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  1. Sep 1, 2007 · Emotions are widely held to involve changes in experiential, behavioural, and physiological systems. It is not clear, however, just how tightly coupled these changes are during emotional...

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  2. A feeling is the result of an emotion and may be influenced by memories, beliefs and other factors. A mood is described by the APA as “any short-lived emotional state, usually of low intensity.” Moods difer from emotions because they lack stimuli and have no clear starting point.

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  3. To synthesize the growing literature on emotion beliefs, we first provide a conceptual mapping of two superor-dinate beliefs that are central to this domain: (a) beliefs about whether emotions are good or bad and (b) beliefs about whether emotions are controllable or uncontrol-lable.

  4. There are three major reasons why we experience emotions. Emotions help to motivate us for action: Emotions help to organize our behaviour and set us in motion to accomplish a goal.

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  5. Our key primary emotions are: fear; sadness; disgust; surprise; anger (although sometimes is secondary); contempt; and joy/happiness. Each primary emotion has a distinct purpose and functionality, and can be either adaptive (healthy) or maladaptive (unhealthy), as depicted in the table below.

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  6. Positive emotions are related to desirability beliefs, negative emotions to beliefs that something is undesirable. This criterion is widely accepted in emotions theory, both in philosophy and psychology.

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  8. Emotions appear long before thoughts in human evolution and our own development. The parts of the brain that handle rational thought (the frontal lobe and the neocortex) develop from and remain firmly rooted in the areas of the brain that handle basic emotions (the amygdala and the limbic system).

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