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Is reward an emotion?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2000

Ralph Adolphs
Ralph Adolphs
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242 ralph-adolphs@uiowa.edu
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Abstract

The brain and emotion treats emotions as states elicited by reinforcers (reward or punishment), but it is unclear how this view can do justice to the diversity of emotions. It is also unclear how such a view distinguishes emotions from states such as hunger and thirst. A complementary approach to understanding emotions may begin by considering emotions as aspects of social cognition.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 192
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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