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Mood-Congruent Memory - The tendency to recall memories that match one's current emotional state.
Subjective Wellbeing - A person's own evaluation of their life including emotional experiences and life satisfaction.
Broaden and Build - Barbara Fredrickson's theory that positive emotions expand awareness and build lasting resources.
Emotional Granularity - The ability to make fine-grained distinctions between similar emotions, using precise emotional vocabulary.
Amygdala - The brain's emotional processing center, responsible for detecting threats and triggering fear responses.
Time Perception - Our subjective experience of time varies based on our emotional state, attention, and engagement level.
Interoception - The sense of the internal state of the body, including signals like hunger, temperature, and heart rate.
Defense Mechanisms - Unconscious psychological strategies used by the ego to protect itself from anxiety and distressing thoughts or feelings.
Positivity - A mental orientation that focuses on favorable aspects of situations, maintains hopeful expectations, and cultivates positive emotions.
Ostrich Effect - The tendency to avoid or ignore negative information, hoping that it will go away if not acknowledged.
Window of Tolerance - The optimal zone of nervous system arousal where we can function effectively and cope with stress.
Nostalgia Effect - The tendency to prefer past choices, experiences, or products based on nostalgic feelings rather than objective evaluation.
Positivity Ratio - The balance of positive to negative emotional experiences that predicts flourishing.
Regret Aversion - The tendency to avoid taking actions that might lead to feelings of regret, even when those actions would be objectively beneficial.
Depression - A mood disorder characterized by persistent sadness, loss of interest, and various cognitive and physical symptoms.
Positive Emotions - Pleasant emotional states like joy, gratitude, and contentment that enhance wellbeing and capability.
Emotional Regulation - The ability to manage and respond to emotional experiences in adaptive, healthy ways.
Cognitive Triangle - A CBT model illustrating how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected and influence each other.
Cingulate Cortex - A brain region involved in emotion, decision-making, and cognitive control.
Glucksshuld - The guilt one feels at one's own good fortune - the inverse of Schadenfreude.
State-Dependent Memory - The phenomenon where information learned in a particular internal state is best retrieved when in that same state.
Mood Tracking - The practice of recording emotional states over time to identify patterns and improve emotional awareness.
Impact Bias - The tendency to overestimate the intensity and duration of future emotional reactions to events.
Languishing - A state of mental stagnation and emptiness characterized by a sense of joylessness and aimlessness without meeting the criteria for clinical depression.
Hot-Cold Empathy Gap - The difficulty of predicting how we'll feel or act when in a different emotional state.
Fading Affect Bias - The psychological phenomenon where emotional intensity associated with negative memories fades faster than that of positive memories over time.
Apatheia - The Stoic state of freedom from destructive emotional disturbance.
Anxiety - A state of worry, unease, or fear about uncertain future events, ranging from normal to clinical levels.
Pessimism Bias - The tendency to overestimate the likelihood of negative outcomes and underestimate the probability of positive events.
Somatic Marker Hypothesis - Theory that bodily sensations (somatic markers) guide decision-making by associating emotional responses with past outcomes.
Emotional Burnout - A nervous system breakdown caused by accumulated emotional stress and pressure.
Limbic System - The brain's emotional processing center, responsible for emotions, memories, and arousal.
Hedonia - The pursuit of pleasure and positive emotional experiences as a path to wellbeing.
Emotional Contagion - The automatic transmission of emotions between people through social interaction.
Emotional Control - The ability to manage and regulate emotional responses to situations.

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