emotions |
Working Definition:
motions are states of feeling such as love, envy, hatred, jealousy, envy, etc. Generally speaking, we do not have names for feelings. Typically we say: "I feel sad," that is, we attribute an emotion (for which we have names) to certain feeling states.
Disciplinary Definitions:
See: Ekman, P., & Davidson, R. J. (Eds.). (1994). The Nature of Emotion: Fundamental Questions. Oxford: Oxford UP.
Rom Harré and Roger Lamb define emotion from a developmental, social, and pyysiological point of view in their dictionaries devoted to each subject area.
"Emotions may be defined as an aroused state of the organism involving conscious, visceral, and behavioral changes. Emotions are therefore more intense than simple feelings, and involve the organism as a whole." J. P. Chaplin. Dictionary of Psychology.
“The two-factor theory of emotion involves the idea that emotional experience is the result of a two-step self-perception process in which people first experience physiological arousal and then seek an appropriate explanation for it” (Aronson, Social Psychology, et. al., 1999, 171 & Schachter, Stanley 1964).
Schachter’s theory confirms my delineation of the relation between feelings and emotions. Schacter’s research shows that emotions are the result of self-perception. However, arousal does not always precede interpretation. In “cognitive appraisal” theories of emotion, the interpretation of a situation could stimulate or arouse us and influence our interpretation of why we are aroused. (Aronson, Social Psychology, et. al., 1999, 175).
People assume that the way they feel now is the way they felt in the past (Aronson, Social Psychology, et. al., 1999, 177 & Ross ).
Comments:
feelings are physiological states which are interpreted as emotions. cal manifestations and categorized semantically as in the class of emotions, e.g., love, hate, fear, anger, etc. In as much as emotions, in this sense, are social (that is, involve models of behavior), they entail "subject positions," that is relations with others [Harré & Lamb, 86].
I make a sharper distinction is made between emotion and feeling than most defintions make. Whereas feelings are usually understood to be a part of emotions and part of the same process, in C-CS, feelings are "pre-articulate" and emotions are "articulated" (cognitively framed). The articulation of an emotion interprets the feeling state.
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