Are Emotions Natural Kinds After All? Rethinking the Issue of Response Coherence.

ABSTRACT: The synchronized co-activation of multiple responses-motivational, behavioral, and physiological-has been taken as a defining feature of emotion. Such response coherence has been observed inconsistently however, and this has led some to view emotion programs as lacking biological reality. Yet, response coherence is not always expected or desirable if an emotion program is to carry out its adaptive function. Rather, the hallmark of emotion is the capacity to orchestrate multiple mechanisms adaptively-responses will co-activate in stereotypical fashion or not depending on how the emotion orchestrator interacts with the situation. Nevertheless, might responses cohere in the general case where input variables are specified minimally? Here we focus on shame as a case study. We measure participa

SUBMITTER: Sznycer D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10355299 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature