@article{1386404,
      recid = {1386404},
      author = {De Sousa, Ronald.},
      title = {The rationality of emotion /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xix, 373 pages) :},
      year = {1987},
      abstract = {In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes  the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural  antagonists. He argues that emotions are a kind of  perception, that their roots in the paradigm scenarios in  which they are learned give them an essentially dramatic  structure, and that they have a crucial role to-play in  rational beliefs, desires, and decisions by breaking the  deadlocks of pure reason.The book's twelve chapters take up  the following topics: alternative models of mind and  emotion; the relation between evolutionary, physiological,  and social factors in emotions; a taxonomy of objects of  emotions; assessments of emotions for correctness and  rationality; the regulation by emotions of logical and  practical reasoning; emotion and time; the mechanism of  emotional self-deception; the ethics of laughter; and the  roles of emotions in the conduct of life. There is also an  illustrative interlude, in the form of a lively dialogue  about the ideology of love, jealousy, and sexual  exclusiveness.A Bradford Book.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386404},
}