Term | Definition |
Emotion appiness | The body's multidimensional response to any event that enhances or inhibits one's goals. |
Mood | A feeling, often prolonged, that has no identifiable cause. |
Happiness | A state of contentment, joy, pleasure, and cheer. |
Love | The emotion of caring for, feeling attached to, and feeling deeply committed to someone. |
Passion | A secondary emotion consisting of joy and surprise, plus experiences of excitement and attraction and for another. |
Liking | A positive overall evaluation of another person. |
Anger | An emotional response to being wronged. |
Contempt | A feeling of superiority over, and disrespect for, others. |
Disgust | A feeling of revulsion in reaction to something offensive. |
Jealousy | The perception that existence or the quality of an important relationship is being threatened by a third party. |
Envy | The desire for something another person has. |
Sadness | Emotion involving feeling unhappy, sorrowful, and discouraged, usually as a result of some form of loss. |
Depression | A physical illness involving excessive fatigue, insomnia, changes in weight, feelings of worthlessness, and/or thoughts of suicide of death. |
Grief | The emotional process of dealing with profound loss. |
Fear | The mind and body's reaction to perceived danger. |
Amygdala | A cluster of neurons in the brain that largely controls the body's fear response. |
Social Anxiety | Fear of not making a good impression on others. |
Action Tendencies | Biologically based motives toward specific behavioral responses to emotions. |
Valence | The positivity or negativity of an emotion. |
to mimic the | Distinct emotional experiences not consisting of combinations of other emotions. |
Secondary Emotions | Emotions composed of combinations of primary emotions. |
Meta-Emotion | An emotion about emotion. |
Display Rules | Unwritten codes that govern the ways people manage and express emotions. |
Emotional Contagion | The tendency to mimic the emotional experiences and expressions of others. |
Emotional Intelligence | The ability to perceive and understand emotions, use emotions to facilitate thought, and manage emotion constructively. |
Emotional Reappraisal | The process of changing how one thinks about the situation that gave rise to a negative emotion so that the effect of the emotion is diminished. |