Constructionist approaches to emotion are united in the assumption that the mental events called “anger,” “sadness,” and “fear,” and so on, are not basic building blocks in the mind, but instead are mental events that result from the interplay of more basic psychological ingredients that are not themselves specific to emotion.
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evidence:
* Individual difference in pattern of change in emotion \n components per emotion
* Across situations: same emotions entailing different \n patterns of change