Barbara Fredrickson, “The Science of Emotions” (Open Agenda, 2020)
New Books in Neuroscience
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The Evolution of Positive Emotions
There were theories of emotion that didn't even mention positive emotions as among the emotions. And so what what i did in a my early work is to point out that we can't use the same theoretical mould to understand the value of positive emotions. In particular, ah, the time scale is different and there's no clear action tendency that's going to save your skin right at that moment because there is no threat. Some positive emotions occur with a backdrop of threat but most often they don't.
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