these characterizations and argue that emotions should not be equated with their vernacular labels.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e374
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