Ramirez, J. Martin and Cabanac, Michel (2003) Pleasure, the common currency of emotions. In Emotions Inside Out: 130 Years after Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in man and Animals. Annals New York Academy of Sciences (1000). New York Academy of Sciences, New York, pp. 293-295.
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Abstract
Pleasure/displeasure is the common currency for accessing behavior in response to the various emotions; no emotion is hedonically indifferent. The hedonic dimension is what pathognomonically defines emotion. Pleasure thus makes emotion a motivating experience.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Emotion, Cognition, Pleasure, Anger, Experience, Expression |
| Subjects: | Medical sciences > Psychology > Emotions and Aggresiveness |
| ID Code: | 9999 |
| Deposited On: | 10 Mar 2011 11:13 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2011 18:03 |
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