澄清混合情感结构的争论

Abstract Felt emotional ambivalence, bittersweet emotional experience, and other cases of apparent coexistence between affectively discordant emotions raise a much-debated empirical question: do affectively discordant feelings actually coexist (Coexistence hypothesis), or do they just seem to us to do so, due to their rapid alternation (Vacillation hypothesis)? This paper seeks to clarify what is at stake in addressing this question, without thereby endorsing any of the standard answers to it as the debate is usually framed; instead, it argues that coexistence and vacillation are best treated