A functional account of emotions posits that emotions facilitate adaptive responses to environmental challenges. In other words, emotions are systems...

differentiates emotions as functional or dysfunctional and argues all functional emotions have benefits. In some uses of the word, emotions are intense feelings...

and emotion-related behavior (bodily actions or expressions). Functionally, emotion regulation can also refer to processes such as the tendency to focus...

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On "basic emotion" accounts, activation of an emotion, such as anger, sadness, or fear, is "triggered" by the brain's appraisal of a stimulus or event...

humiliation of another. It is a loanword from German. Schadenfreude has been detected in children as young as 24 months and may be an important social emotion establishing...

of subfields including functional, mechanistic, cognitive bias tests, self-medicating, spindle neurons, vocalizations and neurology. While emotions in...

patterns to change emotions, mood, or behavior Physiotherapy and occupational therapy Physiotherapy with someone who understands functional disorders may be...

significant challenges in recognizing, sourcing, and describing one's emotions. It is associated with difficulties in attachment and interpersonal relations...

which aspects of our environment are emotionally significant. They are essential for generating emotions, particularly negative emotions such as fear....

The Sociology of emotions applies a sociological lens to the topic of emotions. The discipline of Sociology, which falls within the social sciences, is...

Systemic functional grammar (SFG) is a form of grammatical description originated by Michael Halliday. It is part of a social semiotic approach to language...

by negative emotions, experiencing intense grief instead of sadness, shame and humiliation instead of mild embarrassment, rage instead of annoyance, and...

that researchers should take the lived experience of people with norm-breaking functionality into account in their studies, further expanding the knowledge...

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Emotionally focused therapy and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) are related humanistic approaches to psychotherapy that aim to resolve emotional and relationship...

second part of the book, entitled "Essays on the Primacy of Emotion", Cytowic presents a number of his reflections on what the phenomenon of synesthesia...

passes, and I now became a prey to a host of emotions..." Another classical interpretation of the phenomenon of "hunger at first sight" is found in Plato's...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow. This technique...

purification and purgation of thoughts and emotions by way of expressing them. The desired result is an emotional state of renewal and restoration. In...

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as functional in the sense of working together, and are effectively deemed to have "lives" of their own. They are primarily analyzed in terms of this...

the past, present, and future; ambivalent (bittersweet) emotions; reflection and evaluation of one's life; and symbolic richness. In a cross-cultural study...

study of emotion or affect. This includes the study of emotion elicitation, emotional experience and the recognition of emotions in others. Of particular...

aspect of the appraisal theory is that it accounts for individual variability in emotional reactions to the same event. Appraisal theories of emotion are...

characteristic facial expression, one of Paul Ekman's six universal facial expressions of emotion. Unlike the emotions of fear, anger, and sadness, disgust...

Valence, also known as hedonic tone, is a characteristic of emotions that determines their emotional affect (intrinsic appeal or repulsion). Positive...

should be more than something functional and/or aesthetically pleasing and it should evoke an emotion through the use of pleasures. Although it is hard...

pleasure centers of the brain – are functionally linked. Activation of one hotspot results in the recruitment of the others. Inhibition of one hotspot results...

associated with negative emotions. It is one of the Big Five traits. People high in neuroticism experience negative emotions like fear, anger, shame,...