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Subjective Experience

The personal, internal feeling state that is often difficult to describe fully to others.

Physiological Response

Biological reactions in the body that accompany emotions, such as increased heart rate or sweating.

Cognitive Appraisal

Personal interpretation or assessment of a situation that triggers specific emotions.

Behavioral Response

Actions driven by emotions that are appropriate responses to environmental stimuli.

Elicitors

Stimuli or events that trigger emotional responses in individuals.

Internal Elicitors

Thoughts, memories, or anticipations that trigger emotional responses.

James-Lange Theory

States that emotions are a result of physiological reactions to events.

Cannon-Bard Theory

Posits that physiological responses and emotional experiences occur simultaneously and independently.

Two-Factor Theory (Schachter-Singer)

Proposes that emotions result from both physiological arousal and cognitive labeling.

Broaden-and-Build Theory

Suggests that positive emotions broaden thought-action repertoires and build personal resources.

Universal Emotions

Basic emotions recognized and experienced by people across all cultures.

Display Rules

Cultural norms that dictate appropriate expressions of emotions in various social situations.

Amplification

Exaggerating an emotion to appear more emotional than actually felt.

Deamplification

Downplaying an emotion to appear less emotional than actually felt.

Masking

Hiding one's true emotions and displaying something entirely different.

Neutralization

Showing no emotion at all to keep one's true feelings hidden.