Jochen, I tend to think of emotions as regulations. What makes them vary among people is that people live in different worlds (well, different "slices" of the same world) and have different regulator set points, determined both by their experience and innate physiology.
I will have a look at the post. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([email protected]) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > [Original Message] > From: Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Date: 4/4/2010 8:27:05 AM > Subject: [FRIAM] Emotions as Adaptation > > Do you think that the high diversity of individual emotions, > can be considered as an evolutionary adaptation ? I have > written a short post about it, which tries to summarize > some thoughts of Frijda, Smith and Lazarus. Do > you agree with Lazarus' "Core Relational Themes" ? > http://blog.cas-group.net/2010/04/emotions-as-adaptation/ > > -J. > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
