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A qualitative analysis of emotional effector patterns and their feedback

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This paper is devoted to the study of the relationship between the subjective component (feelings) and the behavioral aspect of emotions. The following emotions were studied: fear-anxiety, anger-aggression, joy-laughter, love-eroticism, love-tenderness, and sadness-tears. The observations were performed with three different groups of people: patients with anxiety neurosis, students under hypnosis, and drama students. Each emotion was characterized by a specific set of reactions in the respiratory pattern, heart activity, muscular activity, and facial expression. The feelings were correlated with the behavioral patterns and each time the behavioral patterns were interfered with a concomitant modification of the subjectivity component was observed. The direct performance of the behavioral emotional patterns in the absence of the emotogenic stimulus produced the feeling corresponding to the mimicked emotion. If the subjects were stimulated with an emotogenic stimulus during the direct performance of the behavioral patterns of another emotion, they confessed to have the feeling corresponding to the mimicked emotion, and not to the emotion belonging to the emotogenic stimulus. The role played by the feedback from the effector organs in the determination of the subjective emotional states is discussed.

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  1. Physiologisches Institut, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, German Democratic Republic

    Guy Santibanez-H. & Susana Bloch

  2. Laboratoire de Psychophysiologie Sensorielle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

    Guy Santibanez-H. & Susana Bloch

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Santibanez-H., G., Bloch, S. A qualitative analysis of emotional effector patterns and their feedback. Pav. J. Biol. Sci. 21, 108–116 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02699344

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