can you recommend any outstanding papers or authors on Emotion?
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Replying to @Peter_OTool
The 17th c. rationalists are really great (as is Aristotle's "Rhetoric", where psychological theory plays a large role)
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
yes, i agree with this, but i meant 20th century experimental psychology/evolutionary biology
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Replying to @Peter_OTool
a/The behavioral genetics research is very exciting but changes very rapidly, idk if there is a "classic" paper yet
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @Peter_OTool
b/I'm sure you know about the replication crisis?
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
not specifically. the crisis is that many results can't be replicated?
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Replying to @Peter_OTool
Yeah, after the influential Ioannidis article there was an attempt to replicate the results of the 100 most-cited psych papers
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
well, if indeterminacy & observer effect applies to subatomic particles, I have no doubt that it applies 10000x in psychology
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Replying to @Peter_OTool
nevertheless, the whole purpose of modern science is not system/wisdom but mechanism/predictability imho
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Replying to @Peter_OTool
Agreed in theory, but on many q's (even the ones that are more biology than psychology) we haven't yet surpassed Descartes
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Btw, the SEP page on "Animal consciousness" has a lot of links to good animal psych/ethology work, that is very interesting
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
yes, i am reading candland, who uses animal behaviour as reference. autistic as hell. 'facial expressions of chickens' etc
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Replying to @Peter_OTool
i see in these people a real affinity with the socratic school depicted in aristophanes' clouds re: gnat's anus
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