Drawing on neuroscience and experimental psychology to overturn the assumption that emotions are innate and universal, this book describes them as "goal-based concepts" designed to help us categorize experience.
Thus, the considerable differences between European and non-European languages and the difficulty initially involved in translating between them cast doubt on the existence of any universal stock of ideas, or any universal way of categorizing experience in terms of such ideas.
Those willing to provisionally accept the inclusive usage without evidence that it is widespread and grounded in natural ways of categorizing experience (and thus not to be dismisssed out of hand as a mere philosophers' confusion or tendentious invention) may wish to skip now to this note's last paragraph.
It "stands in the Surrealist tradition of the uncanny, of the informe, disturbing the distinctions, by which we categorize experience".
That is because the best psychological theories will be concerned with categorizing experiences causally, that is, according to their role in causing beliefs and behavior.
The worry is that the best psychological theories might categorize experiences in such a way that what, intuitively, seem to be nonexperiential sources of justification (say, intellectual intuitions or rational insights; see sec.
A fellow traveling to post-earthquake Haiti could easily and correctly argue that their experience covered humanitarian relief, disaster medicine, and travel and field medicine domain requirements Fellowship directors would have to categorize experiences with fellows beforehand as being in one domain or another to avoid any discrepancies after the experience has been carried out.
Through the catalogue, you could buy the blueprints and materials to build a geodesic dome, guides to Japanese landscaping techniques, work boots and moccasins, macrobiotic cookbooks, and academic journals that categorized psychedelic experience.
For each ANC visit the woman attended, we ascertained if SP was offered or not and categorized her experience as 1) having received SP; 2) out of stock of SP, the woman was told to buy it on her own or return to ANC later to receive it; 3) asked to buy SP from the ANC; 4) the ANC never mentioned SP, or 5) SP was offered, but the woman declined to use it.
For additional analyses, we categorized preexplosion experience as "unexposed".
