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Danilo Bzdok1, Leonhard Schilbach2
1Department of Psychiatry,Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics,Medical Faculty,RWTH Aachen,52074 Aachen,Germany.danilo.bzdok@rwth-aachen.dehttp://www.danilobzdok.de.
Abstract:
"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.
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