![]() There are psychologists who define emotions as conscious experience. ![]() There are biologically-oriented researchers who define emotions as very close to simple biological states, or electro-chemical reactions. “Different researchers,” Mayer continues, “define emotions differently. (Jack) Mayer, a researcher who in partnership with Peter Salovey provided the first formal definition and experimental measurement of “emotional intelligence,” explains: “Although scientific language is often precise, sometimes it may be left more open-ended, because we scientists recognize as a group that we don’t have final answers to questions like, ‘what is an emotion?’ or ‘what is a feeling?’ or ‘what are core emotions?'” While scholars, teachers, and the rest of us use the words “emotion” and “feeling” on a regular basis, it turns out that labels are somewhat arbitrary. “Our emotions are shaped by our beliefs - by what we tell ourselves.” “There are emotions which are more biologically oriented and then there are complex emotions which are saturated with thoughts and cognition.” “There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.” “Emotions are the glue that holds the cells of the organism together.”
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |