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One of the playwright Dennis Potter's most memorable sayings was that he thought nostalgia was a "second order emotion" – cheap, deceitful and misleading.
Alexithymic individuals were not only impaired on higher order emotion processing but also on low level early processing of emotions.
The high alexithymic group performed significantly worse on the first order emotion question of the conflicting beliefs and emotions vignettes (χ2 = 9.46, p = 0.002).
Similar results were shown by our analysis of higher order emotion dimensions [see Result section]).
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On the higher order emotion-processing task, the conflicting beliefs and emotions task, participants in the high alexithymic group displayed poor understanding of the first order emotional state.
More specifically, this finding shows that the understanding of others' regret is mediated by the reactivation of the same core cerebral regions that induce the feeling of regret in the beholder during a first person experience, hence supporting the involvement of a resonance, mirror-like, mechanism in the comprehension of the high-order emotion of regret when experienced by others.
The amygdala is commonly known for its role in higher-order emotion processing that was initially suggested by Kluver and Bucy (44) in their classical temporal lobectomy studies in rhesus monkeys, which resulted in major changes in their emotional behavior, cumulatively termed psychic blindness.
These were not movies that carried the spectator along through a clear train of events and logically ordered emotions, but movies that stopped and started, stuttered and repeated themselves.
Crucially, the judges ruled that without any risk to public order, "the emotion and the concerns arising from terrorist attacks", especially the attack in Nice on 14 July in which a lorry driver killed 86, were "not sufficient to legally justify a ban".
This was safer ground, because it wasn't Qadirah and Muhammad, and because it allowed Marvin to feel his way toward a different order of emotion.
This was safer ground, because it wasn't Qadirah and Muhammad, and because it allowed Roach to feel his way toward a different order of emotion.
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