Varieties of extended emotions

Joel Krueger

pp. 533-555

I offer a preliminary defense of the hypothesis of extended emotions (HEE). After discussing some taxonomic considerations, I specify two ways of parsing HEE: the hypothesis of bodily extended emotions (HEBE), and the hypothesis of environmentally extended emotions (HEEE). I argue that, while both HEBE and HEEE are empirically plausible, only HEEE covers instances of genuinely extended emotions. After introducing some further distinctions, I support one form of HEEE by appealing to different streams of empirical research—particularly work on music and emotion regulation. However, I register skepticism about a second and more radical form of HEEE.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11097-014-9363-1

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Krueger, J. (2014). Varieties of extended emotions. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13 (4), pp. 533-555.

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