Emotion and Personality (vol. 1): Psychological Aspects
| Authors | Arnold, Magda Blondiau |
| Tags | Personality, Emotions |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Published | 16 Jan 1960 |
| Date | 22 Nov 2025 |
| Languages | eng |
| Identifiers | uri: https://archive.org/details/emotionpersonali01arno, google: etmBzgEACAAJ, oclc: 1033583398, isbn: 9780231089395 |
| Formats | PDF, PDF_OCR |
Description
Bibliography: v. 1, p. [277]-288; v. 2, p. [364]-402
v. 1. Psychological aspects.
~~v. 2. Neurological and physiological aspects~~
Magda Arnold was a Thomist psychologist; cf. the following, in which she is also seen to be a cognitivist (that the đź§ is a sort of computer):
- Arnold, Magda B. “The Internal Senses—Functions or Powers?: Part II.” The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 26, no. 1 (1963): 15–34.
Cited in Lombardo, The Logic of Desire: Aquinas on Emotion p. 11 (PDF p. 28):
The psychologist Magda Arnold, who had been deeply influenced by her study of Aquinas,33 published a two-volume work on emotion that emphasized the role of what she called “cognitive appraisal.”34 Cognitivist accounts of emotion have since become dominant in both philosophy and psychology.
33. Randolph R. Cornelius, “Magda Arnold’s Thomistic Theory of Emotion, the Self-Ideal, and the Moral Dimension of Appraisal,” Cognition and Emotion 20 (2006): 976–1000.