He lived 1922 to 1997. People with high or low adrenaline have same moods and so chemical levels do not cause emotions, with Jerome Singer. Moods depend on social-situation cognition. Arousal accompanies fear, sex, anger, and elation.
Differing expected and actual perception or cognition, or interrupting perception or cognition, produces undifferentiated autonomic nervous system arousal, especially in viscera. Arousal directs more attention to environment. General visceral arousal causes the feeling of emotion.
Thought, past-experience, and environmental-signal differences cause emotion differences, not visceral-arousal differences.
Chimpanzees have a sense of self from their behavior, but no awareness of mental states. Chimpanzees look to where another is looking. Chimpanzees do not realize that others are not looking, though three-year old children do realize it in same situation.
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