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Q. What are the 3 elements of emotion?
Key Elements of Emotions In order to better understand what emotions are, let’s focus on their three key elements, known as the subjective experience, the physiological response, and the behavioral response
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Q. What are the 5 main emotions?
The emotions he identified were happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, surprise, and anger He later expanded his list of basic emotions to include such things as pride, shame, embarrassment, and excitement
Q. What are our core emotions?
Core emotions are hard-wired in the middle part of our brains, meaning they are NOT subject to conscious control The core emotions are: sadness, fear, anger, joy, excitement, sexual excitement and disgust
Q. Can you be born without emotions?
No one is born without feelings Some are born without nerve endings, or a brain-disconnect to them They literally can’t feel pain, but they feel emotions Some in the category of mentally ill or disabled may also have a confused sense of emotional feeling, but it too is really more a displacement
Q. What do you call a person who has no emotions?
Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by the subclinical inability to identify and describe emotions experienced by one’s self or others
Q. What is an emotionally absent mother?
An emotionally absent mother is not fully present and especially not to the emotional life of the child She may be depressed, stretched too thin and exhausted, or perhaps a bit numb Many of these mothers were severely undermothered themselves and have no idea what a close parent-child relationship looks like
Q. Is alexithymia a disorder?
Researchers describe alexithymia as a construct relating to a difficulty experiencing, identifying, and expressing emotions It is not a clinical diagnosis, and mental health professionals do not consider it a disorder, although it may occur alongside some mental health conditions
