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* <section begin=author />Barrett, L.F.<section end=author />
* <section begin=date />2006-09-23<section end=date />
* <section begin=year />2006<section end=year />
* <section begin=ref />Barrett 2006<section end=ref />
* <section begin=title />[[Are Emotions Natural Kinds?]]<section end=title />
* <section begin=source />''Perspectives on Psychological Science'', 1, 28-58<section end=source />
* <section begin=abstract />Laypeople and scientists alike believe that they know anger, or sadness, or fear, when they see it. These emotions and a few others are presumed to have specific causal mechanisms in the brain and properties that are observable (on the face, in the voice, in the body, or in experience) &ndash; that is, they are assumed to be natural kinds. If a given emotion is a natural kind and can be identified objectively, then it is possible to make discoveries about emotion. Indeed, the scientific study of emotion is founded on this assumption. In this article, I review the accumulating empirical evidence that is inconsistent with the view that there are kinds of emotion with boundaries that are carved in nature. I then consider what moving beyond a natural-kind view might mean for the scientific understanding of emotion.<section end=abstract />
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