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The affective neuroeconomics of social brains: One man's cruelty is another's suffering
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 August 2006
Abstract:
Cruelty does not emerge from a single emotional system of the brain. Its many cognitive aspects are intermeshed inextricably with the nature of negative affects ranging from fear to suffering. The rewards of cruelty may be counteracted by a variety of neurochemical factors as well as novel social policies.
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1. My practice of using capitalizations for emotional primes (Panksepp 1998) is to highlight that specific circuits are referents for these vernacular terms, so as to minimize mereological (part–whole) confusions. These are circuits that are critically important for certain emotions, with no implication that I am talking about all aspects of the emotional term. None is a single-chemistry system. For example, the SEEKING system is strongly aroused by dopaminergic arousal, but there are many other neural components.
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