Unconscious Emotion
1. Piotr Winkielman
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2. Kent C. Berridge
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1. 1University of California, San Diego
2. 1University of Michigan
Abstract
Conscious feelings have traditionally been viewed as a central and
necessary ingredient of emotion.
Here we argue that emotion also can be genuinely unconscious. We
describe evidence that positive and negative reactions can be elicited
subliminally and remain inaccessible to introspection.
Despite the absence of subjective feelings in such cases, subliminally
induced affective reactions still influence people's preference
judgments and even the amount of beverage they consume.
This evidence is consistent with evolutionary considerations suggesting
that systems underlying basic affective reactions originated prior to
systems for conscious awareness.
The idea of unconscious emotion is also supported by evidence from
affective neuroscience indicating that subcortical brain systems
underlie basic "liking" reactions.
More research is needed to clarify the relations and differences between
conscious and unconscious emotion, and their underlying mechanisms.
However, even under the current state of knowledge, it appears that
processes underlying conscious feelings can become decoupled from
processes underlying emotional reactions, resulting in genuinely
unconscious emotion.
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--- In [email protected], "SteveW" <eugnostos2000@...> wrote:
> >
> > Here's a link to a video presentation by Jona Lehrer, based on the
neurological work of Antonio Demasio, on how our value decisions are
> based on mostly unconscious emotional reactions.
> http://fora.tv/2010/01/05Jonah_Lehrer_How_We_Decide
<http://fora.tv/2010/01/05Jonah_Lehrer_How_We_Decide>
> Steve
> > The crux of this argument is not WHETHER you judge things to be good
or bad, but HOW you judge things to be good or bad. If you use your
intellect, rationality (discriminating mind) to judge things you are
liable to be let down. If the judgement is coming from Buddha Mind (and
then it's not really a judgement but a 'seeing' or 'knowing') then you
will never be led astray.
> >
> > ...Bill!
