| Blood, sweat, and fears: the autonomic architecture of emotion. | |
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PMID: 14766648 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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The autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays a critical role in emotion, providing metabolic support for adaptive action, generating appearance changes with high signal value for conspecifics, and producing visceral sensations that shape subjective emotional experience. In this chapter, I consider several of the most important ways that the ANS is involved in emotion, including: (a) peripheral activation of emotion; (b) autonomic influences on emotional language and the labeling of subjective emotional experience; (c) positive emotion and autonomic soothing; (d) expressive signs of autonomic origin; (e) autonomic substrates of emotional contagion and empathy; and (f) autonomic consequences of emotion regulation. For each, I describe relevant research from our laboratory and discuss implications for an evolutionary account of emotion. In these and many other ways the autonomic architecture of human emotion has evolved not only to move blood and tears in the service of fears, but also to provide us with a rich set of tools that help us communicate and signal the nature of our internal emotional experiences, understand the emotions of others, calm ourselves and others, and give us some modicum of control over harmful and unproductive emotions. |
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Authors:
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Robert W Levenson |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume: 1000 ISSN: 0077-8923 ISO Abbreviation: Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. Publication Date: 2003 Dec |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2004-02-09 Completed Date: 2004-03-26 Revised Date: 2007-11-14 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 7506858 Medline TA: Ann N Y Acad Sci Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 348-66 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-1650, USA. boblev@socrates.berkeley.edu |
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Affect* Autonomic Nervous System / physiology* Blood Pressure / physiology* Empathy Fear* Humans Language Sweat* |
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ID/Acronym/Agency:
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AG17766/AG/NIA NIH HHS; AG19724/AG/NIA NIH HHS; MH50841/MH/NIMH NIH HHS |
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