19 Facts About Emotions

Emotions are mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioural responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure.

Emotions are often intertwined with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, or creativity.

Emotions involve different components, such as subjective experience, cognitive processes, expressive behavior, psychophysiological changes, and instrumental behavior.

Emotions proposed that actions are motivated by "fears, desires, and passions".

Emotions have been categorized, with some relationships existing between emotions and some direct opposites existing.

Emotions have been described as a result of evolution because they provided good solutions to ancient and recurring problems that faced our ancestors.

Emotions proposed what is known as "core-SELF" to be generating these affects.

Emotions pioneered various methods for studying non-verbal expressions, from which he concluded that some expressions had cross-cultural universality.

Emotions argued that physiological responses were too slow and often imperceptible and this could not account for the relatively rapid and intense subjective awareness of emotion.

Emotions believed that the richness, variety, and temporal course of emotional experiences could not stem from physiological reactions, that reflected fairly undifferentiated fight or flight responses.

Emotions suggested that physiological reactions contributed to emotional experience by facilitating a focused cognitive appraisal of a given physiologically arousing event and that this appraisal was what defined the subjective emotional experience.

Emotions were thus a result of two-stage process: general physiological arousal, and experience of emotion.

Emotions has put forward a more nuanced view which responds to what he has called the 'standard objection' to cognitivism, the idea that a judgment that something is fearsome can occur with or without emotion, so judgment cannot be identified with emotion.

Emotions are thought to be related to certain activities in brain areas that direct our attention, motivate our behavior, and determine the significance of what is going on around us.

Emotions are seen by some researchers to be constructed in social and cognitive domain alone, without directly implying biologically inherited characteristics.

Emotions'story of emotions has become an increasingly popular topic recently, with some scholars arguing that it is an essential category of analysis, not unlike class, race, or gender.

Emotions can be experienced at different levels of intensity so that feelings of concern are a low-intensity variation of the primary emotion aversion-fear whereas depression is a higher intensity variant.

Emotions explained how the heightened state of emotional energy achieved during totemic rituals transported individuals above themselves giving them the sense that they were in the presence of a higher power, a force, that was embedded in the sacred objects that were worshipped.

Emotions, then, are feelings which come about as a result of these physiological changes, rather than being their cause.