caa a22 4500 465803199 CHVBK 20180323112057.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00127486 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00127486 Griffiths P. Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, P. O. Box 56, Dunetin, New Zealand aut Modularity, and the psychoevolutionary theory of emotion [Elektronische Daten] [P. Griffiths] It is unreasonable to assume that our pre-scientific emotion vocabulary embodies all and only those distinctions required for a scientific psychology of emotion. The psychoevolutionary approach to emotion yields an alternative classification of certain emotion phenomena. The new categories are based on a set of evolved adaptive responses, or affect-programs, which are found in all cultures. The triggering of these responses involves a modular system of stimulus appraisal, whose evoluations may conflict with those of higher-level cognitive processes. Whilst the structure of the adaptive responses is innate, the contents of the system which triggers them are largely learnt. The circuits subserving the adaptive responses are probably located in the limbic system. This theory of emotion is directly applicable only to a small sub-domain of the traditional realm of emotion. It can be used, however, to explain the grouping of various other phenomena under the heading of emotion, and to explain various characteristic failings of the pre-scientific conception of emotion. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Emotion nationallicence modularity nationallicence psychobiology nationallicence psychoevolution nationallicence Biology and Philosophy Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/2(1990-04-01), 175-196 0169-3867 5:2<175 1990 5 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00127486 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00127486 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Griffiths P. Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, P. O. Box 56, Dunetin, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology and Philosophy Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/2(1990-04-01), 175-196 0169-3867 5:2<175 1990 5 10539 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer