Fri, Mar 9, 2007 at 3:11 PM
Emotion, by definition, is a reaction to event which is relevant to self or what oneself identify with.
Once emotion is activated, it seldom last shorter than the event itself. It is common that emotional reaction to a past event carry-over its effect to another event. The nature of emotion is thus a reaction to perceive harm or gain that is generalized to other event.
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