ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors examine first the Lohorung sense of person-hood and then outline the theoretical implications of the knowledge about Lohorung emotions and mental states in terms of their ethnopsychology. They explore mental states and emotion concepts in terms of understanding the rest of the ethnography. Individual characteristics and a tendency for egocentrism and the expression of tangpam niwa are thought of as being innate: sociability and the control of self have to be learned. There are various components to the experience and expression of emotions, which include: the context or the situation of the emotion, the mental state, its behavioural expression, its physiological accompaniments and linguistic and paralinguistic expression. Lohorung recognize that an emotion is not triggered in some automatic way, simply by encountering some situation.
