What are emotional mechanisms?

The article offers an account of emotional mechanisms (EMs). EMs are claimed to be personal, often unconscious, distinctively patterned, mental processes whereby emotion a given kind is transmuted into different kind. After preliminary considerations about emotions as felt evaluations, the identifies three families mechanisms. These set in motion when (for example, envy, shame or anger) generates feelings inferiority and/or impotence subject resulting negative sense self. prompt evaluative reappraisal emotion’s intentional target. Based on reappraisal, comes feel emotion, which does not generate impotence. Importantly, second entails psychological disposition collectivised: seeks confirmation revised evaluation by sharing with others. It argued that these features apart from other regulatory processes.