Emotional Feeling

A Emotional Feeling is a subjective component that provides conscious experience of emotional states (through phenomenological awareness and affective quality).

• AKA: Felt Emotion, Emotional Sensation, Subjective Feeling.
• Context:
  • It can typically generate Conscious Awareness through emotional perception and felt sensation.
  • It can typically maintain Affective Quality through experiential intensity and hedonic tone.
  • It can typically influence Subjective Experience through phenomenal character and qualitative feel.
  • It can typically provide Emotional Information through interoceptive awareness and bodily sensation.
  • It can typically shape Personal Experience through felt meaning and emotional resonance.
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  • It can often modulate Emotional Recognition through feeling identification and emotional labeling.
  • It can often facilitate Emotional Understanding through felt interpretation and experiential learning.
  • It can often guide Behavioral Response through feeling-based motivation and action tendency.
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  • It can range from being a Subtle Feeling to being an Intense Feeling, depending on its experiential intensity.
  • It can range from being a Simple Feeling to being a Complex Feeling, depending on its phenomenological complexity.
  • It can range from being a Pleasant Feeling to being an Unpleasant Feeling, depending on its hedonic valence.
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  • It can interact with Body States through physiological feedback.
  • It can integrate with Cognitive Processes for emotional comprehension.
  • It can influence Decision Making through intuitive guidance.
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• Examples:
  • Basic Feelings, such as:
    • Primary Feelings, such as:
      • Fear Feeling during threat detection.
      • Joy Feeling during reward experience.
      • Anger Feeling during frustration response.
    • Secondary Feelings, such as:
      • Pride Feeling during achievement recognition.
      • Shame Feeling during social judgment.
  • Complex Feelings, such as:
    • Mixed Feelings, such as:
      • Bittersweet Feeling during ambivalent experience.
      • Nostalgic Feeling during memory recall.
    • Social Feelings, such as:
      • Empathic Feeling during emotional resonance.
      • Lonely Feeling during social isolation.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Emotional Thought, which lacks felt quality.
  • Physical Sensation, which lacks emotional content.
  • Behavioral Response, which lacks phenomenological awareness.
• See: Emotional Experience, Emotional State, Subjective Experience, Phenomenological Awareness, Affective Quality.

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