Is It My Beliefs That Regulate My Emotions?

It isn't my beliefs right now that are regulating my emotion. It's the fact that i'm acting out those beliefs, which include implicit ceptions. I'm acting them out, and so are you. So it's the match between my belief system and the way everyone else is acting that's regulating my emotions. And if you understand this, then you understand more why people are willing to fight to the bitter end to protect their culture. They're protecting a psychological structure and a sociological structure simultaneously....