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An emotion is a short-lived, multi-component response to something that matters to you — an internal thought or an external event — that involves subjective experience, bodily/physiological changes, expressive behavior, cognitive appraisal, and action tendencies.
Key components
- Subjective feeling: what it feels like (e.g., “I’m afraid”).
- Physiological arousal: heart rate, sweating, hormones.
- Expressive behavior: facial expressions, posture, voice.
- Cognitive appraisal: evaluation of the situation (threat, loss, reward).
- Action tendency: urges to act (flee, fight, approach, withdraw).
Functions: emotions help prioritize attention, prepare the body for action, communicate internal states to others, and guide decision-making and memory. Emotions differ from moods (longer, less specific) and from the term “feeling” (the conscious experience component of an emotion).
If you want, I can give examples of specific emotions, summarize major emotion theories (basic emotions vs. dimensional), or explain how to identify and regulate emotions. Which would you like?
Key components
- Subjective feeling: what it feels like (e.g., “I’m afraid”).
- Physiological arousal: heart rate, sweating, hormones.
- Expressive behavior: facial expressions, posture, voice.
- Cognitive appraisal: evaluation of the situation (threat, loss, reward).
- Action tendency: urges to act (flee, fight, approach, withdraw).
Functions: emotions help prioritize attention, prepare the body for action, communicate internal states to others, and guide decision-making and memory. Emotions differ from moods (longer, less specific) and from the term “feeling” (the conscious experience component of an emotion).
If you want, I can give examples of specific emotions, summarize major emotion theories (basic emotions vs. dimensional), or explain how to identify and regulate emotions. Which would you like?
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