ABSTRACT
Emotion is often closely linked to action, to behaviour, but it is not just an impulse to act, it can be much more. Emotion is linked to physiological processes, but these cannot accurately define emotion. Emotion can usually be judged by emotional expression, but this is not always the case. We can experience emotion, because of what we perceive, because of what motivates us, because of what we think, because of what we learn, because of what we remember or in most cases, because of a combination of these processes. Cognition, volition, and emotion are intertwined in most psychological events in very complex interactions. Most emotional episodes have physiological concomitants, a subjective feeling and the expression of emotion. Le Doux's work illuminates several theories of emotion: the Schachter-Singer's two factor theory of emotion, where the emotion is experienced first as a bodily reaction, and only later labelled by cognition as a specific emotion, fits with LeDoux's description of fast emotions.
