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Your search for: emotions AND humans


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Books on: emotions and humans

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Encyclopedia Articles on: emotions and humans

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  • Emotion
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...determine whether a certain emotion arose before the action...role in determining emotions. Robert Plutchik developed...showing eight primary human emotions: joy, acceptance...and argued that all human emotions can be derived...contended that "basic" emotions can be quantified because all humans employ the same facial...expressing a particular emotion. Studies done by Ekman...
     
  • Hypothalamus
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...laboratory. It is thought to be involved in the expression of emotions, such as fear and rage, and in sexual behaviors. Despite its numerous vital functions, the hypothalamus in humans accounts for only 1 / 300 of total brain weight, and is about...
     
  • Psychology
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...thought processes and behavior of humans and other animals in their...thinking, learning , cognition, emotions and motivations , personality...modern psychology, where the human minds relation to the body...physiological understanding of human psychology by French philosopher...of psychology was to study human thought and behavior as a whole...
     
  • Brain
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...also serves as the site of emotions, memory, self-awareness...cavity (cranium), the adult human brain normally weighs from...more than four times that of a human. In invertebrates a group...electrochemical impulses. The human brain consists of some 10 billion...pathways. The effect is to give humans a seemingly infinite variety...
     
  • Elephant
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...shown to use infrasonic frequencies (those below the range of human hearing) for communication. The large, thin, floppy ears...smoother, ending in a single protuberance. Elephants and Humans Elephants are regarded as among the most intelligent of mammals...Training and handling take skill, as elephants have complex emotions and vary individually in temperament. African elephants are...