Listening to your heart: How interoception shapes emotion experience and intuitive decision making

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1835-1844

  Dunn, Barnaby D ^a   Galton, Hannah C ^b   Morgan, Ruth ^c   Evans, Davy ^a   Oliver, Clare ^a   Meyer, Marcel ^d   Cusack, Rhodri ^a   Lawrence, Andrew D ^d   Dalgleish, Tim ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

arousal; bodily feedback; decision making; emotion; interoception; James Lange theory of emotion; somatic marker hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTUITION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTUITION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 78049515278     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610389191     Document Type: Article

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