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Full Idea
Consider striking a blow or seeking safety unemotionally. Now consider when you act out of emotion: angrily striking the blow, or fearfully running away. The phenomenology of such actions is fundamentally different in character.
Gist of Idea
When actions are performed 'out of' emotion, they appear to be quite different
Source
Peter Goldie (The Emotions [2000], 2 'Explanation')
Book Ref
Goldie,Peter: 'The Emotions' [OUP 2002], p.40
A Reaction
True, I guess. This has the behaviourist's problem of Superactors and Superspartans, of pretended or suppressed anger or fear. There is a sliding scale from stone cold to frenzied emotion.