Contempt - Where the modularity of the mind meets the modularity of the brain?

Bzdok, Danilo; Schilbach, Leonhard

doi:10.1017/S0140525X16000698

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Contempt - Where the modularity of the mind meets the modularity of the brain?

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Schilbach, Leonhard
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Max Planck Society;

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Bzdok, D., & Schilbach, L. (2017). Contempt - Where the modularity of the mind meets the modularity of the brain? BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES, 40: e229. doi:10.1017/S0140525X16000698.

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"Contempt" is proposed to be a unique aspect of human nature, yet a non-natural kind. Its psychological construct is framed as a sentiment emerging from a stratification of diverse basic emotions and dispositional attitudes. Accordingly, "contempt" might transcend traditional conceptual levels in social psychology, including experience and recognition of emotion, dyadic and group dynamics, context-conditioned attitudes, time-enduring personality structure, and morality. This strikes us as a modern psychological account of a high-level, social-affective cognitive facet that joins forces with recent developments in the social neuroscience by drawing psychological conclusions from brain biology.