An argument for basic emotions
Abstract Emotions are viewed as having evolved through their adaptive value in dealing with fundamental life-tasks. Each emotion has unique features: signal, physiology, and ant...
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Emotion-specific activity in the autonomic nervous system was generated by constructing facial prototypes of emotion muscle by muscle and by reliving past emotional experiences....
Approach-withdrawal and cerebral asymmetry: Emotional expression and brain physiology: I.
In this experiment, we combined the measurement of observable facial behavior with simultaneous measures of brain electrical activity to assess patterns of hemispheric activatio...
The Duchenne smile: Emotional expression and brain physiology: II.
Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films. Smiling in which...
Voluntary Facial Action Generates EmotionâSpecific Autonomic Nervous System Activity
ABSTRACT Four experiments were conducted to determine whether voluntarily produced emotional facial configurations are associated with differentiated patterns of autonomic activ...
Emotion, physiology, and expression in old age.
Emotion-specific autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity was studied in 20 elderly people (age 71-83 years, M = 77) who followed muscle-by-muscle instructions for constructing f...
Is the startle reaction an emotion?
In this study, we examined startle reactions in which the subjects did and did not know when a blank pistol would be fired. In addition, we asked subjects to suppress their star...
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- 14
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- University of California, San Francisco
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