emotional action tendency

ID
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MFOEM:000007

Curation status
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Published
Created
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24 Aug '22

Modified
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13 May '24

Parents
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Definition
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A <bodily disposition> to behaviour that inheres in an organism by virtue of the physical changes brought about by an emotion process.

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Informal definition
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A tendency to enact a behaviour that is experienced during or after an emotion.

Comment
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Emotional action tendency involves dispositions that proceed a behaviour relating to emotions. For instance, fight or flight action tendencies influence a person's behaviour in response to a threat.

Examples
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Flight and fight action tendencies

Fuzzy set
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No

BCIO lower level ontology
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Mechanisms of Action