My one quibble is the “implications”. The most important implication of how emotions work in humans is that cognitive reframing is quite effective for emotional control in situations where there’s a convincing alternate framing.
Telling yourself to not be afraid isn’t useful at all, and potentially counterpreductive through the “white elephant effect”. Imagining the feeling of calm is somewhat useful (that type of direct emotional induction is under-studied but I’ve found it useful as it should be from principals of how cognitive control and imagination work). If you can reframe really effectively (e.g., convince yourself that the situation actually isn’t dangerous), that works wonders. Of course, experiential learning is even more powerful if you can arrange that.
The rest all seems just like how I’d describe it FWIW (although I did skim some). I studied affective neuroscience only in passing, and largely based on Panksepp’s work (although I did keep up a little until about 2018; there were no major theoretical challenges to this framing until at least then). So it’s not really an independent confirmation, just agreeing with how you’ve summarized it.
My one quibble is the “implications”. The most important implication of how emotions work in humans is that cognitive reframing is quite effective for emotional control in situations where there’s a convincing alternate framing.
Telling yourself to not be afraid isn’t useful at all, and potentially counterpreductive through the “white elephant effect”. Imagining the feeling of calm is somewhat useful (that type of direct emotional induction is under-studied but I’ve found it useful as it should be from principals of how cognitive control and imagination work). If you can reframe really effectively (e.g., convince yourself that the situation actually isn’t dangerous), that works wonders. Of course, experiential learning is even more powerful if you can arrange that.
The rest all seems just like how I’d describe it FWIW (although I did skim some). I studied affective neuroscience only in passing, and largely based on Panksepp’s work (although I did keep up a little until about 2018; there were no major theoretical challenges to this framing until at least then). So it’s not really an independent confirmation, just agreeing with how you’ve summarized it.