Posted by alexandra_k2 on December 20, 2005, at 19:33:10
In reply to Re: emotional encapsulation » Dinah, posted by alexandra_k2 on December 20, 2005, at 19:30:11
which is just to say that...
IF the phobic people felt fear in response to the pic...
THEN fear response need not result from cognitive awareness / appraisal.but perhaps... fear *just is* the result of cognitive awareness / appraisal about the harmful nature of the stimuli...
in which case these people did not experience fear (by definition)here... we need to make a decision.
do we revise the concept of fear so that it need not be produced by cognitive awareness / appraisal...
or do we simply say that one cannot experience fear when there is no cognitive awareness / appraisal in which case whatever was going on for these people with the heightened SGR it wasn't fear...decisions...
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