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Emotions - Luka Marinac
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Key Elements of Emotions
Physiological Response: Responses you expierience while an emotion that are controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, such as your heart palpate with fear. Involuntary actions.
Behavioral Response: The actual expression of the emotion. These ones are voluntary actions. (I dont really undrestand the difference between this one and the physiological response, because for example crying can be involuntary).
Subjective Experience: Some researchers believe that emotions can be highly subjective.(In my opinion this is true, because a thing can make someone furious and other person can be more passive.
Theories of Emotions
James-Lange theory: our physical an external stimuli leads to a physiological response. Your emotional reaction depends on how you interpret that physical reaction.
Cannon-Bard theory: People can have physiological reactions without feeling those emotions. Emotional responses happen very fast to be only a product of the physical state.
Darwin Theory: Evolutionary Theory: Emotions are adaptive to their environment and improve our chances of survival. (this one makes sense, because love leads to reproduction, and fear to being careful).
Schachter-Singer theory: First the physiological response happens, and then the individual has to recognize the reason of this response to identify it as an emotion
Cognitive Appraisal Theory: thinking must occur before experiencing the emotion. First there is a stimulus, then thought, and then the physiological response. (I dont agree with this one, because an autonomus action does not need to be thought before).
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In my opinion, even thought some emotions can be recognized as negative (such as sadness) it would not have sense to live without them.
Emotions, Feelings and Moods.
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Moods: temporary emotional state. Sometimes it has a clear reason and sometimes it does not have a clear reason.
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