... reactions to stress include anxiety, anger, aggression, apathy, depression and cognitive impairment. Lazarus points out that individuals differ in terms of what they perceive as stressors and his research shows how individuals appraise events is an important predictor of how they react accordingly. His experiment showed films of emotionally arousing incidents such as events leading to sawmill accidents. According to the psychophysiological arousal (sweating measured by galvanic skin response) the anticipation of the gruesome event rather than viewing the accident itself, caused most arousal in subjects. Showing what we think and believe alters emotion. The amygdala amongst the ANS response is dedicated to appraising emotional stimuli. Adolps, Tranel and Damasio (1998) report a recent study on the role of the amygdala, where they questio whether individuals appraisal of emotion can inluence heir personality.hey found patiens with isolaed bilateal destruction of the amygdala with a history of personal and social inadequacies were unable to ...

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