Emotion
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Language
- Language provides ways to articulate subjective experience
- Basic sensations such as a fear, attraction and repulsion reflect physiological changes, e.g., heart rate, hormonal changes, imprinted responses)
- Language relates environmental stimuli to these states
- For example, "jealousy" describes a physical sensation stemming from fear responses to abandonment, rejection, and inadequacy.
- Terms describing emotions disseminate and stabilise based on cultural exchange
Animal emotions
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- Anthropomorphism assumes animals experience emotions in the same way as humans
- Their subjective experience and awareness of several complex biological systems interacting may differ
- Still, many species react to internal stimuli in predictable ways
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- Emotion is a cultural concept that relates physiological states states to external stimuli using language
- Humans possess multiple approaches (cognition (Private), memory, sentience) that enable this mental linkage
- Despite their presence in many human cultures, emotions are ambiguous and inconsistent across and within cultural groups
- Cultural norms affect how humans interpret and respond to emotions (e.g., repression, shame, guilt, ethics, law, punishment)
- Many non-human species (Private) experience predictable physiological reactions to external stimuli
- They may avoid certain stimuli (environments, predators, plants, landscape features) based on memory, instinct, environmental cues (sounds, smells, other agents), or warnings from others (bird calls).
- The key difference between an "emotion" and a "physiological response to an external stimuli" is its expression using language
- Language facilitates efficient sharing, regulation, and anticipation of physiological states and stimuli between individuals
- This distinction is arguably semantic in nature
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