EMOTIONS
Prepared by Yasmin Salikhojayeva 122 group
Faculty of translation and Philology –
Foreign philology
Emotions
Emotions, in general, are
complex evaluative (positive or
negative) reactions of the
nervous system in response to
external or internal stimuli.
Concept of emotion
• A class of subjective feeling elicited by
stimuli that have high significance to an
individual
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stimuli that produce high arousal generally
produce strong feelings
are rapid and automatic
emerged through natural selection to benefit
survival and reproduction
Robert
Plutchik
believed 8
basic
emotions
could be
mixed to
create all
other
emotions.
Feeling or emotion?
An emotion is the projection/display of a
feeling. Unlike feelings, the display of emotion
can be either genuine or feigned. We broadcast
emotion to the world; sometimes that broadcast
is an expression of our internal state and other
times it is contrived in order to fulfill social
expectations.