Grounding emotion in situated conceptualization.

ABSTRACT: According to the Conceptual Act Theory of Emotion, the situated conceptualization used to construe a situation determines the emotion experienced. A neuroimaging experiment tested two core hypotheses of this theory: (1) different situated conceptualizations produce different forms of the same emotion in different situations, (2) the composition of a situated conceptualization emerges from shared multimodal circuitry distributed across the brain that produces emotional states generally. To test these hypotheses, the situation in which participants experienced an emotion was manipulated. On each trial, participants immersed themselves in a physical danger or social evaluation situation and then experienced fear or anger. According to Hypothesis 1, the brain activations for the same emotion s

SUBMITTER: Wilson-Mendenhall CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3078178 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature