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Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. [1] An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food.
Appealing to one's deepest emotions or inner feelings; Tug at one's heartstrings; also heart-tugging [216] have the bees To be rich [217] have kittens 1. Expressing intense and unexpected emotions; see cast a kitten [95] 2. Experience a sudden outburst of laughter, fear, or anger e.g. "He got so upset, I thought he was going to have kittens" [95]
In her book Ugly Feelings, Sianne Ngai constructs a theoretical framework for analyzing and mobilizing affective concepts and presents a series of studies in the aesthetics of negative emotions, examining their politically ambiguous work in a range of cultural artifacts produced in what Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer refer to in their text, Dialectic of Enlightenment, as the ‘fully ...
Depression and anxiety are both pretty common as mental health conditions go, and for some of us—myself included—they exist together. In fact, some studies have suggested that between 20% and ...
v. t. e. Affect, in psychology, is the underlying experience of feeling, emotion, attachment, or mood. [1] It encompasses a wide range of emotional states and can be positive (e.g., happiness, joy, excitement) or negative (e.g., sadness, anger, fear, disgust). Affect is a fundamental aspect of human experience and plays a central role in many ...
Emotion classification, the means by which one may distinguish or contrast one emotion from another, is a contested issue in emotion research and in affective science. Researchers have approached the classification of emotions from one of two fundamental viewpoints: [citation needed]
Research on the relationship between culture and emotions dates back to 1872 when Darwin [3] argued that emotions and the expression of emotions are universal. Since that time, the universality of the seven basic emotions [4] (i.e., happiness, sadness, anger, contempt, fear, disgust, and surprise) has ignited a discussion amongst psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists.
This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...