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The research in the preceding chapter indicated that physical symptoms can be organized into higher order categories such as emotions. The symptoms, then, can work as elements or building blocks in the construction of bodily state. A perplexing finding that hinders our understanding of the cognitive organization idea is that—to this point— we have not found strong physiological correlates of specific symptoms or symptom constellations. Although it was hypothesized that the original organization of symptoms into emotional categories was based on physiological and motoric activity during times of extreme emotions, the day-to-day perception of moods or symptoms reflected an inference process.
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Pennebaker, J.W. (1982). Cognitive Organization II: Blood Pressure and Blood Glucose. In: The Psychology of Physical Symptoms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8196-9_6
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