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Emotions are physical and
mental state A mental state, or a mental property, is a state of mind of a person. Mental states comprise a diverse class, including perception, pain/pleasure experience, belief, desire, intention, emotion, and memory. There is controversy concerning the exact ...
s brought on by
neurophysiological Neurophysiology is a branch of physiology and neuroscience concerned with the functions of the nervous system and their mechanisms. The term ''neurophysiology'' originates from the Greek word ''νεῦρον'' ("nerve") and ''physiology'' (whic ...
changes, variously associated with
thought In their most common sense, the terms thought and thinking refer to cognitive processes that can happen independently of sensory stimulation. Their most paradigmatic forms are judging, reasoning, concept formation, problem solving, and de ...
s,
feelings 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 closel ...
, behavioral responses, and a degree of
pleasure Pleasure is experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of something. It contrasts with pain or suffering, which are forms of feeling bad. It is closely related to value, desire and action: humans and other conscious animals find ...
or
displeasure {{Short pages monitor * Jesse Prinz – American philosopher who specializes in emotion, moral psychology, aesthetics and consciousness * James A. Russell (born 1947) – American psychologist who developed or co-developed the PAD theory of environmental impact, circumplex model of affect, prototype theory of emotion concepts, a critique of the hypothesis of universal recognition of emotion from facial expression, concept of core affect, developmental theory of differentiation of emotion concepts, and, more recently, the theory of the psychological construction of emotion * Klaus Scherer (born 1943) – Swiss psychologist and former director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva; he specializes in the psychology of emotion *
Ronald de Sousa Ronald Bon de Sousa Pernes ( ; born 1940) is a Swiss-born Canadian philosopher and academic. He is an emeritus professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto, which he joined in 1966. Biography De Sousa possesses both UK ...
(born 1940) – English–Canadian philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of emotions, philosophy of mind and philosophy of biology * Jonathan H. Turner (born 1942) – American sociologist from the
University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Riverside, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of Cali ...
, who is a general sociological theorist with specialty areas including the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institutions, social stratification, and bio-sociology *
Dominique Moïsi Dominique Moïsi (born 21 October 1946) is a French political scientist and writer. He was a co-founder and is a senior advisor of the Paris-based Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), ''Pierre Keller Visiting Professor'' at H ...
(born 1946) – authored a book titled ''The Geopolitics of Emotion'' focusing on emotions related to globalization


See also

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Affect measures Affect measures (measures of affect or measures of emotion) are used in the study of human affect (including emotions and mood), and refer to measures obtained from self-report studies asking participants to quantify their current feelings or a ...
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Affective forecasting Affective forecasting, also known as hedonic forecasting or the hedonic forecasting mechanism, is the prediction of one's affect (emotional state) in the future. As a process that influences preferences, decisions, and behavior, affective forec ...
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Affective neuroscience Affective neuroscience is the study of how the brain processes emotions. This field combines neuroscience with the psychological study of personality, emotion, and mood. The basis of emotions and what emotions are remains an issue of debate wit ...
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Coping Coping refers to conscious or unconscious strategies used to reduce and manage unpleasant emotions. Coping strategies can be cognitions or behaviors and can be individual or social. To cope is to deal with struggles and difficulties in life. It ...
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Emotion and memory Emotion can have a powerful effect on humans and animals. Numerous studies have shown that the most vivid autobiographical memories tend to be of emotional events, which are likely to be recalled more often and with more clarity and detail tha ...
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Emotional intelligence Emotional intelligence (EI), also known as emotional quotient (EQ), is the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions. High emotional intelligence includes emotional recognition of emotions of the self and others, using ...
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Emotional isolation Emotional isolation is a state of isolation where one may have an extensive or reliably available social network but still feels emotionally separated from others. Population-based research indicates that one in five middle-aged and elderly men ...
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Emotionally focused therapy Emotionally focused therapy and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) are related Humanistic psychology, humanistic approaches to psychotherapy that aim to resolve emotional and relationship issues with individuals, couples, and families. These therapies ...
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Facial feedback hypothesis The facial feedback hypothesis, rooted in the conjectures of Charles Darwin and William James, is that one's facial expression directly affects their emotional experience. Specifically, physiological activation of the facial regions associated wit ...
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Fuzzy-trace theory Fuzzy-trace theory (FTT) is a theory of cognition originally proposed by Valerie F. Reyna and Charles Brainerd to explain cognitive phenomena, particularly in memory and reasoning. FTT posits two types of memory processes (verbatim and gist) and, ...
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Group emotion Group emotion refers to the moods, emotions and dispositional affects of a group of people. It can be seen as either an emotional entity influencing individual members' emotional states (top down) or the sum of the individuals' emotional states ...
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Moral emotions Moral emotions are a variety of social emotions that are involved in forming and communicating moral judgments and decisions, and in motivating behavioral responses to one's own and others' moral behavior. As defined by Jonathan Haidt, moral emo ...
* Social sharing of emotions * Two-factor theory of emotion * Kuleshov effect


References


Further reading

* * Glinka, Lukasz Andrzej (2013) ''Theorizing Emotions: A Brief Study of Psychological, Philosophical, and Cultural Aspects of Human Emotions''. Great Abington: Cambridge International Science Publishing. . * Dana Sugu & Amita Chaterje
"Flashback: Reshuffling Emotions"
, ''International Journal on Humanistic Ideology'', Vol. 3 No. 1, Spring–Summer 2010. * Cornelius, R. (1996). ''The science of emotion''. New Jersey:
Prentice Hall Prentice Hall was a major American publishing#Textbook_publishing, educational publisher. It published print and digital content for the 6–12 and higher-education market. It was an independent company throughout the bulk of the twentieth cen ...
. * * González, Ana Marta (2012). ''The Emotions and Cultural Analysis''. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. * Ekman, P. (1999).
Basic Emotions
. In: T. Dalgleish and M. Power (Eds.). ''Handbook of Cognition and Emotion''. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Sussex, UK:. * Frijda, N.H. (1986). ''The Emotions''. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme an
Cambridge University Press
* * Hogan, Patrick Colm. (2011)
''What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion''
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * Hordern, Joshua. (2013)
''Political Affections: Civic Participation and Moral Theology''
Oxford: Oxford University Press. * LeDoux, J.E. (1986). "The neurobiology of emotion". Chap. 15 in J.E. LeDoux & W. Hirst (Eds.) ''Mind and Brain: dialogues in cognitive neuroscience''. New York: Cambridge. * Mandler, G. (1984). ''Mind and Body: Psychology of emotion and stress''. New York: Norton
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* * Plutchik, R. (1980). "A general psychoevolutionary theory of emotion". In R. Plutchik & H. Kellerman (Eds.), ''Emotion: Theory, research, and experience: Vol. 1. Theories of emotion'' (pp.3–33). New York: Academic. * Roberts, Robert. (2003). ''Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * * * Solomon, R. (1993). ''The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life''. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. * * Wikibook Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience


External links

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About Emotions
* W. B. Cannon (1915)
Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage: an account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement
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