Conceptual framework links emotions to cognitive processes, suggesting a unified theory of human experience.
This conceptual paper posits the 'Significance Hypothesis', which argues that certain human emotions (e.g. love, fear, anger) are cognitive labels attached to an underlying primary, undifferentiated state of somatic activation called 'Significance Activation'. By integrating predictive processing with developmental psychology, this theory links emotional experience, cognitive learning, and schema destabilisation together under a single umbrella process.
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Adviti Koneru (2026) studied this question.
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