Emotion

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According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, a feeling is "a self-contained phenomenal experience"; feelings are "subjective, evaluative, and independent of the sensations, thoughts, or images evoking them". The term feeling is closely related to, but not the same as, emotion. Feeling may, for instance, refer to the conscious subjective experience of emotions. The study of subjective experiences is called phenomenology. Psychotherapy generally involves a therapist helping a client understand, articulate, and learn to effectively regulate the client's own feelings, and ultimately to take resp

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Catharsis or katharsis is from the Ancient Greek word , , meaning 'purification' or 'cleansing', commonly used to refer to the purification and purgation of thoughts and emotions by way of expressing them. The desired result is an emotional state of renewal and restoration.

motions or positions of subcutaneous human face muscles, conveying emotional state

thumb|right|A woman blushing and covering her face Blushing or erubescence is the reddening of a person's face due to psychological reasons. It is normally involuntary and triggered by emotional stress associated with passion, embarrassment, shyness, fear, anger, or romantic stimulation.

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Pathos is a Greek term referring to appeal to the emotions and ideals of the audience, eliciting feelings that already reside in them. Pathos is most often used in rhetoric, in which it is considered one of the three modes of persuasion, alongside ethos and logos. It is also used as in literature, film and other narrative art.

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Neuroticism or negativity is a personality trait associated with negative emotions. It is one of the Big Five traits. People high in neuroticism experience negative emotions like fear, anger, shame, envy, or depression more often and more intensely than those who score low on neuroticism. Highly neurotic people have more trouble coping with stressful events, are more likely to insult or lash out at others, and are more likely to interpret ordinary situations (like minor frustrations) as hopelessly difficult. Neuroticism is closely-related to mood disorders such as anxiety and depression.

Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional attitudes. Hence, it is colloquially known as the hurrah/boo theory. Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism in the 20th century, the theory was stated vividly by A. J. Ayer in his 1936 book Language, Truth and Logic, but its development owes more to C. L. Stevenson.

Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations while the person or animal actively maintains the experience, and is associated with enjoyment, happiness, laughter and pleasure. It is an emotion with positive valence and high physiological arousal.

form of pseudoscientific counseling intervention that stimulates acupressure points while focusing on traumatic situations

theory in Psychology

thumb|Child having a tantrum thumb|"Christina Rossetti in a Tantrum" by her brother, [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]] A tantrum, conniption, angry outburst, temper tantrum, lash out, meltdown, fit of anger, or hissy fit is an emotional outburst, usually associated with those in emotional distress. It is typically characterized by stubbornness, crying, screaming, violence, defiance, angry ranting, a resistance to attempts at pacification, and in some cases, hitting or bullying and other physically violent behavior. Physical control may be lost; the person may be unable to remain still; and even if th

difficulty controlling and moderating one's emotional reactions

process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job

thumb|Microexpressions of emotions (in order: surprise, fear/shock, sadness, anger, happiness and disgust)

In the context of caregiving, neglect is a form of abuse where the perpetrator, who is responsible for caring for someone who is unable to care for themselves, fails to do so. It can be a result of carelessness, indifference, or unwillingness and abuse.

psychological ability to respond to the ongoing demands of experience with the range of emotions in a manner that is socially tolerable and sufficiently flexible

Lovesickness is the mental state brought on by the personal experience of unrequited love, or unrequited limerence (also known as infatuated love or being smitten).: "The English language lacked a noun singular for the state of being love smitten, or having fallen in love, until Dorothy Tennov (1979) coined the term, limerence, to fill the void. It is formally defined as follows:

essay by René Descartes

thumb|Title page of the first edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke, 1689. thumb|Emma Hamilton as Sensibility. Stipple engraving, 1789, after a painting by George Romney. Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another. This concept emerged in eighteenth-century Britain, and was closely associated with studies of sense perception as the means through which knowledge is gathered. It also became associated with sentimental moral philosophy.

emotional aspects of an intimate relationship

280px|thumb|Excited audience members in Australia Stimulation is the encouragement of development or the cause of activity in general. For example, "The press provides stimulation of political discourse." An engaging activity can be described as "stimulating", regardless of its physical effects on senses. Stimulate means to act as a stimulus to; stimulus means something that rouses the recipient to activity; stimuli is the plural of stimulus.

aspect of history

study of the neural mechanisms of emotion

condition characterized by emotional and physical exhaustion leading to a diminished ability to empathize or feel compassion for others, sometimes described as the negative cost of caring or referred to as secondary traumatic stress

term in psychology referring to the experience of feeling close and connected to others

psychological theory

unpleasant feeling of a psychological nature

subjective emotional state

branch of sociology

psychotherapy model and technique

hypothesis

critical factors contributing to the emotional enhancement effect on human memory

program for those seeking to improve their mental or emotional health

Being lovestruck means having mental and physical symptoms associated with falling in love: "Love-struck ... means to be hit by love ... you are hit in your heart by the emotion of love".

specific domain of child development

behaviors that communicate an emotional state or attitude

inability to connect to others on an emotional level

Anthropopathism (from Greek ἄνθρωπος anthropos, "human" and πάθος pathos, "suffering") is the attribution of human emotions, or the ascription of human feelings or passions to a non-human being, generally to a deity.

process of identifying human emotion

displaying fortitude and stoicism in the face of adversity; exercising great self-restraint in the expression of emotion

English expression

contrast of one emotion from another

emotion that influences moral judgements or decisions

sudden death as brought about by a strong emotional shock, such as fear

thumbnail|Smile, depicting joy (Ximena Navarrete, [[Miss Universe 2010)]] thumbnail|Wide eyes and raised eyebrows are common indicators of surprise (Figure 20 from Charles Darwin's [[The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals)]] Emotionality is the observable behavioral and physiological component of emotion. It is a measure of a person's emotional reactivity to a stimulus. Most of these responses can be observed by other people, while some emotional responses can only be observed by the person experiencing them. Observable responses to emotion (i.e., smiling) do not have a single meani

psychological relationship between human affect and music

development of AI systems that are able to detect and respond to human emotions in an empathic way

emotions that are felt in response to aesthetic objects

emotion elicited by witnessing acts of remarkable moral goodness

scientific theory (psychology)

various forms of emotional suffering in Stoicism

overview about sleep and emotions