emotions - Concepts
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- Amygdala - The brain's emotional processing center, responsible for detecting threats and triggering fear responses.
- Anxiety - A state of worry, unease, or fear about uncertain future events, ranging from normal to clinical levels.
- Apatheia - The Stoic state of freedom from destructive emotional disturbance.
- Broaden and Build - Barbara Fredrickson's theory that positive emotions expand awareness and build lasting resources.
- Cingulate Cortex - A brain region involved in emotion, decision-making, and cognitive control.
- Depression - A mood disorder characterized by persistent sadness, loss of interest, and various cognitive and physical symptoms.
- Emotional Burnout - A nervous system breakdown caused by accumulated emotional stress and pressure.
- Emotional Contagion - The automatic transmission of emotions between people through social interaction.
- Emotional Control - The ability to manage and regulate emotional responses to situations.
- Emotional Granularity - The ability to make fine-grained distinctions between similar emotions, using precise emotional vocabulary.
- Emotional Regulation - The ability to manage and respond to emotional experiences in adaptive, healthy ways.
- Glucksshuld - The guilt one feels at one's own good fortune - the inverse of Schadenfreude.
- Hedonia - The pursuit of pleasure and positive emotional experiences as a path to wellbeing.
- Hot-Cold Empathy Gap - The difficulty of predicting how we'll feel or act when in a different emotional state.
- Interoception - The sense of the internal state of the body, including signals like hunger, temperature, and heart rate.
- Limbic System - The brain's emotional processing center, responsible for emotions, memories, and arousal.
- Positive Emotions - Pleasant emotional states like joy, gratitude, and contentment that enhance wellbeing and capability.
- Positivity Ratio - The balance of positive to negative emotional experiences that predicts flourishing.
- Subjective Wellbeing - A person's own evaluation of their life including emotional experiences and life satisfaction.
- Time Perception - Our subjective experience of time varies based on our emotional state, attention, and engagement level.
- Window of Tolerance - The optimal zone of nervous system arousal where we can function effectively and cope with stress.
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