RECONCILIATION OF CONFLICTING EMOTIONS: LOVE, ENVY AND HATE
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2011, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
Much psychological and neuropsychological research on emotions simply assumes that some emotions are negative and others positive and that emotions such as love and hate are in some sense opposite. There is no theory, however, to explain why we should assign positive or negative values to particular emotional states, and even less to explain the commonplace that hate is the opposite of love. It has long been recognized that hate can arise in the place of love, but again, there is no theory to explain why this happens. The present study, consistent with microgenetic theory, attempts to comprehend the problem from a process-based approach. If we can understand why love can turn to hate and what happens when this occurs, we will at the same time have acquired significant insight into the workings of emotion and the age-old conflict between “head” and “heart.”
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Jason Brown, Bruce MacQueen
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