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What if emotions are not universal and hardwired but exquisite acts of meaning-making specific to context and culture? Open at source

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Each emotion, furthermore, came with a distinct, brain-bound affect programme. Triggered by an external stimulus, this underlying neural mechanism would set off a cascade of prebuilt responses, including physiological changes, facial expressions, behaviour tendencies and the subjective states we commonly call feelings.

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