The Biological Significance of Affectivity
Terrance Br own University of Chicago
I have called this principle by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection.
-- Charles Darwin( 1964/ 1859)1
The biological significance of mind is a necessary condition of scientific psychology.
-- Lev Vygotsky ( Zinchenko & Davydov, 1985)
In a thoughtful paper "On the Nature and Function of Emotion," Klaus Scherer ( 1984) points out that the history of psychology seems to cycle between periods where man is conceived as basically irrational and emotional2 and periods when he is conceived as an egg-headed creature of reason. Although currently there are indications of a shift away from the rational view inherent in behavioral and cognitivist approaches, renewed interest in emotion, according to Scherer, has so far failed to move us in the direction of more fruitful views of human mental life. One reason for this is that emotion theorists often attempt to deal with individual
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Publication information:
Book title: Psychological and Biological Approaches to Emotion.
Contributors: Nancy L. Stein - Editor, Bennett Leventhal - Editor, Tom Trabasso - Editor.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Place of publication: Hillsdale, NJ.
Publication year: 1990.
Page number: 405.
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