拉尔夫·D·埃利斯(Ralph D.在安德烈·舒沃尔(Andre Schuwer),约翰·萨利斯(John Sallis)和阿姆迪奥·乔治(Amedeo Giorgi)领导下的杜肯大学(Duquesne University),自1985年以来就在克拉克亚特兰大大学(Clark Atlanta University)任教。他随后获得了博士后硕士学位。在佐治亚州立大学的公共事务中,还曾在匹兹堡和亚特兰大担任社会工作者。Partly as a result of those experi ences, as well as being a life-long practitioner of Gene Gendlin's focusing method, he gravitated toward emotion research and the intersection of philosophy, psychology and the brain sciences from the enactivist perspective, arguing that action, as opposed to mere reaction, has to be emotionally motivated, and that the understanding of