Where do emotions, feelings, and behaviors come from? Why do emotions sometimes feel like a survival event? Does your body produce emotions to help you? Is It possible to change emotions, feelings and behaviors?

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References and suggested reading/listening:

Peer Reviewed Scholarly Publications

• Carvalho, G. B., & Damasio, A. (2021). Interoception and the origin of feelings: A new synthesis. BioEssays, 43(6), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202000261

• Craig, A. D. (2003). Interoception: The sense of the physiological condition of the body. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 13(4), 500–505. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0959-4388(03)00090-4

• Fotopoulou, A., & Tsakiris, M. (2017). Mentalizing homeostasis: The social origins of interoceptive inference. Neuropsychoanalysis, 19(1), 3–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2017.1294031

• Khalsa, S. S., Adolphs, R., Cameron, O. G., Critchley, H. D., Davenport, P. W., Feinstein, J. S., Feusner, J. D., Garfinkel, S. N., Lane, R. D., Mehling, W. E., Meuret, A. E., Nemeroff, C. B., Oppenheimer, S., Petzschner, F. H., Pollatos, O., Rhudy, J. L., Schramm, L. P., Simmons, W. K., Stein, M. B., … Zucker, N. (2018). Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 3(6), 501–513. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.BPSC.2017.12.004

• Panksepp, J. (1982). Toward a general psychobiological theory of emotions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5(03), 407. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00012759

• Rhodes, K., & Rhodes, A. (2017). The pursuit of homeostasis: Closing the gap between science and practice in the treatment of aggression and violence. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 34, 9–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2017.03.003

• Tsakiris, M., & Critchley, H. (2016). Interoception beyond homeostasis: Affect, cognition and mental health. In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (Vol. 371, Issue 1708). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0002

Podcasts and interviews:

• Homeostasis Emotion and Feelings with Gil Carvalho

• Homeostasis and the origin of emotions and behavior with Max Henning

• The science of emotions: Jaak Panksepp at TEDxRainier

Media credit (photo/video/audio/animation) Sincere thanks to the following artists

Thumbnail image - Family harvesting vegetables in garden – istock.com/ RyanJLane

Anatomy person- Gerd Altmann, Pixabay

Swimming person – KONSTANIN SHISHKIN, Storyblocks

Dark theatre – malmanxx, Unsplash

Pupils dilating – PepN Stock Footage, Storyblocks

Heart beating – M.G.F.Studio, Storyblocks

Blood vessels and heart– icetray, Storyblocks

Person drinking water in hot sun – Oles Ishchuk, Storyblocks

Dad feeding baby – Prostock-studio, Storyblocks

Aligator – Dualstock, Storyblocks

Rejection in high school hallway- istock.com/FatCamera

Breeze through window - KONSTANIN SHISHKIN, Storyblocks

Friends Hugging – Cinemarketing, Storyblocks

Mom playing with child in yard – JustinHorrocks, Storyblocks

Friends laughing around fire – stockbusters, Storyblocks

Man hiking – stockbusters, Storyblocks

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