Fear causes fleeing and thereby saves lives: this exemplifies a popular and common sense but increasingly untenable view that the direct causation of behavior is the primary function of emotion. Instead, the authors d...
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Fear causes fleeing and thereby saves lives: this exemplifies a popular and common sense but increasingly untenable view that the direct causation of behavior is the primary function of emotion. Instead, the authors develop a theory of emotion as a feedback system whose influence on behavior is typically indirect. By providing feedback and stimulating retrospective appraisal of actions, conscious emotional states can promote learning and alter guidelines for future behavior. Behavior may also be chosen to pursue (or avoid) anticipated emotional outcomes. Rapid, automatic affective responses, in contrast to the full-blown conscious emotions, may inform cognition and behavioral choice and thereby help guide current behavior. The automatic affective responses may also remind the person of past emotional outcomes and provide useful guides as to what emotional outcomes may be anticipated in the present. To justify replacing the direct causation model with the feedback model, the authors review a large body of empirical findings.
President Reagan's proposed fiscal 1984 budget generally is good for research and development, giving most programs funding increases above the 1983 levels. One office that wouldn't fare well, however, is the ...
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President Reagan's proposed fiscal 1984 budget generally is good for research and development, giving most programs funding increases above the 1983 levels. One office that wouldn't fare well, however, is the National Bureau of Standards, which would suffer a cut to $98.7 million, down significantly from $117.9 million this year. Upset over this, the House Subcommittee on Science, Research & Technology has held hearings on the reasons for these cuts, and the consensus appears to be that much of the funds may be *** subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Doug Walgren (D.-Pa.), heard testimony from NBS officials and interested private groups on the effects cuts would have on the bureau's programs. Of particular concern was the proposal to eliminate the Fire Research Center and the Buildings Research *** are concerned over these losses because it would leave the U.S. without any centralized research in these areas. The NBS program is described as unique and ...
Human beliefs change, but so do the concepts that underpin them. The recent Abduction, Belief Revision and Conceptual Change (ABC) repair system combines several methods from automated theory repair to expand, contrac...
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