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What is emotion?
Reaction triad
Psychological arousal, motor expression, and subjective feeling The full impact of emotions are only realized when they are sensed and become feelings
Secondary
Emotion through experience - social construction
Emotional response
We can predict emotional responses when we assume that some are grounded in mechanisms which are not voluntary and are under only limited human control
The law of concern
Emotional response events which support or challenge our preferred sense of self
Preference formation
Self illusion
Imagination and fantasy can overwhelm reason
Self focus
Our assessment is more about us than it is about what is being assessed
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