| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Fear, rage and pain, and the pangs of hunger are all primitive experiences which human beings share with the lower animals. These experiences are properly classed as among the most powerful that determine the action of men and beasts. A knowledge of the conditions which attend these experiences, therefore, is of general and fundamental importance in the interpretation of behavior. During the past four years there has been conducted, in the Harvard Physiological Laboratory, a series of investigations concerned with the bodily changes which occur in conjunction with pain, hunger and the major emotions. A group of remarkable alterations in the bodily economy have been discovered. Because these physiological adaptations are interesting both in themselves and in their interpretation, it has seemed worth while to gather together in convenient form the original accounts of the experiments, which have been published in various American medical and physiological journals. I have, however, attempted to arrange the results and discussions in an orderly and consecutive manner, and I have tried also to eliminate or incidentally to explain the technical terms, so that the exposition will be easily understood by any intelligent reader even though not trained in the medical sciences. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-303) and index |
| Notes |
Also issued in print |
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s 2004 dcu nns |
| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO) EBSCO |
| Subject |
Adaptation (Biology)
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Emotions.
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Psychophysiology.
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Adaptation, Biological
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Emotions
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Psychophysiology
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emotion.
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Adaptation (Biology)
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Emotions
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Psychophysiology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
15009718 |
| ISBN |
9780243753864 |
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0243753861 |
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