EMOTION

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Emotions are positive and negative feelings who come from situations / stimuli that affect the individual.
Evans (1989): the feeling that involves a mix of physical reactions (ex: heart rate increases), conscious experience (ex: fall in love), who looks and behavior (ex: a smile)
So, the elements include emotion, stimulus, conscious experience, physical reactions, and behaviors.
Factors affecting the emotional
  • Individual's physical state (ex: pain, lbh sensitive feelings) 
  • The ground state of individual / private structure of the individual (eg, irritability org yg) 
  • Individual circumstances at a time (temporary) for example: people who are normal people frantically VS.
Types of Emotions:
Basic human emotions (Rene Descartes, 1596-1650):
  1. love 
  2. excitement 
  3. desire 
  4. hate 
  5. sad 
  6. amazed
Robert Plutchik (1991) proposed four dimensions of emotion to the classification:
  1. Negative or positive 
  2. Primary or mixed 
  3. Some who are polar opposite 
  4. its intensity varies
Eight primary emotions: acceptance, fear, surprise, Sadness, disgust, anger, Anticipation, joy.
8 mixture of emotions:
  1. Love (joy + acceptance) 
  2. Adherent (reception + fear) 
  3. Awe (fear + surprise) 
  4. Disappointed (shocked anguish +) 
  5. Remorse (sadness + disgust) 
  6. Contempt (anger + disgust) 
  7. Aggressiveness (anger anticipation +) 
  8. Optimism (anticipation + joy
Emotions can be a combination of mixed primary and mixed emotions. Ex: jealousy (love + rage)
Several opposite emotions. Ex: love> <sorry, optimistic> <disappointment, sadness> <joy, etc.

Process Emotions
Emotional reactions involving cognitive, physiological, and behavioral. 
-Cognitive form of thoughts, impressions, memories, interpretations. The situation can lead to pleasure, or distress, depending on how the assessments and individual meanings.
-Physiological, emotional interaction with the limbic system, cerebral cortex, autonomic nervous system, and the hormonal (endocrine). Cerebral cortex associated with the hypothalamus, amygdala and other limbic system structures. The ability to regulate emotions depends pd function is located in the prefrontal cortex blkg forehead. The amygdala function as an early warning system will be a threatening situation.
Real behavior, emotional displays of angry, sad, fearful, or happy. Ex: facial expression.

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