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Conceptual Act Theory of Emotion by Karen López is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document presents the Conceptual Act Theory of Emotion, which argues that emotions arise from conceptualizations of situations rather than innate brain mechanisms or appraisals alone. It tests two hypotheses: 1) Different conceptualizations of the same situation can produce different emotions. 2) Conceptualizations that produce emotions emerge from distributed neural circuits involved in perception, action, and internal states. An experiment found that brain activations for fear and anger differed depe
- Author
- Karen López
- Language
- EN