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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.
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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Jul 31, 2009 · Our own professional involvement with the study of hurt feelings began accidentally, in the late 1980s, when Shaver, Schwartz, Kirson, and O'Connor (1987) probed the semantic structure of the...
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...
According to the American Psychological Association (APA), emotion is defined as “a complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioral and physiological elements.” Emotions are how individuals deal with matters or situations they find personally significant.
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Since emotions were first studied psychologically, there has been controversy over how they are caused. According to the James-Lange theory of emotion, there is an event that produces arousal and other physiological changes in the body (James, 1884; Lang, 1994). These physiological changes are then interpreted. The result of the interpretation ...
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Nov 3, 2020 · People hold various beliefs about emotion, such as what causes an emotion, how and why emotions differ, and what one should do about their own and others' emotions (e.g., Ben-Artzi and Mikulincer, 1996; Ford and Gross, 2019).
