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Autonomic Self-Perception and Emotion

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Sociophysiology

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The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the role of autonomic activity and its perception in the experience and expression of emotion. Although there are many cogent theoretical approaches to the study of emotion, ranging from the purely neurophysiological to the purely cognitive, the focus of this chapter will be on work that has emerged from social psychological explanations of emotional behavior.

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    William M. Waid

  2. New Jersey Psychological Institute, 93 West Main Street, Freehold, New Jersey, 07728, USA

    William M. Waid

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Katkin, E.S., Blascovich, J., Koenigsberg, M.R. (1984). Autonomic Self-Perception and Emotion. In: Waid, W.M. (eds) Sociophysiology. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5202-3_5

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