Embodied emotions: The Bodily reaction component1

Scherer, Klaus; Fontaine, Johnny

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199592746.003.0010

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“…The emotions operate as felt forms of engagement — embodied organismic relations between a person’s motives and circumstances. As shown in Figure 1, different (1) motive–event relations generate patterns of (2) bodily (Ekman, Levinson, & Friesen, 1983; Friedman, 2010; Scherer & Fontaine, 2013) and affective (feeling-producing; de Rivera, 2006) activity that are revealed in different configurations of (3) expressive (Ekman, 1993) and instrumental (Frijda, 2004) acts. The initial registration of motive-relevant relations typically operates outside of consciousness.…”

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A Relational Conception of Emotional Development

Mascolo

2020

Emotion Review

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In this article, I outline a relational-developmental conception of emotion that situates emotional activity within a broader conception of persons as holistic, relational beings. In this model, emotions consist of felt forms of engagement with the world. As felt aspects of ongoing action, uninhibited emotional experiences are not private states that are inaccessible to other people; instead, they are revealed directly through their bodily expressions. As multicomponent processes, emotional experiences exhibit both continuity and dramatic change in development. Building on these ideas, I describe an intersubjective methodology for studying developmental changes in the structure of emotional experience. I illustrate the approach with an analysis of developmental changes in the structure of anger from birth to adulthood.

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