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hat Are Emotions? People have an intuitive sense of what emotion means. Still, the term is difficult to define precisely. The terms emotion, feeling, and mood are often used interchangeably in everyday language, but psychologists distinguish between them. An emotion is an immediate, specific negative or positive response to environmental events or internal thoughts. Emotions typically interrupt whatever is happening, or they trig— Discuss the roles that the ger changes in thought and behavior. You are sitting at your desk and see a moveinsula a d the amygdala play ment out of the corner of your eye and ... eek, it is a rat! You are having a negative in emotional experience. emotional response. For psychologists, emotion—sometimes called affect—has three = Compare and contrast the components: a physiological process (e.g., heart beating fast, sweating), a behavioral James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, , : and Schachter-Singer two- response (e.g., eyes and mouth opening wide), and a feeling that is based on cognifactor theories of emotion. tive appraisal of the situation and interpretation of bodily states (e.g., I’m scared!). A feeling is the subjective experience of the emotion, such as feeling scared, but not the emotion itself.
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Another way to pose the question: A popular undergrad Psychology textbook defines these terms as follows, but not everyone agrees. What's wrong or missing from these definitions (that I haven't captured above)?

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endoeartha.bsky.social
This is so interesting to me bc to me, the "feeling" is the physiological sensation and the "emotion" is the cognitive appraisal of that feeling in your subjectivity.

I also read a lot of LeDoux for my PhD.
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metaphysiology.bsky.social
Relationship to memory not stated explicitly. Beyond immediate state of organism (mood, context), which emotion a given stimulus evokes will depend on prior experience of the same stimulus or similar stimuli (arguably implied in term "cognitive appraisal",but does it capture, say, stimulus fatigue?)
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timnfeinstein.bsky.social
I’m a fan of Damasio. Keeps it simple: emotions are just the brain contextualizing thing that the body already feels. I know there’s a causality isse with emotions clearly caused by conscious processing…or is there? Anyway don’t know if he’s still relevant, it’s been a while.
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hannahrsnyder.bsky.social
I think these are mostly ok but
1. Emotion definition implies tighter correlation between physiological and subjective responses than seen in human research
2. At least as used in clinical, “mood” doesn’t imply not knowing cause or only “vague awareness “ only longer duration
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