Definitions for emotions
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1. emotions

   Emotions are mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. There is currently no scientific consensus on a definition. Emotions are often intertwined with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, or creativity.Research on emotion has increased over the past two decades with many fields contributing including psychology, medicine, history, sociology of emotions, and computer science. The numerous theories that attempt to explain the origin, function and other aspects of emotions have fostered more intense research on this topic. Current areas of research in the concept of emotion include the development of materials that stimulate and elicit emotion. In addition, PET scans and fMRI scans help study the affective picture processes in the brain.From a mechanistic perspective, emotions can be defined as "a positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity." Emotions produce different physiological, behavioral and cognitive changes. The original role of emotions was to motivate adaptive behaviors that in the past would have contributed to the passing on of genes through survival, reproduction, and kin selection.In some theories, cognition is an important aspect of emotion. Other theories, however, claim that emotion is separate from and can precede cognition. Consciously experiencing an emotion is exhibiting a mental representation of that emotion from a past or hypothetical experience, which is linked back to a content state of pleasure or displeasure. The content states are established by verbal explanations of experiences, describing an internal state.Emotions are complex. There are various theories on the question of whether or not emotions cause changes in our behaviour. On the one hand, the physiology of emotion is closely linked to arousal of the nervous system. Emotion is also linked to behavioral tendency. Extroverted people are more likely to be social and express their emotions, while introverted people are more likely to be more socially withdrawn and conceal their emotions. Emotion is often the driving force behind motivation. On the other hand, emotions are not causal forces but simply syndromes of components, which might include motivation, feeling, behaviour, and physiological changes, but none of these components is the emotion. Nor is the emotion an entity that causes these components.Emotions involve different components, such as subjective experience, cognitive processes, expressive behavior, psychophysiological changes, and instrumental behavior. At one time, academics attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James with a subjective experience, behaviorists with instrumental behavior, psychophysiologists with physiological changes, and so on. More recently, emotion is said to consist of all the components. The different components of emotion are categorized somewhat differently depending on the academic discipline. In psychology and philosophy, emotion typically includes a subjective, conscious experience characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states. A similar multi-componential description of emotion is found in sociology. For example, Peggy Thoits described emotions as involving physiological components, cultural or emotional labels (anger, surprise, etc.), expressive body actions, and the appraisal of situations and contexts. Nowadays most research into emotions in the clinical and well-being context focuses on emotion dynamics in daily life, predominantly the intensity of specific emotions, and their variability, instability, inertia, and differentiation, and whether and how emotions augment or blunt each other over time, and differences in these dynamics between people and along the lifespan.

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1. Emotions

   "Emotions" is a hit song written and produced by Mariah Carey, David Cole and Robert Clivillés of the C+C Music Factory, and recorded for Carey's second album of the same name. It was released as the album's first single in the third quarter of 1991 in the United States and in the fourth quarter elsewhere. This disco-influenced song has its protagonist going through a variety of emotions, from high to low, up to the point where she declares "you got me feeling emotions" and sings high notes.

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1. Emotions

   Those affective states which can be experienced and have arousing and motivational properties.

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1. emotionsverb

   Energy motioning out through intersections of neuroscience. 0.) Thoughts measuring the matter equal to the type of person overtime in the soul physics in contact with and supported by a source. 1.) a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.

   I keep my emotions in Universal Time so that I can see to act clearly.

   Etymology: Mindful feelings

   
   

   Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 3, 2024  

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   emotions

   Plural form of emotion.

   We naturally express our emotions peacefully when we need to.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on December 17, 2015  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'emotions' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4606

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   Mark

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   Mia

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of emotions in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of emotions in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of emotions in a Sentence

1. Jorge Garcia-Bengochea:

   They are herd animals, so they are very intuitive of what other horses are doing, needing. And they treat people that same way. They sense different emotions, different feelings that children have, children have been through very traumatic situations and they've shut down. Just being around the animal, they get animated, they start talking and they actually sometimes tell the horse things that they haven't told other people.

2. Nancy Rifenbark:

   It's heart-wrenching and it's a roller coaster of emotions right now. I've never dealt with something like this in my life. It's horrible, he was the greatest guy you'll ever meet.

3. Kazushige Touhara:

   Although there are many circumstances in which humans utilize olfactory cues for communication, there is no authentic pheromone that has been chemically identified, i believe there is no classic sex pheromone in humans that elicits attractive behavior to the opposite sex. But there are probably crucial odors that affect each other's emotions - for example, a baby's head smell that parents sniff and feel happy, and a woman's axillary (underarm) odors that affect the emotions of males.

4. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   there is no other profession in the history of man which shows his evil intent than politics, but this he already knows to be true, except for the fact that his emotions and ambitions won't allow him to admit because of his blind arrogance and stupidity.

5. Police Capt. Darryl McKinney:

   Obviously, there’s a lot going on in the world, people are worked up about things. They’re upset, or at least some people are. I think there are some emotions stirred up, and we’re seeing people act how they normally wouldn’t.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotions
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=emotions