A functional account of emotions posits that emotions facilitate adaptive responses to environmental challenges. In other words, emotions are systems...

differentiates emotions as functional or dysfunctional and argues all functional emotions have benefits. In some uses of the word, emotions are intense feelings...

On "basic emotion" accounts, activation of an emotion, such as anger, sadness, or fear, is "triggered" by the brain's appraisal of a stimulus or event...

and emotion-related behavior (bodily actions or expressions). Functionally, emotion regulation can also refer to processes such as the tendency to focus...

Functional neurologic disorder or functional neurological disorder (FND) is a condition in which patients experience neurological symptoms such as weakness...

an important social emotion establishing "inequity aversion". Schadenfreude is a term borrowed from German. It is a compound of Schaden ("damage/harm")...

Emotionally focused therapy and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) are related humanistic approaches to psychotherapy that aim to resolve emotional and relationship...

of subfields including functional, mechanistic, cognitive bias tests, self-medicating, spindle neurons, vocalizations and neurology. While emotions in...

as functional in the sense of working together, and are effectively deemed to have "lives" of their own. They are primarily analyzed in terms of this...

learning which parts of our surroundings are important and have emotional significance. They are critical for the production of emotion. They are known to...

The sociology of emotions applies sociological theorems and techniques to the study of human emotions. As sociology emerged primarily as a reaction to...

Systemic functional grammar (SFG) is a form of grammatical description originated by Michael Halliday. It is part of a social semiotic approach to language...

experience refers to the first-hand involvement or direct experiences and choices of a given person, and the knowledge that they gain from it, as opposed to the...

Functional disorders are a group of recognisable medical conditions which are due to changes to the functioning of the systems of the body rather than...

noted that pride is a complex secondary emotion that requires the development of a sense of self and the mastery of relevant conceptual distinctions (e.g...

aspect of the appraisal theory is that it accounts for individual variability in emotional reactions to the same event. Appraisal theories of emotion are...

should be more than something functional and/or aesthetically pleasing and it should evoke an emotion through the use of pleasures. Although it is hard...

pleasure centers of the brain – are functionally linked. Activation of one hotspot results in the recruitment of the others. Inhibition of one hotspot results...

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emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. Usually, a participant views images of faces, objects, places, bodies...

Tor; Taylor, SF.; Liberzon, l (June 1, 2002). "Functional Neuroanatomy of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Emotion Activation Studies in PET and fMRI". NeuroImage...

share similar retrograde loss of memory. Also, although no functional damage or brain lesions are evident in the case of pure retrograde amnesia, unlike...

example of rigidity is functional fixedness, which is a difficulty conceiving new uses for familiar objects. Rigidity is an ancient part of our human...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow. This technique...

for each of the connectives in propositional logic. The most thoroughly researched branch of propositional logic is classical truth-functional propositional...

by negative emotions, experiencing intense grief instead of sadness, shame and humiliation instead of mild embarrassment, rage instead of annoyance, and...

challenges in recognizing, expressing, sourcing, and describing one's emotions. It is associated with difficulties in attachment and interpersonal relations...

attention, word fluency, emotion processing, and decision making." In contrast to the abundance of research centered on positive symptoms of the disorder, fMRI...

Functional attitude theory (FAT) suggests that beliefs and attitudes are influential to various psychological functions. Attitudes can be influential on...

voice would be devoid of emotion. Along the same lines, though, the person may also exhibit excessive, unwarranted displays of emotion. Depression is common...