The Emotional Brain
by Laura Arendal
Emotions as they are experienced can be broken into three categories:
primary emotions
secondary emotions,
background emotions.
Primary emotions are experienced as a byproduct of a stimulus-response chain of events; these emotional responses have, to some degree, been hardwired in our brains over the course of evolution. Fear, anger, disgust, sadness, and joy are the "chairs of the board" of primary emotions, and whether or not other board members…
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