Las emociones como metaprogramas:lo que la psicología evolucionista nos puede enseñar sobre éstas

Andrea F. Melamed

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Emotions as meta-programms: what evolutionary pshychology can teach us about them

The problem of how to characterize emotions is still open. Different approaches have been grouped into two major views: on the one hand, cognitive theory holds that emotions are essentially constituted by some kind of evaluative judgment; on the other, perceptual theory denies that an evaluation of that sort is necessary for an emotion to occur. In this paper I examine the proposal of evolutionary psychology, specially in the face of emotion problems. In particular, I consider the possibility that their original conception of emotions as superordinate programs, could solve the dispute between the perceptual view and those that defend that a cognitive component, usually an appraisal, is required for an emotion to occur.

key words. Emotion, cognition, appraisal, perception, program, superordinate program, evolutionary psychology, adaptation.


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