Emotional Processing
Scientific Conundrums
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Scientific Conundrums |
Since
emotional processing was described in 1980 by
Rachman, it has been referred to in the literature but not researched in
its own right to any great extent. It has not seen the sort of
exponential growth as cognitive theories have, either in experimental or clinical
realms. However, emotion and cognition are similarly inferred mental
states. Does this represent, as Thomas Scheff argued (1984), a
sort of scientific taboo or wariness about emotion research; is cognition
just more important and interesting to researchers; or are
there major scientific shortcomings, vagueness and wooliness inherent in
the concepts of emotion and emotional processing?
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Not another concept of processing!
Does the
concept of emotional processing commit the
fallacy of tautology?
'Science is built up of facts, as a house
is built up of stones;
but an accumulation of facts is no more a science
than a heap of stones is a house'
Dorset
RDSU
Cornelia House Poole Hospital NHS Trust Longfleet Road Poole
Dorset BH15 2JB
Email dawn.stevens@poole.nhs.uk
