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Emotion theory is about more than affect and cognition: Taking triggers and actions into account

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

Charles S. Carver
Charles S. Carver*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL33124-0751http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/ccarver/
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CCarver@miami.edu
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Abstract:

Understanding how emotions emerge is difficult without determining what characteristic of the trigger actually triggers them. Knowing whether emotional experiences self-stabilize is difficult without remembering what other processes are set in play as the emotion emerges. It is not clear either that positive feedback is required for the emergence of emotion or that an attractor model captures well what is happening when an emotion arises.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 198 - 199
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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