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Constructing contempt

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Abstract Gervais & Fessler argue that contempt is a natural kind and that its experience cannot be explained by a constructionist account of emotion. We dispute these claims and offer… Click to show full abstract

Abstract Gervais & Fessler argue that contempt is a natural kind and that its experience cannot be explained by a constructionist account of emotion. We dispute these claims and offer a positive constructionist model of contempt that accounts for the existing evidence and unifies conflicting findings in the literature on contempt.

Keywords: contempt; constructing contempt

Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2017

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