Open Peer Commentary
Eva Jablonkaa1 and Simona Ginsburga2
a1 Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. jablonka@post.tau.ac.il
a2 Department of Natural Science, The Open University of Israel, Raanana 43107, Israel. simona@openu.ac.il
Abstract
We suggest that, in animals, the core-affect system is linked to partially assimilated behavioral dispositions that act as developmental scaffolds for the ontogenetic construction of emotions. We also propose that in humans the evolution of language altered the control of emotions, leading to categories that can be adequately captured only by emotion-words.
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