Emotional State
An Emotional State is a psychological state that involves subjective experience, physiological responses, and behavioral expressions within an emotional agent.
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- It can (typically) be attained by an Emotional Agent (with a capacity for emotion).
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- It can range from being a Positive Emotional State to being a Negative Emotional State.
- It can range from being a Human Emotion, to being an Animal Emotion, to being an AI Emotion.
- It can range from being a Individual Emotion to being a Social Emotion.
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- It can be measured by an Emotional Measure.
- It can be associated with a Psychophisiological Event, such as: a Feeling of Pain, Food Savouring, or Sexual Climax.
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- Example(s):
- Positive Emotional States:
- Negative Emotional States:
- a State of Fear or a State of Anger (in reaction to danger).
- a State of Sadness or a State of Pity (in reaction to personal loss).
- a State of Distrust or a State of Disgust.
- a State of Envy.
- a State of Languishing.
- a State of Apathy.
- Complex Emotional States:
- Social Emotional States:
- Basic Emotions (according to Robert Plutchik's theory):
- States Associated with Physiological Events:
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Emotion Regulation, Addiction, Conscious, Emotional Expression, Reciprocal Influence, Psychological Mood, Temperament, Personality Psychology, Mental State, Subjective Experience.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion Retrieved:2023-6-20.
- Emotions are mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. [1] There is currently no scientific consensus on a definition. Emotions are often intertwined with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, or creativity.
Research on emotion has increased over the past two decades with many fields contributing including psychology, medicine, history, sociology of emotions, and computer science. The numerous attempts to explain the origin, function and other aspects of emotions have fostered intense research on this topic. Theorizing about the evolutionary origin and possible purpose of emotion dates back to Charles Darwin. Current areas of research include the neuroscience of emotion, using tools like PET and fMRI scans to study the affective picture processes in the brain.
From a mechanistic perspective, emotions can be defined as "a positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity."[1] Emotions are complex, involving multiple different components, such as subjective experience, cognitive processes, expressive behavior, psychophysiological changes, and instrumental behavior.[2] [3] At one time, academics attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James with a subjective experience, behaviorists with instrumental behavior, psychophysiologists with physiological changes, and so on. More recently, emotion is said to consist of all the components. The different components of emotion are categorized somewhat differently depending on the academic discipline. In psychology and philosophy, emotion typically includes a subjective, conscious experience characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states. A similar multi-componential description of emotion is found in sociology. For example, Peggy Thoits described emotions as involving physiological components, cultural or emotional labels (anger, surprise, etc.), expressive body actions, and the appraisal of situations and contexts.[4] Cognitive processes, like reasoning and decision-making, are often regarded as separate from emotional processes, making a division between "thinking" and "feeling". However, not all theories of emotion regard this separation as valid.
Nowadays most research into emotions in the clinical and well-being context focuses on emotion dynamics in daily life, predominantly the intensity of specific emotions, and their variability, instability, inertia, and differentiation, and whether and how emotions augment or blunt each other over time, and differences in these dynamics between people and along the lifespan.[5]
- Emotions are mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. [1] There is currently no scientific consensus on a definition. Emotions are often intertwined with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, or creativity.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Schacter, Daniel L.; Gilbert, Daniel T.; Wegner, Daniel M. (2011). Psychology (2nd ed.). New York: Worth Publishers. p. 310. ISBN 978-1429237192.
- ↑ Cabral, J. Centurion; de Almeida, Rosa Maria Martins (2022). "From social status to emotions: Asymmetric contests predict emotional responses to victory and defeat". Emotion. 22 (4): 769–779. doi:10.1037/emo0000839. ISSN 1931-1516. PMID 32628033. S2CID 220371464.
- ↑ Scherer KR (2005). “What are emotions? And how can they be measured?". Social Science Information. 44 (4): 693–727. doi:10.1177/0539018405058216. S2CID 145575751.
- ↑ Thoits PA (1989). “The sociology of emotions". Annual Review of Sociology. 15: 317–342. doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.15.1.317.
- ↑ Reitsema, A.M. (2021). "Emotion dynamics in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic and descriptive review". Emotion. 22 (2): 374–396. doi:10.1037/emo0000970. PMID 34843305. S2CID 244748515.
