Moreover, the suggestion of relatively greater right-sided insula activation is consistent with the lateralization of feelings hypothesis, which suggests that right-sided processing is a more energy-consuming (sympathetic) condition [21].
The Risk-as-feeling hypothesis proposes that negative affect and cognitive risk evaluations are inter-correlated but divergently influencing decision-making [ 39].
Loewenstein and co-workers [ 8] proposed also an alternative theoretical perspective, the risk-as-feelings hypothesis, that highlights the role of affect experienced at the moment of decision making.
The affect heuristics and risk-as-feeling hypotheses imply that affect quickly and more efficiently guides cognitive risk analysis and behavior [ 13- 15].
We tested the hypothesis that feeling alone is associated with the rate of motor decline in community-dwelling older persons.
To test the hypothesis that feeling alone is associated with the rate of motor decline in old age, we used data from 985 older participants in the Rush Memory and Aging Project who underwent annual detailed examinations for up to 12 years[ 27].
It allows us to reduce our negative feelings (aversive arousal reduction hypothesis), to avoid "punishment," or to gain specific internal or external "rewards" (empathy-specific punishment and empathy-specific reward hypotheses).
On the other hand, collective societies with more flexible levels of relationships tend to place greater value on the indirect expression of feelings (idiom of distress hypothesis) [ 39].
Based on a large number of experimental studies, Batson has proposed the empathy-altruism hypothesis in which feeling empathy for another provokes a desire to help him or her [20].
These findings provide some support for the sensitivity hypothesis in that feeling buzzed was associated with increased odds of transitioning to regular smoking, particularly when respondents did not experience any of the pleasant sensations.
Similarly to the psycho-historical theory of artefact appreciation (Bullot and Reber 2013a: p. 132, b: p. 169), the psycho-historical theory also suggests a hypothesis about historical feelings in agent-identification based on heuristics and explanations.
