Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. The 1836 passage above exemplifies which of the following characteristics associated with the transcendentalist movement? The embrace of American culture and society The emphasis on emotion and instinct The embrace of Northern religious institutions The emphasis of empirical understanding over emotion

Emotion: It is defined as a composite state of feeling that results in psychological and physical changes that affect behavior and thought processes. According to David G. Meyers, a person's emotion includes expressive behaviors, conscious experience, and physiological arousal.

The three main components of emotions are physiological, cognitive, and behavioral.

Instinct describes a set of behaviors which is unlearned and being placed in motion because of the environmental trigger.