Meta-emotions and the complexity of human emotional experience
M Miceli, C Castelfranchi�- New Ideas in Psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
We suggest that meta-emotions–defined as emotions about one's own emotions–contribute
to the complexity of people's psychic life by modifying the intensity and quality of their first-
order emotions, and influencing their decisions and behaviour. After addressing similarities
and differences between first-order and second-order emotions, and the role played on the
latter by emotion goals and evaluations about emotions, we try to show how, by revealing
the consequences of emotions, meta-emotions orient people towards, and turn them away�…
to the complexity of people's psychic life by modifying the intensity and quality of their first-
order emotions, and influencing their decisions and behaviour. After addressing similarities
and differences between first-order and second-order emotions, and the role played on the
latter by emotion goals and evaluations about emotions, we try to show how, by revealing
the consequences of emotions, meta-emotions orient people towards, and turn them away�…