>A useful new reference in this area [Values and emotions] is
>D'amasio, Antonio R.
>Descartes' Error, Emotion, Reason & the Human Brain
>N.Y. Grosset/Putnam (1994)
>Which summarizes the brain physiology emotion as a component
>of cognition research results more or less to date. . . .
Thanks for the recommendation, which I will follow up. However an emphasis
on brain physiology, which does not lack for attention, is not one I had
intended to explore further. What I have become more interested in are the
language-related and higher levels of control which operate by applying
criteria related to social and integrative purposes and values. The
_value_ concomitants of emotion, it seems to me, must be removed by many
levels of feedback and control, and to that extent must be somewhat remote
from specifics of brain physiology and direct experimental measurements,
valuable as these may be. I would also think that actual values, e.g. as
manifested in social behavior, are likely to be poorly correlated with
language in many individuals. However I will pursue the references with
interest, to learn what I can!
Cheers and best wishes.
Bruce Buchanan