The Idea That People Experience Certain Bodily Changes as Emotions

question 118

Multiple Choice

The idea that people experience certain bodily changes as emotions, and they come to associate those changes with positive or negative contexts, is referred to as:

• A) the emotion script.
• B) the somatic marker hypothesis.
• C) the assimilation effect.
• D) the implicit association test.

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