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To What Extent Can Emotion Be Viewed As A Biological Phenomenon?
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To What Extent Can Emotion Be Viewed As A Biological Phenomenon? Emotion is a complex condition, yet it is one of the most basic feelings that a human can experience. It is closely related to the theory of motives such as hunger and sex. Emotions like joy and anger can activate and direct behaviour in the same way that motives can, and have often been known to accompany motivated behaviour. So emotions and motives are similar, but emotions are distinctive due to the fact that they are triggered from the outside and are usually aroused by external events. Emotional reactions are aimed at these types of events. Alternatively, motives are activated from within, and are generally aroused by internal events and are directed naturally. Fridja in 1986 and Lazarus in 1991 state that an emotion arises in response to certain affectively toned experiences, and that an intense emotion contains at...
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