If we assume that animals have identical emotions to humans, perhaps we will insist on treating them as human.
Watching identical emotions played out by blonder, glossier similars recasts the experience itself and the subsequent loss of it as something else, as something so common and, yeah, mythical, that the attendant alone-feelings just wear themselves out.
The next trial started 1000 ms after the decision on the second face (Identical versus Different Emotion) was made.
All other details of the task paradigms described below were identical for the Emotion and Neutral conditions, and for both participant groups.
The telephonic pulse of the opening bars – a switchboard in music – and the great underlying melodies surging up through the orchestral texture with thrilling metropolitan energy were to us the very sound of now, the characters' emotions identical to our own.
These emotions in young infants may not be identical to similar emotional states that occur in older children or adolescents, who experience complex cognitions in concert with emotion; these are missing in the young infant.
Interestingly, the way dogs responded to negative emotion was identical whether the emotion was expressed by humans or by dogs except for freezing, which was more evident for dog sounds than human sounds.
In order to explain how different people can experience different emotions in identical situations, Lazarus argued that events are first appraised (i.e., perceived and interpreted) in terms of their personal meaning (i.e., how they relate to an individual's past experiences, personal values, and overall well-being).
Therefore my emotion cannot be identical to my bodily sensations -- for the two have different objects.
Finding the best unit of analysis has not posed a problem in studies involving acted speech with different emotions, using segmentally identical utterances, cf. for example, [27, 28].
While the phrases recorded for all emotions were not identical, they were very similar to each other and contained numerous words that were common (e.g. 'two thousand and one' and 'two thousand and twelve' or 'December second' and 'December twenty-first').
