Knowra Emotion Emotion An emotion is a complex psychological state involving subjective feeling, physiological changes, and responses to events or thoughts. Emotions can shape attention, judgment, and action.
Appraisal theory : A family of theories explaining emotion as arising from evaluations of events and their significance for a person. It explains how the same event can evoke different emotions depending on how it is evaluated.
Feeling : A consciously experienced affective state, such as warmth, discomfort, or joy. Feeling is the subjective component of an emotional episode.
Emotional intelligence : The ability to perceive, understand, use, and regulate emotional information. It describes skills for recognizing and working with emotions in oneself and others.
Basic emotions theory : The view that a limited set of basic emotions has distinctive, biologically grounded patterns of expression and response. It treats some emotions as discrete natural kinds rather than products of broader processes.
Flashbulb memory : A vivid, confidently remembered account of learning about a surprising or consequential event. Strong emotion can make memories feel exceptionally vivid without guaranteeing accuracy.
James–Lange theory : A theory that emotion results from perceiving bodily changes triggered by a stimulus. It places bodily response before the felt emotion.
Mood : A relatively diffuse affective state that lasts longer than a brief emotional response and may lack a clear cause. Moods differ from emotions in duration and often in having no identifiable trigger.
Emotion regulation : Processes used to influence which emotions occur, when they occur, and how they are experienced or expressed. It concerns how people modify emotional responses to meet goals or circumstances.
Theory of constructed emotion : A theory that emotions are constructed by the brain using bodily signals, concepts, and context. It disputes the idea that each emotion has a fixed biological signature.
Stress : A psychological and physiological response to demands perceived as challenging or threatening. Emotional responses often accompany stress and can shape its effects on the body.
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