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Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion

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Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion - Prinz, Jesse J
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Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions in a double sense. First of all, they are perceptions of changes in the body, but, through the body, they also allow us to literally perceive danger, loss, and other matters of concern. This proposal, which Prinz calls the embodied appraisal theory, reconciles the long standing debate between those who say emotions are cognitive and those who say they are noncognitive. The basic idea behind embodied appraisals is captured in the ...

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Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion 2006, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195309362

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Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion 2004, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195151459

Hardcover