FEELING AND EMOTION' Simple feelings are either pleasant or unpleasant. The classification given here is of complex feelings which include sensory, ideational, and volitional elements in addition to the affective elements.' It is now generally believed by physiologists, neurologists, and physiological psychologists that simple affective experience (feeling or affection) is largely, if not wholly, thalamic rather than cortical.
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