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| a conscious evaluative reaction to some event |
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| a feeling state that is not clearly linked t some event |
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| the automatic response that something is good or bad |
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| a powerful and clearly unified state, such as anger or joy |
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| a quick response of liking or disliking toward something |
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| the study of a culture by examining its language |
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| a physiological reaction, including faster heartbeat and faster or heavier breathing, linked to most conscious emotions |
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| James-Lange theory of emotion |
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| the proposition that the bodily processes of emotion come first and the mind's perception of these bodily reactions then creates the subjective feeling of emotion |
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| facial feedback hypothesis |
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| the idea that feedback from the face muscles evokes or magnifies emotions |
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| Cannon-Bard theory of emotion |
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| the proposition that emotional stimuli activate the thalamus, which then activates both the cortex, producing and experienced emotion, and the hypothalamus and autonomic nervous system, producing physiological arousal |
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| Schachter-Singer theory of emotion |
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| the idea that emotion has two components: a bodily state of arousal and a cognitive label that specifies the emotion |
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| the idea that arousal from one event can transfer to a later event |
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| the frequency of positive emotions minus the frequency of negative emotions |
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| an evaluation of how one's life is generally, and how it compares to some standard |
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| a theory proposing that people stay at about the same level of happiness regardless of what happens to them |
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| an emotional response to a real or imagined threat or provocation |
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| the proposition that expressing negative emotions produces a healthy release of those emotions and is therefore good for the psyche |
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| an unpleasant moral emotion associated with a specific instance in which one has acted badly or wrongly |
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| a moral emotion that, like guilt, involves feeling bad but, unlike guilt, spreads to the whole person |
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| an unpleasant emotion associated with surviving a tragic event involving much loss of life |
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| affect-as-information hypothesis |
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| the idea that people judge something as good or bad by asking themselves "How do I feel about it?" |
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| the ability to predict one's emotional reactions to future events |
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| risk-as-feelings hypothesis |
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| the idea that people rely on emotional processes to evaluate risk, with the result that their judgments may be biased by emotional factors |
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| the proposition that positive emotions expand an individuals attention and mind-set |
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| the proposition that some arousal is better than none, but too much can hurt performance |
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| emotional intelligence (EQ) |
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| the ability to perceive, access and generate, understand, and reflectively regulate emotions |
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