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Understanding how emotions emerge is difficult without determining what characteristic of the trigger actually triggers them. Knowing whether emotional experiences self-stabilize is difficult without remembering what other processes are set in play as the emotion emerges. It is not clear that positive feedback is required for emotion emergence or that an attractor model captures well what is happening when an emotion arises.


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