Affect: Neurobiological, Psychological and Sociocultural Counterparts of "Feelings"

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9.68

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Spring 2013

Level

Undergraduate

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This course studies the relations of affect to cognition and behavior, feeling to thinking and acting, and values to beliefs and practices. These connections will be considered at the psychological level of organization and in terms of their neurobiological and sociocultural counterparts.

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Stephan Chorover. 9.68 Affect: Neurobiological, Psychological and Sociocultural Counterparts of "Feelings". Spring 2013. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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