2015
- Yann LeCun. (2015). Emotions are the effect low-level/instinctive drives and the anticipations of rewards.
- QUOTE: (1) "AIs won't have emotions." They most likely will. Emotions are the effect low-level/instinctive drives and the anticipations of rewards.
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/emotion Retrieved:2014-1-12.
- In psychology and philosophy, emotion is a subjective, conscious experience characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states. Emotion is often associated and considered reciprocally influential with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, and motivation.
2014
- (Wikipedia, Simple, 2014) ⇒ http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emotions#Robert_Plutchik.27s_theory Retrieved:2014-1-12.
- Robert Plutchik's theory of emotion says that the basic eight emotions are:
- Fear → feeling afraid. Other words are terror (strong fear), shock, phobia
- Anger → feeling angry. A stronger word is rage.
- Sadness → feeling sad. Other words are sorrow, grief (a stronger feeling, for example when someone has died) or depression (feeling sad for a long time). Some people think depression is a different emotion.
- Joy → feeling happy. Other words are happiness, gladness.
- Disgust → feeling something is wrong or dirty
- Trust → a positive emotion; admiration is stronger; acceptance is weaker
- Anticipation → in the sense of looking forward positively to something which is going to happen. Expectation is more neutral.
- Surprise → how one feels when something unexpected happens
- Robert Plutchik's theory of emotion says that the basic eight emotions are:
2010
- (Kashdan & Rottenberg, 2010) ⇒ Todd B. Kashdan, and Jonathan Rottenberg. (2010). “Psychological flexibility as a fundamental aspect of health.” In: Clinical Psychology Review, 30(7).
- QUOTE: Traditionally, positive emotions and thoughts, strengths, and the satisfaction of basic psychological needs for belonging, competence, and autonomy have been seen as the cornerstones of psychological health. …
2009
- (Tamir, 2009) ⇒ Maya Tamir. (2009). “What do people want to feel and why? Pleasure and utility in emotion regulation.” In: Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18(2).
- ABSTRACT: It is typically assumed that people always want to feel good. Recent evidence, however, demonstrates that people want to feel unpleasant emotions, such as anger or fear, when these emotions promote the attainment of their long-term goals. If emotions are regulated for instrumental reasons, people should want to feel pleasant emotions when immediate benefits outweigh future benefits, but when future benefits outweigh immediate benefits, people may prefer to feel useful emotions, even if they are unpleasant. In this article, I describe an instrumental account of emotion regulation, review empirical evidence relevant to it, and discuss its implications for promoting adaptive emotional experiences.
1989
- (Jaggar, 1989) ⇒ Alison M. Jaggar. (1989). “Love and Knowledge: Emotion in feminist epistemology.” In: Inquiry, 32(2). doi:10.1080/00201748908602185
- ABSTRACT: This paper argues that, by construing emotion as epistemologically subversive, the Western tradition has tended to obscure the vital role of emotion in the construction of knowledge. The paper begins with an account of emotion that stresses its active, voluntary, and socially constructed aspects, and indicates how emotion is involved in evaluation and observation. It then moves on to show how the myth of dispassionate investigation has functioned historically to undermine the epistemic authority of women as well as other social groups associated culturally with emotion. Finally, the paper sketches some ways in which the emotions of underclass groups, especially women, may contribute to the development of a critical social theory.
1962
- (Schachter & Singer, 1962) ⇒ Stanley Schachter, and Jerome Singer. (1962). “Cognitive, Social, and Physiological Determinants of Emotional State." Psychological review 69, no. 5
- ABSTRACT: It is suggested that emotional states may be considered a function of a state of physiological arousal and of a cognition appropriate to this state of arousal. From this follows these propositions: (a) Given a state of physiological arousal for which an individual has no immediate explanation, he will label this state and describe his feelings in terms of the cognitions available to him…. (b) Given a state of physiological arousal for which an individual has a completely appropriate explanation, no evaluative needs will arise and the individual is unlikely to label his feelings in terms of the alternative cognitions available. (c) Given the same cognitive circumstances, the individual will react emotionally or describe his feelings as emotions only to the extent that he experiences a state of physiological arousal. An experiment is described which, together with the results of other studies, supports these propositions.