Emotional Experience

A Emotional Experience is a psychological process that enables conscious awareness of emotional states and their subjective interpretations.

• AKA: Felt Emotion, Emotional Episode, Affective Experience, Emotional Event.
• Context:
  • It can typically involve Primary Emotion through neural pathways and physiological responses.
  • It can typically generate Conscious Awareness through emotional perception and cognitive processing.
  • It can typically influence Behavioral Response through action tendencys and coping mechanisms.
  • It can typically create Memory Formation through emotional encoding and experiential learning.
  • It can typically shape Social Response through emotional expression and interpersonal communication.
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  • It can often trigger Secondary Emotion through cognitive appraisal and social context.
  • It can often modulate Attention Process through emotional salience and attentional bias.
  • It can often shape Decision Making through emotional valence and motivational states.
  • It can often facilitate Learning Process through emotional memory and experiential encoding.
  • It can often guide Social Behavior through emotional contagion and empathic resonance.
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  • It can range from being a Momentary Emotional Experience to being a Sustained Emotional Experience, depending on its temporal duration.
  • It can range from being a Simple Emotional Experience to being a Complex Emotional Experience, depending on its cognitive complexity.
  • It can range from being a Mild Emotional Experience to being an Intense Emotional Experience, depending on its activation level.
  • It can range from being a Personal Emotional Experience to being a Shared Emotional Experience, depending on its social context.
  • It can range from being a Pleasant Emotional Experience to being an Unpleasant Emotional Experience, depending on its hedonic quality.
  • It can range from being a Conscious Emotional Experience to being an Unconscious Emotional Experience, depending on its awareness level.
  • It can range from being a Regulated Emotional Experience to being an Unregulated Emotional Experience, depending on its control degree.
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  • It can interact with Memory Systems for experiential storage and emotional recall.
  • It can integrate with Cognitive Processes for emotional regulation and affect control.
  • It can influence Social Interactions through emotional expression and affective communication.
  • It can impact Decision Processes through emotional evaluation and intuitive judgment.
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• Examples:
  • Basic Emotional Experiences, such as:
    • Primary Emotional Experiences, such as:
      • Joy Experience Process for reward recognition.
      • Fear Experience Process for threat detection.
      • Anger Experience Process for goal obstruction.
      • Sadness Experience Process for loss recognition.
    • Secondary Emotional Experiences, such as:
      • Pride Experience Process for achievement recognition.
      • Shame Experience Process for social judgment.
      • Guilt Experience Process for moral transgression.
      • Envy Experience Process for social comparison.
  • Complex Emotional Experiences, such as:
    • Mixed Emotional Experiences, such as:
      • Bittersweet Experience Process for ambivalent situation.
      • Nostalgic Experience Process for memory reflection.
      • Gratitude Experience Process for benefit recognition.
      • Awe Experience Process for transcendent perception.
    • Social Emotional Experiences, such as:
      • Empathic Experience Process for emotional resonance.
      • Compassion Experience Process for suffering recognition.
      • Love Experience Process for attachment formation.
      • Trust Experience Process for social bonding.
  • Temporal Emotional Experiences, such as:
    • Acute Emotional Experiences, such as:
      • Crisis Experience Process for emergency response.
      • Peak Experience Process for optimal state.
    • Chronic Emotional Experiences, such as:
      • Mood Experience Process for sustained affect.
      • Stress Experience Process for prolonged pressure.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Cognitive Process, which lacks emotional components.
  • Physical Sensation Process, which lacks affective meaning.
  • Behavioral Response Process, which lacks conscious feeling.
  • Autonomic Process, which lacks experiential awareness.
• See: Emotional Processing, Affective Process, Mood Experience, Feeling Process, Emotional Memory Process, Emotional Regulation Process.

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