What is Emotion? Nature Features Components and Types of Emotion

What is Emotion? Nature Features Components and Types of Emotion

What is Emotion?

Emotion is one type of effect of stimulus, other types being mood, temperament and sensation. Emotions can be comprehended as either states or as processes. When understood as a state, an emotion is a type of mental state that interacts with other mental states and causes certain behaviors. Emotions are the part of the state of the mind. Basically, emotions are the body’s reaction to external or internal events. They are based on the interpretation of these events, and not on the event itself.

What is Emotion? Nature Features Components and Types of Emotion

Emotion plays an important role in human life. Emotion is a mental reaction whose expression or outcome is immediately seen.

Nature of Emotion:-

Nature of Emotion are discussed below –

    I. It is a conscious and subjective mental reaction towards a particular event and is usually accompanied by changes in the physiological and behavioral aspects.

   II. Emotion is a subjective experience.

  III. Emotions are needed for adaptation and survival, they influence a person on how he perceives the world.

   IV. Most distracting emotions are connected to being uninformed or misinformed.

What are the Features of Emotions?

The features of the emotion are discussed below –

a) Emotion has a wide range.

b) When an individual experiences an emotion, it has a reference to a particular object and not to a general situation.

c) Emotions have two resources. They are Direct perception and indirect or ideas.

d) Emotions are closely related with the working of biological needs.

e) Emotions are always accompanied by some internal changes which are known only to the individual who has experienced the emotions.

f) Emotions also bring about certain external changes which can be seen by others in the form of facial expressions or by behavioral pattern.

What are the components or factors of emotions?

Components of factors of emotions are –

a) Physical Change.

b) Changes in Behaviour and Emotional Expressions.

c) Emotional feelings.

In below we are sharing some instincts and their emotions related with the instincts –

 

     

Instincts	Emotions
Flight	Fear
Repulsion	Disgust
Pugnacity	Anger
Parental love	Tender Emotion
Appeal	Distress
Laughter	Amusement
Gregariousness	Loneliness
Self-Assertion	Positive
Food seeking	Appetite
Acquisitiveness	Feeling of Ownership
Constructiveness	Feeling of Creativeness
Curiosity	Wonder