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  2. Appeal to emotion - Wikipedia

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    Appeal to emotion is an application of social psychology. It is only fallacious when the emotions that are elicited are irrelevant to evaluating the truth of the conclusion and serve to distract from rational consideration of relevant premises or information.

  3. Emotion - Wikipedia

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    Emotional Responses: Appraisal tendencies influence emotional responses to situations. For instance, individuals with a tendency to appraise situations as threatening may consistently experience fear or anxiety in response to a range of situations perceived as threats.

  4. Stratification of emotional life (Scheler) - Wikipedia

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    The practical significance of Scheler's Stratification of Emotional Life is obvious in several respects and points of view. First, Scheler seems to be making a case in favor of what we might refer to today as Emotional Intelligence, as a portal to more ethical behavior and optimum personal development, similar to the ancient Greek concern for promoting virtuous character. [3]

  5. Emotions in decision-making - Wikipedia

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    Bower and others stated that emotions and feelings cannot be extracted from the human mind. The emotions felt in a particular situation will be recorded in the emotional memory and can be activated when the person faces a similar situation or has to make a difficult decision in a short period of time.

  6. Affect (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    Affect, as a term of rhetoric, is the responsive, emotional feeling that precedes cognition. [1] Affect differs from pathos as described by Aristotle as one of the modes of proof [2] and pathos as described by Jasinski as an emotional appeal [3] because it is “the response we have to things before we label that response with feelings or emotions.” [4]

  7. Appraisal theory - Wikipedia

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    Appraisal theory is the theory in psychology that emotions are extracted from our evaluations (appraisals or estimates) of events that cause specific reactions in different people. Essentially, our appraisal of a situation causes an emotional, or affective, response that is going to be based on that appraisal. [1]

  8. Emotionality - Wikipedia

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    In early psychology, it was believed that passion (emotion) was a part of the soul inherited from the animals and that it must be controlled. Solomon [ clarification needed ] identified that in the Romantic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, reason and emotion were discovered to be opposites.

  9. Emotional bias - Wikipedia

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    An emotional bias is a distortion in cognition and decision making due to emotional factors. For example, a person might be inclined: to attribute negative judgements to neutral events or objects; [1] [2] to believe something that has a positive emotional effect, that gives a pleasant feeling, even if there is evidence to the contrary;