Phew! Well that’s a relief for you – understanding relief in others

Description

Relief has received insufficient scientific inquiry despite being evidenced as a frequently experienced and highly prototypical emotion. Developmental psychology has focused only on the type of relief that is felt when comparing reality to a worse counterfactual world. Relief is also experienced, however, when an unpleasant experience is over and in the past. A recent philosophical analysis has proposed that these two types of relief hold distinct cognitive prerequisites and behavioural functions. In this talk, I will describe an experimental design that attempts to tease apart two developmental trajectories of relief. In particular, the task is designed to observe when children can first accurately attribute two types of relief to others through vignettes. If a developmental lag is observed in the ability to understand these two types of relief in others, this will provide the first empirical evidence that these two forms of relief dissociate developmentally and require different levels of cognition.

Period	05 Sep 2019
Event title	27th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Event type	Conference
Location	Athens, Greece
Degree of Recognition	International