When blame is understood to be emotion-based or affective, its emotional tone is standardly identified as one of anger. We argue that this conception of affective blame is overly restrictive. By attending to cases of blame that emerge against a background of a particular kind of hope invested in others, we identify a blaming response characterized not by anger but by sadness: reactive disappointment. We develop an account of reactive disappointment as affective blame, maintaining that while angry blame and disappointed blame are both condemnatory responses, they have distinct evaluative foci and occupy different but complementary roles in our accountability practices.

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谴责的失望

当责备被理解为基于情绪或情感时，其情绪基调通常被认为是一种愤怒。我们认为这种情感责备的概念过于严格。通过关注在对他人寄予特定希望的背景下出现的责备案例，我们确定了一种以悲伤而不是愤怒为特征的责备反应：反应性失望。我们将反应性失望描述为情感责备，坚持认为虽然愤怒的责备和失望的责备都是谴责性反应，但它们具有不同的评估焦点，在我们的问责实践中扮演不同但互补的角色。