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The review says amygdala activity may reflect emotional intensity rather than valence, qualifying a simple danger-scanning explanation. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Not all emotions are created equal: The negativity bias in social-emotional development · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:b6617ce71c6568d435eaa65f839613bb7b5f4f69ac20f127f01264bf4dc0fad6

although the amygdala is often found to show more activation to negative than positive stimuli, Cunningham et al. (2004) found that ... the amygdala is more involved in processing emotional intensity than valence.