I will start with the latter, because it is easier to explain. Emotions are personal experiences or states, like anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise: these are the six basic emotions catalogued by the psychologist Paul Ekman , though we may well dispute his claims that this list is either exhaustive, or invariant across cultures. Presumably emotions are acute and momentary, while moods are longer-lasting and more stable, providing a general background to our more immediate experiences.
But in spite of all these difficulties, we are generally able to recognize emotions in ourselves and others. Indeed, emotions are always attached to subjects or selves. They are conditions that come over us, or in which we find ourselves. They are states of mind that we experience directly.
They tend to color and inflect—or even set the conditions for—nearly all of our other perceptions and actions. Cognitivists and evolutionary psychiatrists understand emotions largely in functional terms. Emotions, they tell us, are shortcuts which aid us in making judgments necessary to our survival.
If something tastes disgusting, I immediately spit it out; I might well die if I only rejected a given piece of food after having rationally determined that it was poisonous.
From How Emotions Are Made. Some context is: Scholars and scientists have confused affect and emotion for centuries. Category : Chapter 4. Navigation menu Personal tools. Home Book reviews Glossary Errata. Get help Contact. According to those who consider emotions to be multi-componential reactions to the environment e. It's definition isn't as specific as the one above. On the other hand, " feelings " has no specific definition.
It's a vague term that most emotion theorists don't use because it could refer to almost anything e. To specify that feelings are specific to the affective domain, we often use the phrase affective feelings , but it's not a word that's central to any modern emotion theory that I know of. So when in doubt, don't use the word feelings.
But do use affect , emotion , or mood , as long as you explicitly define them using whatever theory you subscribe to. According to Shouse :. Feelings are personal, emotions are social and affect is prepersonal.
In other words, feelings are how we understand and label our sensations, based on our own experiences. Emotions are how we project these socially through facial expressions etc.
Emotions can therefore be manipulated to fit with social norms. Affect is more abstract and is the 'non-conscious experience of intensity' felt through the body, before we name and categorise it. Reference Shouse. Feeling, Emotion, Affect. See the article by Shouse, E. Shouse, E. Feeling, emotion, affect. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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