Psychology of feelings and emotions. II. Theory of emotions
Psychology of feelings and emotions. II. Theory of emotions
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DOI:
10.1037/h0075696
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发表时间:
1933-01-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
Stagner, R
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文献类型:
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作者:
Harlow, HF;Stagner, R
A theory of emotions is presented which holds that they are derived by conditioning and hence are not innate, but have their elementary basis in the four affective states of pleasantness, unpleasantness, excitement and depression. These are conscious feelings induced by activation of sensory thalamic projection centers, and have reflex connections with various sub-cortical motor centers. In the emotion there is added to this the cognizance of the stimulating situation. Hence differentiation of specific emotions is not a matter of different motor components, but of differences in the conscious attitude taken toward the stimulus. This theory is shown to harmonize the various experimental findings of recent times with reference to the non-specificity of skeletal pattern, the possibility of dissociation of conscious and motor patterns, the absence of innate emotional patterns, the presence of both thalamic and cortical components, etc.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)