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Psychologist Explanation: What Are Feelings
08.11.2023 02:00
Updated: 13.05.2024 21:22
A feeling is a complex and constant emotional experience of a person, relatively stable and long-lasting. Feeling includes a wide range of emotions.
Experiences of feelings are unique to people and are socially conditioned.
What is the difference between emotions and feelings
Emotion manifests itself more vividly and intensely, it can be expressed in the form of joy, anger, fear or sadness.
The feeling can be more subtle and hidden, for example, love, gratitude or regret.
Feelings arise from emotions, not the other way around.
It is longer and more stable, more complex and diverse.
How are feelings expressed
Feelings are expressed in emotions, they are always objective, that is, we experience feelings for other people, or objects, or phenomena of the surrounding reality that have personal significance for us.
What can be classified as feelings
They were joy, sadness, surprise, desire, love, hate.
In the 70s of the twentieth century, psychologist Paul Ekman named the same number, but collected a different set of feelings.
According to his definition, happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, surprise and anger should be included among those inherent to all people and cultures.
