What kind of thing is emotion? What are emotions and are there any classifications?

Emotions can be "contagious" from person to person. The contagion of emotions stems from the human instinct to imitate. Biologically, people are born to imitate others outwardly, as well as to receive their inner emotional state by imitating their external manifestations.

If your friend feels happy, they will show it by smiling, and you will smile with it, and through the act of "laughing", you will also really feel happy. No matter in **, people are mutually influential. We will subconsciously have such a tendency

Quickly synchronize with other people's facial expressions, voices, and gestures. As a result, we change our emotional state.

A normal person must have emotions, and joy, sadness, excitement, worry, etc. are also our innate basic reactions. When a person no longer reacts emotionally, the negative emotions are reduced, and the positive emotions are similarly reduced, just like a pendulum, if the amplitude of the pendulum is reduced to one side, the amplitude of the pendulum to the other side is also reduced. Without emotions, people become insensitive, indifferent to people and things, and this is not conducive to experiencing life and enjoying life.

If you have emotional ups and downs, you will be able to feel everything in life more, good and bad, feel different meanings and emotions, and be happy and sad. Life has also become richer because of the change of mood, and it is a kind of flavoring existence. You look at cats, dogs, and other animals, they also have emotions, but their emotions are not as strong and rich as human emotions, and their world is very simple.

Some people may think that simple is not good? It's not that it's bad, but that rich emotions not only make life colorful, but also promote the development and progress of other aspects.

Positive emotions are very beneficial to strengthen group cohesion, such as "I'm happy, stay with me". And negative emotions play a huge role in communicating information, such as "I smell a puff of smoke and I'm a little scared". Compared to other communication methods, emotions may be the quickest way to convey environmental information.

Emotions can quickly tell us whether the environment is safe or dangerous. There is no doubt that emotions come faster than words. Emotions lack clarity compared to verbal expressions, but have an advantage in speed.

Only emotions allow us to fully express our inner feelings. For example, when we get what we dream of, we can happily share our happiness with our peers. On the other hand, if we humans have no emotions, we will not be happy when we get what we want, we will not react if we lose an important person, and everyone is like a puppet.

So, how else do people communicate emotions with each other? What else does it mean to be alive? This is one of the most fundamental meanings of the existence of human emotions.

In our daily lives, we all need to make all kinds of decisions, big and small. And this decision-making process is often influenced by emotions that have nothing to do with the matter itself. Let's say you're driving to work in the morning and you're stuck in a traffic jam, which makes you feel tired early in the morning.

This kind of psychological emotion will actually unconsciously affect the decisions you make in the next work. Another common example is that when we invest and spend money, we often make wrong decisions because of emotions that have nothing to do with the investment object or the thing we buy.

We all use our own emotions to understand the meaning of the same emotions expressed by others. This is what we usually call empathy! Without the bridge of emotions, it is difficult for us to read the words and deeds of others.

In this respect, human emotions, whether positive or negative, have their existential significance. Positive emotions allow us to understand the satisfaction of others, and negative emotions allow us to understand the needs of others.

Because the emotions are varied and colorful, they also bring infinite fun to our lives. Although some negative emotions may seem to make us uncomfortable, their presence is still meaningful, and it reminds us of some psychological needs that we are not aware of. As for those positive emotions that bring us a lot of strength and happiness, there is no doubt about that.

Human beings have hundreds of emotions, and modern research often lists happiness, anger, sadness, and fear as the basic forms of emotions. Basic emotions are shared by humans and animals, and they are learned without learning, which is also called primitive emotions, and has cultural commonality. Emotions are a general term for a series of subjective cognitive experiences, which are psychological and physiological states that result from the synthesis of multiple feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.

Extended information: It is a general term for a series of subjective cognitive experiences, which are psychological and physiological states produced by the synthesis of multiple feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. The most common and popular emotions are joy, anger, sorrow, shock, fear, love, etc., as well as some delicate and subtle emotions such as jealousy, shame, shame, pride, etc.

Emotions often interact with factors such as mood, personality, temper, and purpose, and are also affected by hormones and neurotransmitters. Whether positive or negative, emotions can trigger motivation for action. Although some emotion-inducing behaviors may not seem to be thought about, consciousness is actually an important part of the production of emotions.

Human emotions are also inherently controlled.

Emotions can be categorized into innate "basic emotions" and acquired "complex emotions". Basic emotions are closely related to the survival of primitive humans, and complex emotions can only be learned through communication between people, so the number of complex emotions and the definition of emotions are different for each person.

And when we talk about emotional intelligence, we often refer to the emotional quotient, not the emotional quotient.

Psychologists and philosophers have been debating the exact meaning of "emotion" for more than 100 years. Emotion refers to the experience of attitudes towards external things that accompany the cognitive and conscious processes, and is the response of the human brain to the relationship between objective external things and the needs of the subject, and is a kind of psychological activity mediated by individual needs. There are more than 20 definitions of emotions, and although they are all different, they all recognize that emotions are made up of the following three components:

1.Emotions involve changes in the body, and these changes are the form of expression of emotions. 2.

Emotions involve the experience of being conscious of the edge. 3.Emotions contain a cognitive component, involving the evaluation of external things.

Since emotions and emotional expressions are easily confused, for example, the satisfaction of love is always accompanied by happiness, the relationship between emotions and emotions is an important aspect of debate and controversy in the definition of emotions.

Human emotions can be divided into many types, and there are different theories and opinions on the classification of specific types of emotions. Here are some common classifications of emotions:

Basic Emotions: According to Paul Ekman's research, basic human emotions can be divided into six types of emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise.

Neutral emotion: Neutral emotion refers to an emotional state that is neither overtly positive nor overtly negative, such as calm, apathetic, bored, etc.

In addition to the above common types of emotions, there are some other emotional subdivisions, such as nervousness and restlessness in anxiety symptoms, and hopelessness and helplessness in depression symptoms. In general, human emotions are diverse, and different emotional states can occur according to different situations and individual experiences.

There are thousands of emotions, including positive and negative emotions.