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Everything about Emotion

Conscious subjective experience

Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological and neuropsychological changes, variously associated with subjective experiences such as thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. There is no scientific consensus on a definition. Emotions are often intertwined with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, or creativity. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: EmotionA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Using Regularized Graph Neural NetworksInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The Art of LovingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation.Cited 16,399 times
  5. Go sideways: Affective scienceA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Evolution of emotionA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun Movement; agitation.

Noun A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.

Noun A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Etymology
  2. History
  3. Definitions
  4. Components
  5. Differentiation
  6. Classification
  7. Theories
  8. Formation
  9. Disciplinary approaches
  10. Effects on memory
  11. Notable theorists

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

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