Beliefs depend on what you believe

A feature about belief based emotions is that they do not depend upon actual states of affairs for their existence but instead on what the person believes the states of affairs actually is.

Let us take a faintly macabre example.

If we believe someone we care about has died, but in reality they have not, we may feel grief.

On the other hand if we believe they have not died, but in fact they have, then grief is not present.


Thus, in both cases, the emotion follows the belief, not the reality

Source:
Bill Tomlinsonhttp://billtomlinson.net/me/LogicofEmotionPaper.html