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Curious emotions : roots of consciousness and personality in motivated action /

Emotion drives all cognitive processes, largely determining their qualitative feel, their structure, and in part even their content. Action-initiating centers deep in the emotional brain ground our understanding of the world by enabling us to imagine how we could act relative to it, based on endogen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ellis, Ralph D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., 2005.
Series:Advances in consciousness research ; v. 61.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Curious Emotions; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Preconscious emotional intentionality; 2. Motivated attention in action; 3. Non-consummatory motivations; 4. Homeostasis, extropy, and boundary needs as grounding specific emotions; 5. Varieties of extended self and personality; 6. Learning about emotions through the arts; 7. Dynamical systems and emotional agency; Conclusion; References; Index; The series Advances in Consciousness Research.