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The biology of emotion is missing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Katherine Peil Kauffman Open the ORCID record for Katherine Peil Kauffman [Opens in a new window]
Katherine Peil Kauffman*
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EFS International, Kirkland, WA98033. ktpeil@outlook.comwww.emotionalsentience.com Institute of Systems Biology, Seattle, WA98109
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Abstract

Although augmenting rational models with cognitive constraints is long overdue, the emotional system – our innately evaluative “affective” constraints – is missing from the model. Factoring in the informational nature of emotional perception, its explicit self-regulatory functional logic, and the predictable pitfalls of its hardwired behavioral responses (including a maladaptive form of “identity management”) can offer dramatic enhancements.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e13
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