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  2. Stoic passions - Wikipedia

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    The Stoics used the word to discuss many common emotions such as anger, fear and excessive joy. [3] A passion is a disturbing and misleading force in the mind which occurs because of a failure to reason correctly. [2] For the Stoic Chrysippus the passions are evaluative judgements. [4] A person experiencing such an emotion has incorrectly ...

  3. Fear of negative evaluation - Wikipedia

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    Fear of negative evaluation (FNE) or fear of failure, [1] also known as atychiphobia, [2] is a psychological construct reflecting " apprehension about others' evaluations, distress over negative evaluations by others, and the expectation that others would evaluate one negatively". The construct and a psychological test to measure it were ...

  4. Hamlet and His Problems - Wikipedia

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    Hamlet and His Problems is an essay written by T. S. Eliot in 1919 that offers a critical reading of Hamlet. The essay first appeared in Eliot's The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism in 1920. It was later reprinted by Faber & Faber in 1932 in Selected Essays, 1917-1932. [1] Eliot's critique gained attention partly due to his claim ...

  5. Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

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    Emotions. v. t. e. Schadenfreude (/ ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. It is a borrowed word from German; the English word for it ...

  6. List of Latin phrases (M) - Wikipedia

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    much in little. Conciseness. The term "mipmap" is formed using the phrase's abbreviation "MIP"; motto of Rutland, a county in central England. Latin phrases are often multum in parvo, conveying much in few words. mundus senescit. the world grows old. mundus vult decipi. the world wants to be deceived.

  7. Self-conscious emotions - Wikipedia

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    Due to the nature of these emotions, they can only begin to form once an individual has the capacity to self-evaluate their own actions. If the individual decides that they have caused a situation to occur, they then must decide if the situation was a success or a failure based on the social norms they have accrued, then attach the appropriate self-conscious feeling (Weiner, 1986).

  8. Suffering - Wikipedia

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    Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, [1] may be an experience of unpleasantness or aversion, possibly associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual. [2] Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena. The opposite of suffering is pleasure or happiness.

  9. Sadness - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Sadness is an emotional pain associated with, or characterized by, feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, grief, helplessness, disappointment and sorrow. An individual experiencing sadness may become quiet or lethargic, and withdraw themselves from others. An example of severe sadness is depression, a mood which can be brought on by ...