Summarize the evidence concerning the physiological differences among emotions. What difficulty is associated with studying the physiological distinctiveness of emotions?
What will be an ideal response?
* Anger is often associated with cardiovascular changes.
* Heart rate increases with anger, fear, and sadness, but decreases with disgust.
* Compared to anger, fear is associated with lower blood pressure and surface temperature and less blood flow to the periphery of the body.
* Many physiological findings have also been found in other cultures.
* Blushing is a particular reaction associated with different emotional states in which the capillaries in your cheeks, ears, neck, and upper chest fill with blood, raising the temperature and making your skin feel hot.
* Emotions are generally short-lived, making their physiological reactions difficult to study.
* Every emotion does not have a unique physiological response associated with it, but some emotions do differ from one another in consistent ways.
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