On “Positive” and “Negative” Emotions

By R. Solomon, Lori D. Stone. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Teachers’ emotions and professional identity in curriculum reform: A Chinese perspective (2011, background): “However, this polarized dichotomy may be misleading and unhelpful in some cases because unpleasant emotions can play positive roles when they are judged by the social functions rather than the approach-avoidance appraisal ( Solomon and Stone 2002 ).”
Feeling Is for Doing: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of Emotions in Economic Behavior (2006, background): “What is more relevant here is that some emotions are bivalent—that is, they carry aspects of both positive and negative valence in them ( Solomon & Stone, 2002 ).”
The multiplicity of emotions: A framework of emotional functions in decision making (2008, background): “For others, however, we endorse the argument of Solomon and Stone (2002), that it is impossible to reduce the qualitatively complex and multidimensional appraisals to a simple valence dimension.”
Understanding phenomenological differences in how affordances solicit action. An exploration (2018, background): “…recent criticism of such hedonicity: the dichotomy of positive and negative does not seem to capture the wide range of how things may be valenced (Solomon and Stone 2002; Lambie and Marcel 2002; Kristjánsson 2003; Charland 2005; Colombetti 2005).10 On some occasions, valence is discussed in the…”
What is an emotional disorder? A transdiagnostic mechanistic definition with implications for assessment, treatment, and prevention (2019, background): “Inherent to the experience of any emotion is a valuation or appraisal of that emotion (Izard, 1971; Solomon & Stone, 2002; Tomkins, 1962, 1963).”
Positive and negative emotional attractors and intentional change (2006, background): “These include the situational level of experience (assessment of a particular stimulus situation or event); the intrapersonal level (assessment of the situation's positive and/or negative impact on oneself); and the social system level (assessment of the situation's positive and/or negative impact o”
On emotion specificity in decision making: Why feeling is for doing (2008, background): “Valence is a term borrowed from physics and chemistry (Solomon & Stone, 2002).”
Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Education (2020, background): “The wording “so-called positive / negative emotions” is used here because there are often serious problems in labeling the so-called negative emotions as undesired and “bad” [167], even though numerous psychologists and other writers have emphasized that they also belong to normal life [57,123,144].”