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Seeing the elephant: Parsimony, functionalism, and the emergent design of contempt and other sentiments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2017
Abstract
The target article argues that contempt is a sentiment, and that sentiments are the deep structure of social affect. The 26 commentaries meet these claims with a range of exciting extensions and applications, as well as critiques. Most significantly, we reply that construction and emergence are necessary for, not incompatible with, evolved design, while parsimony requires explanatory adequacy and predictive accuracy, not mere simplicity.
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Target article
On the deep structure of social affect: Attitudes, emotions, sentiments, and the case of “contempt”
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Author response
Seeing the elephant: Parsimony, functionalism, and the emergent design of contempt and other sentiments