Autonomic Nervous System Activity Distinguishes Among Emotions

  • Paul Ekman
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco 94143
  • Robert W Levenson
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco 94143
  • Wallace V. Friesen
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco 94143

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<jats:p>Emotion-specific activity in the autonomic nervous system was generated by constructing facial prototypes of emotion muscle by muscle and by reliving past emotional experiences. The autonomic activity produced distinguished not only between positive and negative emotions, but also among negative emotions. This finding challenges emotion theories that have proposed autonomic activity to be undifferentiated or that have failed to address the implications of autonomic differentiation in emotion.</jats:p>

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  • Science

    Science 221 (4616), 1208-1210, 1983-09-16

    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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