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Appraisal, Knowledge, and Experience
CONTENTS
Historical Background and Concepts
Primary Appraisals, Good and Bad
Which is Stronger, the Good or the Bad?
Cultural Variation in Appraisal
A Third Phase of Appraisal: Verbal Sharing
Concepts of Emotion as Prototypes
Categorical Properties of Emotion Knowledge
Measuring Emotional Experience
Specific Emotions and Core Affect
FIGURE 7.0 Diagram from Descartes's book, Traité de l'homme, showing how the soul—which can be moved by emotions—can open valves to let vital fluids from the reservoir (labeled F) into the tubes to work the muscles and produce actions. The Granger Collection, New York
Herein too may be felt the powerlessness of mere Logic … to resolve these problems which lie nearer to our hearts.
(George Boole, 1854, An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, p. 416)
In 1961, a patient with epilepsy—a kind of electrical storm in the brain—had an operation to separate the left side of the cortex from the right, and hence to stop the spread of epileptic disturbances. (No other treatment had been effective.) This procedure is called a split brain operation, and in it the corpus callosum, a large bundle of nerve fibers that connects the ...
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