Psychophysiology Beyond Fear: What Other Contexts Teach Us about (Dys)Functions of Emotional Arousal

The quintessential emotion associated with autonomic arousal is fear—think, “fight, flight, freeze.” Here, presenters report novel findings on autonomic (largely sympathetic) arousal in other emotions important for adaptation but with less studied physiology, including diffuse negative, reward-seeking, and prosocial emotional states. Implications are discussed for functional theories of emotion.