
Episode 135: The Science of Emotion
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Different Components of Emotion
There've been many other theories that have been proposed over the years. But finally one that I want to focus on here is a variation of what's called central or core emotion theories. According to these theories basically you see the bear and that activates a central emotional state which simultaneously triggers a behavior, a physiological response, a feeling of being scared and a cognition. So all of those things are kind of activated in parallel and they can interact with each other but it's not like one causes the other in some kind of linear chain like James Lang postulate. They kind of all go along together but are caused somewhat separately and have their own sort of separate neural substrate. And personally I think that this
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