Feelings and emotions

[artsol99]

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Hi guys. I am trying to understand the difference between feelings and emotions. I found this page http://www.authentic-systems.com/featured-articles/difference-between-emotions-and-feelings/

How reliable the information presented is?

Thank you very much.

 

[cara susanna]

I never really thought of them as that distinguishable from the other, tbh. I know that "feeling" is more your subjective experience of the bodily and psychological changes that emotions comprise.

 

[MBellows]

I really would avoid using depression as a feeling. It's more of a set of feelings and behaviors.

 

[erg923]

I never really thought of them as that distinguishable from the other, tbh. I know that "feeling" is more your subjective experience of the bodily and psychological changes that emotions comprise.

There are many "feelings." There are 6 basic "emotions." That's how I have always viewed it, anyway...

 

[MBellows]

There are many "feelings." There are 6 basic "emotions." That's how I have always viewed it, anyway...

"In the 1990s, Ekman expanded his list of basic emotions, including a range of positive and negative emotions that are not all encoded in facial muscles.[15] The newly included emotions are: Amusement, Contempt, Contentment, Embarrassment, Excitement, Guilt, Pride in achievement, Relief, Satisfaction, Sensory pleasure, and Shame."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ekman

 

[cara susanna]

There are the basic emotions, but you can also have combinations of them to form other emotions--or so the DBT skills manual says.

 

[deadmau5]

Hi guys. I am trying to understand the difference between feelings and emotions. I found this page http://www.authentic-systems.com/featured-articles/difference-between-emotions-and-feelings/

How reliable the information presented is?

Thank you very much.

Emotions have been described as discrete and consistent responses to internal or external events which have a particular significance for the organism. Emotions are brief in duration and consist of a coordinated set of responses, which may include verbal, physiological, behavioural, and neural mechanisms.[5] Emotions have also been described as biologically given and a result of evolution because they provided good solutions to ancient and recurring problems that faced our ancestors.[6]

Emotion can be differentiated from a number of similar constructs within the field of affective neuroscience:[5]

Feelings are best understood as a subjective representation of emotions, private to the individual experiencing them.

Moods are diffuse affective states that generally last for much longer durations than emotions and are also usually less intense than emotions.

Affect is an encompassing term, used to describe the topics of emotion, feelings, and moods together, even though it is commonly used interchangeably with emotion.

I trust it, because I wrote it myself, summarized from Elaine Fox's textbook on Emotion Science.