Building a house of sentiment on sand: Epistemological issues with contempt

Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan:40:e242. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16000819.

Abstract

Contempt shares its features with other emotions, indicating that there is no justification for creating "sentiment" as a new category of feelings. Scientific categories must be created or updated on the basis of evidence. Building a new category on the currently limited contempt literature would be akin to building a house on sand - likely to fall at any moment.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Attitude
  • Disgust*
  • Emotions*