Emotion is a complex
psychophysiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with
biochemical and
environmental influences. In
humans, emotion fundamentally involves "
physiological arousal, expressive
behaviors, and
conscious experience."
Emotion is associated with
mood,
temperament,
personality,
disposition, and
motivation. Motivations direct and energize behavior, while emotions provide the affective component to motivation, positive or negative.
Emotions are defined as feeling states with physiological, cognitive, and behavioral components. Strong emotions arouse the autonomic nervous system. The greater the arousal the more intense the emotion. It also appears that the type of arousal affects the emotion being experienced. Although the work emotion might seem to be about feeling and not about thinking, cognitions-particularly interpretations of the meanings of events--are important aspects of emotions. Fear, which usually occurs in response to a threat, involves cognitions that one is in danger as well as arousal of the sympathetic nervous system. Emotions also involve behavioral tendencies. No definitive
emotion classification system exists, though numerous
taxonomies have been proposed. Some categorizations include:
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