Andrea Scarantino
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Scarantino A
Behav Brain Sci
. 2025 Jan;
48:e42.
PMID: 39886866
Murayama and Jach criticize the use of high-level motivational constructs in psychology, urging psychologists to "unpack" the black box. These constructs are alleged to be "psychological constructions" with no causal...
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Hess U, Hareli S, Scarantino A
Cogn Emot
. 2023 Oct;
38(3):389-398.
PMID: 37847300
Emotional facial expressions have a communicative function. Besides information about the internal states (emotions) and the intentions of the expresser (action tendencies), they also communicate what the expresser wants the...
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Scarantino A, Hareli S, Hess U
Emotion
. 2021 Nov;
22(8):1856-1868.
PMID: 34766791
Emotion expressions convey information. One important kind of information, from a communicative perspective, is information about what is demanded of the recipients of the expression. Compared to the vast body...
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Dukes D, Abrams K, Adolphs R, Ahmed M, Beatty A, Berridge K, et al.
Nat Hum Behav
. 2021 Jun;
5(7):816-820.
PMID: 34112980
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Scarantino A
Behav Brain Sci
. 2012 May;
35(3):161-2.
PMID: 22617670
Lindquist et al. have assumed that functional specialization requires a one-to-one mapping between brain regions and discrete emotions. This assumption is in tension with the fact that regions can have...
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Piccinini G, Scarantino A
J Biol Phys
. 2012 Jan;
37(1):1-38.
PMID: 22210958
Computation and information processing are among the most fundamental notions in cognitive science. They are also among the most imprecisely discussed. Many cognitive scientists take it for granted that cognition...
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Scarantino A
Behav Brain Sci
. 2010 Jun;
33(2-3):223-4.
PMID: 20584415
I argue that Machery stacks the deck against hybrid theories of concepts by relying on an unduly restrictive understanding of coordination between concept parts. Once a less restrictive notion of...
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Scarantino A
Bioethics
. 2009 Aug;
24(8):421-30.
PMID: 19659854
How should UNOS deal with the presence of scientific controversies on the risk factors for organ rejection when designing its allocation policies? The answer I defend in this paper is...