"A Psychologist Rethinks Human Emotion"

Article and introduction courtesy of The Browser:

Is it possible that we fundamentally misrepresent our own feelings? When we talk about emotions, what we talk about is mainly behavior and physiology — reflexes, reactions, stylized body language. But what are we feeling at such times? "The universal components of human experience are not emotions, but changes on a continuum of arousal on the one hand, and pleasantness and unpleasantness on the other" (1,880 words)...CONTINUE READING...

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