title: The Mechanics of Emotion: The Structure of Possibility
author:  Mark P. Xu Neyer 
description: Mark P Xu Neyer is made of exploded stars, and hopes one day to return to his origins. Mark is a robot of made of meat. He tries to be Human, and sometimes succeeds. Mark is an animal that stands on two legs. He is one of many expressions of the primordial energy of the cosmos. He is not very good at cooking, but he still does it anyhow. Mark is the fourth of nine siblings. He and his wife Live in Sunnyvale with their daughter and two cats.
zlib_text: Toward a dynamic theory of emotion p. 1
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  Toward a dynamic theory of emotion:
  The component process model of affective states
  Klaus R. Scherer
  University of Geneva
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  This work was facilitated by an Academy Fellowship granted by the Stiftung Volkswagenwerk, W.
  Germany and a resident fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
  and the Humanities (NIAS). I gratefully acknowledge comments from Phoebe Ellsworth, Paul Ekman, Eva
  Aeschlimann, Theo Gehm, Ursula Hess, Arvid Kappas, Richard Lazarus, Robert Levenson, Howard
  Leventhal, Stephanie Shine, Harald Wallbott, and three anonymous reviewers.
  
  Toward a dynamic theory of emotion p. 2
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  Abstract
  Emotion is described as a phylogenetically continuous mechanism for flexible adaptation, serving the
  dual purpose of rapid preparation of appropriate responses to events and of providing opp