A report on Emotion
Emotions are mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioural responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure.
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Affective neuroscience
1 linksAffective neuroscience is the study of the neural mechanisms of emotion.
Somatic marker hypothesis
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The somatic marker hypothesis, formulated by Antonio Damasio and associated researchers, proposes that emotional processes guide (or bias) behavior, particularly decision-making.
Anthropology
3 linksScientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species.
Scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species.
This subfield tends to focus on ways in which humans' development and enculturation within a particular cultural group – with its own history, language, practices, and conceptual categories – shape processes of human cognition, emotion, perception, motivation, and mental health.
René Descartes
1 linksFrench philosopher, mathematician, scientist and lay Catholic who invented analytic geometry, linking the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra.
French philosopher, mathematician, scientist and lay Catholic who invented analytic geometry, linking the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra.
Descartes' writings went on to form the basis for theories on emotions and how cognitive evaluations were translated into affective processes.
Stanley Schachter
0 linksAmerican social psychologist, who is perhaps best known for his development of the two factor theory of emotion in 1962 along with Jerome E. Singer.
American social psychologist, who is perhaps best known for his development of the two factor theory of emotion in 1962 along with Jerome E. Singer.
A person's experience of an emotion stems from the mental awareness of the body's physical arousal and the explanation one attaches to this arousal.
Human voice
0 linksThe human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling.
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling.
The tone of voice may be modulated to suggest emotions such as anger, surprise, fear, happiness or sadness.
A Treatise of Human Nature
0 linksAttempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered by many to be Hume's most important work and one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy.
Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered by many to be Hume's most important work and one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy.
He divides these "reflective impressions"—"the passions, and other emotions resembling them"—into "the calm and the violent" (nearly imperceptible emotions of "beauty and deformity", and turbulent passions we experience more strongly) and into "direct and indirect" (depending on how complicated the causal story behind them is).
Rational emotive behavior therapy
1 linksRational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), previously called rational therapy and rational emotive therapy, is an active-directive, philosophically and empirically based psychotherapy, the aim of which is to resolve emotional and behavioral problems and disturbances and to help people to lead happier and more fulfilling lives.
Affection
0 linksA "disposition or state of mind or body" that is often associated with a feeling or type of love.
A "disposition or state of mind or body" that is often associated with a feeling or type of love.
More specifically, the word has been restricted to emotional states, the object of which is a living thing such as a human or animal.
Carl Lange (physician)
2 linksDanish physician who made contributions to the fields of neurology, psychiatry, and psychology.
Danish physician who made contributions to the fields of neurology, psychiatry, and psychology.
In it, he posited that all emotions are developed from, and can be reduced to, physiological reactions to stimuli.