Suri and Gross's 2022 connectionist emotion theory can be considered as one version of a family of theories known as network theories of emotion. It presents similarities and differences with older versions of network theories. Like previous network theories and several other traditional emotion theories, however, the connectionist theory remains a reactive theory. The class of reactive theories can be meaningfully contrasted with a class of instrumental theories of which the goal-directed theory is a representative example. Although the latter theory does not deny the existence of emotion networks in memory, it does not grant them many causal powers, thereby seriously restricting their explanatory territory. Future research efforts may help disambiguate between both classes of theories.

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新袋装旧酒——苏里和格罗斯的情感联结理论是另一种网络理论

Suri 和 Gross 的 2022 年联结主义情感理论可以被视为一系列被称为情感网络理论的理论的一个版本。它展示了与旧版本的网络理论的异同。然而，与之前的网络理论和其他几种传统的情感理论一样，联结主义理论仍然是一种反应理论。反应性理论类别可以与以目标导向理论为代表的工具理论类别进行有意义的对比。后一种理论虽然不否认记忆中情感网络的存在，但并没有赋予它们很多因果力，从而严重限制了它们的解释范围。未来的研究工作可能有助于消除两类理论之间的歧义。