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Structuring an emotional world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

Jordan Grafman
Affiliation:
Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health MSC 1440, Bethesda, MD 20892-1440 jgr@box-j.nih.gov intra.ninds.nih.gov/mnb/cns/index.html

Abstract

Rolls emphasizes the role of emotion in behavior. My commentary provides some balance to that position by arguing that stored social knowledge dominates our behavior and controls emotional states, thereby reducing emotions to a subservient role in behavior.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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