Journal
EMOTION REVIEW
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 310-318Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1754073916669595
Keywords
action; automatic; dual process; emotion; goal directed; stimulus driven
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- Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) [G.0223.13N]
- KU Leuven [GOA/15/003, PF/10/005]
- Belgian Science Policy Office [P7/33]
- Methusalem Grant of Ghent University [B0F09/01M00209]
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Standard dual-process models in the action domain postulate that stimulus-driven processes are responsible for suboptimal behavior because they take them to be rigid and automatic and therefore the default. We propose an alternative dual-process model in which goal-directed processes are the default instead. We then transfer the dual- process logic from the action domain to the emotion domain. This reveals that emotional behavior is often attributed to stimulus-driven processes. Our alternative model submits that goal-directed processes could be the primary determinant of emotional behavior instead. We evaluate the type of empirical evidence required for validating our model and we consider implications of our model for behavior change, encouraging strategies focused on the expectancies and values of action outcomes.
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