
The Hot-Cold Empathy Gap
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What Is the Difference Between Affective State of Cold and Hot?
Being in a state of fear is hot. But from aristotle's point of view, being in aState of fear would be cold. An affect sort of becomes your person when you are in it. You might think of affective states as a kind of mode the brain can occupy. And then within that mode, nearly everything the brain does works a little bit differently than it does in other affective states. Be not just a thing you feel in your brain, but a sort of mode that takes over your entire brain.
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