emotion
any strong feeling
Research draft, second pass
A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.
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Researched by: Claude
Purpose and description
Let an agent explain emotion as a concept, distinguish emotions from moods and feelings, relay theories and research findings with attribution, describe emotions neutrally across cultures, and route personal distress to support services.
In the sense recorded here, any strong feeling: a state such as joy, anger, fear, sadness or disgust that involves bodily changes, expression, appraisal and a tendency to act, experienced by a person and studied in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy; emotions differ from moods, which are longer and less focused, and from feelings as the conscious part of emotion.
What it is for: Guiding behaviour and communication through felt states.
It can be explain the concept and its components; distinguish emotion from mood, feeling and temperament; relay theories and research with attribution; route personal distress to support.
Distinguishing features
Appraisal, feeling, expression and action tendency
Episodic and object-directed
Universal and culturally shaped
Central to mental life
What it looks like
Not visible as an object; expressed in face, voice, body and behaviour.
How it is recognised
Strong feeling with bodily, expressive and behavioural components
Episodic rather than lasting like a mood
Emotional disorders are clinical conditions, separate entries
Related models
is a kind of - an affective state
is contrasted with - longer and less focused
is studied by - the interdisciplinary field
is expressed by - a main channel
In practice
Families and kinds
basic emotions such as joy, anger, fear, sadness, disgust and surprise
social emotions such as shame, guilt and pride
positive and negative emotions
conditioned emotional responses in learning theory
aversive emotions such as abhorrence and detestation, which the registry lists as aliases
Standards and regulation
No regulation; research ethics govern emotion studies
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing emotion with mood or disorder
Stereotyping emotional expression by culture or gender
Agents offering therapy instead of routing
Analytical facets
- substance
- mental
- origin
- conceptual
- agency
- inert
- mobility
- not-applicable
- scale
- not-applicable
- affordances
- observable
Also called
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Where this came from
oewn:2024 · CC BY 4.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Concept What emotion is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and components.
Definition
Definition.
- What is an emotion, and what components do theories identify? definition
- Is the user expressing distress or risk, which must be routed to support services? boundary
Distinctions
Emotion, mood, feeling.
Distinctions
Distinctions.
- How do emotion, mood, feeling and temperament differ? definition
- Which entry fits the related concept? action
Theory Theories of emotion.
Attribution.
Theories
Theories.
Theories
Theories.
- What do basic emotion, appraisal, constructionist and other theories say, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Biology
Brain and body.
Biology
Biology.
- What is known about the neural and bodily basis of emotion, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Expression Expression and culture.
Culture.
Expression
Expression.
Expression
Expression.
- How are emotions expressed and recognised, and how universal is that, with findings attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation free of stereotypes? boundary
Culture
Cultural variation.
Culture
Culture.
- How do cultures name, value and regulate emotions? provenance
- Which entry fits cultural psychology? action
Apply Regulation and study.
Application.
Regulation
Emotion regulation.
Regulation
Regulation.
- What does research say about emotion regulation and wellbeing, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user asking for personal help, which needs support services? boundary
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How is emotion taught in psychology, and which misconceptions arise? provenance
- Which entry fits psychology? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should each basic emotion be a separate entry?
- How should emotion research be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific aversive emotions and a learning term; should they be split off?