Concept information
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substance abuse treatment
screening, assessment, and diagnosis
assessment
personality assessment
Preferred term
emotion
Definition
- Emotions define the way we respond to our social, built, or created environment and involve a way of understanding the world. Our understanding of emotion is gendered, and there are gendered emotional expectations. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Emotions]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- affect
- affect-as-information
- affect heuristic
- affect infusion
- ambivalence
- anger
- anxiety
- apathy
- arousal
- awe
- bereavement
- boredom
- broaden-and-build theory of positive affect
- buffering effects
- companionate love
- decision and commitment in love
- disgust
- distress
- elevation
- embarrassment
- emotional contagion
- empathy
- envy
- euphoria
- expressed emotion
- facial expression of emotion
- facial-feedback hypothesis
- fear
- fear appeals
- forgiveness
- frustration (emotion)
- gratitude
- grief
- guilt
- happiness
- hate
- hedonic treadmill
- hostility
- humour
- independence of positive and negative affect
- intergroup anxiety
- intergroup emotions
- jealousy
- laughter
- learned helplessness
- loneliness
- love (emotion)
- melancholia
- mere exposure effect
- moral emotions
- nonconscious emotion
- opponent process theory of emotions
- pleasure
- positive affect
- psychache
- regret
- romantic love
- shame
- social anxiety
- stress and coping
- suffering
- surprise (emotion)
- unrequited love
- visceral influences
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/emotion
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