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The conceptualization of emotions across cultures: a model based on interoceptive neuroscience
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posted on 2023-06-09, 23:18 authored by Pin Zhou, Hugo CritchleyHugo Critchley, Sarah Garfinkel, Ya GaoMental processes are recognized to be embodied, hence dependent upon functions of the body. Interoception (i.e., the sense of the internal bodily physiology) underpinning motivational states and emotional feelings, however, are mostly ignored within present sensory-motor accounts of embodiment. The inclusion of interoception within models of embodiment is important both for health psychology and for theories of cognition. Here, we deduce that reference to visceral organs, in language describing emotion concepts, should be viewed as metonymy (i.e., the mental mapping wherein a component is used to describe the whole), rather than metaphor (i.e., one familiar and concrete concept used to describe another unfamiliar and/or abstract concept that shares some similarities). This view contrasts with a dominant assumption within cognitive linguistics. We further argue that conceptual differences in the assumption about the body-mind-emotion relationship or emotional somatization, evident when comparing Chinese to standard English, is culturally and cognitively determined (e.g., by divergent Western and Chinese philosophical, medical traditions and meaning systems). We propose a new model in which two contending variables, bodily transparency and cognitive granularity, define cultural differences in emotion conceptualization, capturing the dynamic multidimensional interaction between body, mind, brain, language, and society.
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Neuroscience and Biobehavioral ReviewsISSN
0149-7634Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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125Page range
314-327Event location
United StatesDepartment affiliated with
- BSMS Neuroscience Publications
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2021-03-12First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
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