Our reasons for emotions such as sadness, anger, resentment, and guilt often remain long after we cease experiencing these emotions. This is puzzling. If the reasons for these emotions persist, why do the emotions not persist? Does this constitute a failure to properly respond to our reasons? In this paper we provide a solution to this puzzle. Our solution turns on the close connection between the rationality of emotion and the rationality of attention, together with the differing reasons to which attention and emotion are properly responsive.

中文翻译：

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情感、注意力和理性


我们产生悲伤、愤怒、怨恨和内疚等情绪的原因往往在我们不再经历这些情绪后很长时间仍然存在。这令人费解。如果这些情绪的原因持续存在，为什么这些情绪不会持续存在？这是否构成未能正确回应我们的理由？在本文中，我们提供了这个难题的解决方案。我们的解决方案依赖于情感的理性和注意力的理性之间的密切联系，以及注意力和情感适当反应的不同原因。