2.1 Introduction: All emotions are, in essence, impulses to act, the instant plans for handling life that evolution has instilled in us. The very root of the word emotion is motere, the Latin verb “to move” plus the prefix “e”- to connote “move away” suggesting that a tendency to act is implicit in every emotion. In our emotional repertoire each emotion plays a unique role, as revealed by their distinctive biological signatures. With new methods to peer into the body and brain, researchers are discovering…
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