Reminds me of a neuroscience article of Berridge where he talks about emotions that we're not conscious of. I did some digging and found of articles of Berridge

Reminds me of a neuroscience article of Berridge where he talks about emotions that we're not conscious of. I did some digging and found of articles of Berridge. It seems that he mainly worked with another researcher who knows more about this: Piotr Winkielman. Berridge wrote a lot about unconscious liking and unconscious wanting. He showed that in rats there are different neural areas being activated. There is a wanting pathway and there are liking hotspots ('islands' close or on the wanting pathway). Disclaimer: bsc. psychology, typing this from memory so subtle errors are probably there. I hope the links aren't paywalled, I didn't look into it. Links: http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/13/3/120.full.pdf http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/13/3/120.full.pdf http://lsa.umich.edu/psych/research&labs/berridge/publications/Berridge%20&%20Winkielman%20unconscious%20emotion%202003.pdf http://lsa.umich.edu/psych/research&labs/berridge/publicatio... http://psy2.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel/winkielman_zajonc_ER-2010.pdf http://psy2.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel/winkielman_zajonc_ER-2010.pdf Pages of the researchers. Berridge: http://lsa.umich.edu/psych/research&labs/berridge/research/affectiveneuroscience.html http://lsa.umich.edu/psych/research&labs/berridge/research/a... Winkielman: http://winkielmanlab.ucsd.edu/ http://winkielmanlab.ucsd.edu/