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Contempt – Where the modularity of the mind meets the modularity of the brain?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2017

Danilo Bzdok  and
Leonhard Schilbach
Danilo Bzdok
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany. danilo.bzdok@rwth-aachen.dehttp://www.danilobzdok.de JARA, Translational Brain Medicine, 52074 Aachen, Germany DFG-IRTG2150, International Research Training Group, 52074 Aachen, Germany Parietal Team, INRIA, Neurospin, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Leonhard Schilbach
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804 Munich, Germany. leonhard_schilbach@psych.mpg.dehttp://www.leonhardschilbach.de
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Abstract

“Contempt” is proposed to be a unique aspect of human nature, yet a non-natural kind. Its psychological construct is framed as a sentiment emerging from a stratification of diverse basic emotions and dispositional attitudes. Accordingly, “contempt” might transcend traditional conceptual levels in social psychology, including experience and recognition of emotion, dyadic and group dynamics, context-conditioned attitudes, time-enduring personality structure, and morality. This strikes us as a modern psychological account of a high-level, social-affective cognitive facet that joins forces with recent developments in the social neuroscience by drawing psychological conclusions from brain biology.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e229
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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