Date: Apr 03 , 2019 3:00pm-4:30pm
Location: Dunton Tower: Room 2203
Speaker: Gerald C. Cupchik
Title: Applying a Phase Theory Approach to the Study of Emotion and Imagination
Abstract:
This lecture will examine three central concepts: cognition, emotion, and imagination in relation to mind-body processes in different circumstances. The ideas are based on my work in emotion and aesthetics.
From the viewpoint of social psychology, I propose that human cognition cannot exist without emotion and emotion cannot exist without cognition. The question becomes: What kinds of cognitive processes complement emotions, feelings, and affects? I further propose that imagination and belief lie on a continuum rather than being mutually exclusive. The term imagination encompasses a whole range of concepts; images, imagery, imaginary, and imagine, among others, that are important to different scholarly communities. The unifying phase theory idea suggests that:
(1) emotions, feelings, and affects, as well as
(2) imagination, images, imagery, and so on
are phenomena that appear through relations between mind and body in different circumstances.