在计算机隐喻的影响下，认知加工情绪理论成为现代情绪理论的主要支柱。计算机隐喻陷入困境后，具身认知的观点逐渐被人们接纳，具身认知在情绪研究中的应用——具身的情绪可以解除情绪研究的传统局限，摆脱情绪非心即身的两难选择，从而开启了情绪研究的新范式。

Under the influence of computer metaphor ,cognitively—oriented theories of emotion have dominated the emotion .The view of embodied cognition has been accepted gradually after Computer metaphor theories are in a mess. Embodied emotion is the result of the application of embodied cognition. Embodied emotion can relax some traditional constraints, cast off fetters and handcuffs. Thus we can study emotion in a wider vision. Embodied emotion might contribute to a paradigm shift in the scientific study of emotion.