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CHAPTER FIVE FRACTAL EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE BIOLOGY OF EMOTION 1
These offerings will turn on how this ancient self-regulatory function has emerged from the self-organizing dynamics of complex adaptive systems, and how everyday feeling experiences now contain three levels of information that keep us poised on the "edge-of-chaos" -in optimal physical, mental, and spiritual states of self-balance. All of which bears directly upon how we think about the origins, features, and boundaries of personal identity, and provide new ways to interpret transpersonal ways of knowing, being, and becoming. This formerly missing science can shed new light upon the "boundaries" of identity, the cyclic cause and effect pattern of human behavior, the nature of "unconscious" processes, "collective" group dynamics, paranormal, and spiritual experiences. It can help us reframe the psychological concepts of order and disorder, as well as help us understand the role of bi-directional processing pathways, evident in conditioned attitudes, habits, immune responses, placebo (Lidstone, de la and nocebo responses (Hahn,
Emotion: The Self-regulatory Sense? (For the Psych community; 2012)
The wisdom of Jeremy Bentham (1948) has oft been quoted: "Man has been placed under the governance of two sovereign masters: pleasure and pain." A dynamic systems model broadly redefines and recasts emotion as a primary sensory system -perhaps the first sense to have emerged, serving the biological function of "self-regulation". Drawing upon the physical sciences and recent revelations from the field of epigenetics, the model suggests that human emotional perceptions provide an ongoing stream of "self-relevant" sensory information concerning optimally adaptive states between the organism and its immediate environment, along with coupled behavioral corrections that honor a universal self-regulatory logic. With its ancient substrates exemplified by the molecular circuitry in the E. coli bacterium, the model suggests that the hedonic (affective) categories emerge directly from fundamental positive and negative feedback processes, and that their good/bad binary appraisals relate to dual self-regulatory behavioral regimes -evolutionary purposes, through which organisms actively participate in natural selection, and through which humans can interpret "right" and "wrong" states of balanced being and optimal becoming. The self-regulatory sensory paradigm transcends anthropomorphism, unites divergent theoretical perspectives and isolated bodies of literature, and challenges some time-honored assumptions. Contrary to the notion that emotion must be suppressively regulated, it suggests that emotions are better understood as regulating us, providing a service crucial to all semantic language, learning systems, evaluative decisionmaking, and optimal physical, mental, and spiritual health. The implications for moral psychology are discussed.
Emotion and regulation are one!
Emotion Review, 2011
I argue that (1) emotions often are actively auto-regulating. The behavior implied by the emotional reaction bias to the eliciting event or situation modifies or terminates the situation. (2) Certain emotion components are likely to habituate dynamically, modifying the emotional states. (3) Emotions are typically intra-and interpersonal processes at the same time and modulating forces at these different levels interact. (4) Emotions are not just regulatedthey regulate. Important conclusions of my arguments are that the scientific analysis of emotion should not exclude regulatory processes and that effortful emotion regulation should be seen relative to a backdrop of auto-regulation and habituation and not the ideal notion of a neutral baseline. For all practical purposes unregulated emotion is not a realistic concept.
Facial and autonomic manifestations of the dimensional structure of emotion
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While subjects viewed and rated a series of 25 emotionally evocative slides, their heart rate and skin conductance were continuously monitored and their facial expressions were covertly videotaped. Judges subsequently viewed the videotapes and rated trial-by-trial the pleasantness and intensity of each subject's facial expressions. Both phasic skin conductance responding and judged facial intensity were curvilinearly related to self-reported pleasantness, with the largest responses occurring at both extremes of the self-report scale. In contrast, phasic cardiac reactions and judged facial pleasantness were linearly related to selfreported pleasantness; extreme pleasantness was accompanied by heart rate acceleration, and unpleasantness by cardiac deceleration. The results suggest that visceral information reflects the dimensions that underlie the organization of affects and, hence, may play a more important role in emotional experience than is assumed in a number of currently held theories of emotion.
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What seems so compelling about the regulation of emotions to researchers in many different disciplines is that within this theme, questions concerning the alleged antipodes nature and nurture or biology and culture are conflating in most obvious ways. We suspect that this is precisely the reason why emotion regulation has recently attracted such an exceptional attention in a scientific environment that is characterized by a growing interest in bridging disciplinary boundaries. Without a doubt, the topic of emotion regulation has experienced a boom at the beginning of the 21st century, with many important contributions coming from academic disciplines as diverse as psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, psychotherapy, and sociology-not to mention the more popular writings and counseling literature.
BARRET, L. F., RUSSELL, J.A (2015) The Psychological Construction of Emotion
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