Theories Of Emotion

INTRODUCTION

Emotion is often defined as a complex state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence thought and behavior. Emotion includes three things 1• Conscious experience (feelings) 2• expressions which can be seen by others 3• actions of the body (physiological arousal). The part of brain known as the limbic system is highly involved in emotion. One structure in the limbic system, called the amygdale, plays a particularly important role in regulating emotion.

"An emotion is a complex psychological state that involves three distinct components: a subjective experience, a physiological response, and a behavioral or expressive response."(Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2007).

There are the basic emotions that

External stimulus leads to a physiological response. Your emotional reaction depends on upon how you interpret those physical reactions.

Cannon and bard's theory: we feel the emotions and experience the physiological reactions such as sweating, trembling and muscle tension simultaneously.

Schachter-singer: the interaction between physical arousal and how we cognitively label that arousal. This interpretation of arousal leads them to experience a specific emotion.

Paul Eckman: Dr. Ekman’s research has revealed that Micro expressions are facial expressions that occur within 1/25th of a second and expose a person’s true emotions. These facial expressions are the same on every man; woman and child, regardless of their cultural background. Emotions are not a cultural phenomenon but a universal

The dimensional measure was the 20-item Positive and Negative Affect Schedule. For the discrete emotions measure, participants indicated how much they generally experienced 6 positive emotional states (e.g., joy, love) and 6 negative states (e.g. fear, anger).They have study the use of emotional regulation with peer-reports and Self-reports . The result shows that reappraisal was also related to less negative-emotion expression or more positive-emotion expression, in both self- and peer-rated measures. Individuals frequently using suppression experienced less positive emotion, both on the dimensional and on the discrete measures. With regard to expression, they also expressed less positive emotions, and again this effect held for both self- and