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Emotion theory?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

Nico H. Frijda
Nico H. Frijda
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychology, Amsterdam University, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlandspn_frijda@macmail.psy.uva.nl
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Abstract

The book contains a masterly review of Rolls's single-neuron research reflecting rewards. It places that research in the context of the neo-behaviorist theory of emotions. That theory provides a useful first approximation to emotion-eliciting conditions but has little to tell about emotions as motivational states or response dispositions: nor does it give a rationale for what are considered to be primary rewarding stimuli.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 199 - 200
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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