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EMOTION [17 records]

Record 1 2024-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

Repressed emotions do not disappear, and usually end up causing distress in some way.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

Cette forme de thérapie consiste à reconnaître et à surmonter des sentiments négatifs et des émotions refoulées dans le but d'améliorer la relation que le client entretient avec lui-même, avec autrui et avec le monde qui l'entoure.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
CONT

In constrast to traditional approaches, the TCE suggests that each experienced emotion emerges not from a specific, dedicated anatomical circuit, but from an interplay of broad networks in the brain that are involved in general operations of the mind. Instances of each emotion category (i.e., fear, anger, happiness, etc.) are represented by a pattern within these networks that is situation specific and individually different.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
CONT

Il peut s'agir de la faim, la colère, l'irritation, la détermination, l'hyperthermie, l'abandon, le rejet, la culpabilité, les couleurs, les vêtements trop serrés, la dette de sommeil, les émotions, la monnaie, etc. [...] Ces concepts ne sont pas réellement engrangés dans une zone du cerveau, ils sont construits à chaque instant pour un objectif précis (selon la théorie de l'émotion construite).

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

Primary emotions are direct emotional responses which have a biological adaptative focus and which cannot be reduced to another emotion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

Les émotions primaires sont les émotions qui surviennent comme réactions directes et immédiates à des stimuli externes, tandis que les émotions secondaires et instrumentales sont des émotions qui suivent (séquentiellement) les émotions primaires ou bien qui sont socialement influencées ou médiatisées.

Spanish

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Record 4 2024-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

Unlike what toxic positivity suggests, positive mental health requires recognizing and experiencing all emotions, both negative and positive. Recognizing, understanding and accepting negative emotions are essential steps toward good mental health.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

Contrairement à ce que laisse croire la positivité toxique, une santé mentale positive nécessite de reconnaître et faire l'expérience de toutes les émotions, qu'elles soient négatives ou positives. Reconnaître, comprendre et accepter les émotions négatives sont des étapes essentielles à une bonne santé mentale.

Spanish

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Record 5 2024-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

Unlike what toxic positivity suggests, positive mental health requires recognizing and experiencing all emotions, both negative and positive. ... Plus, experiencing negative emotions doesn't negate the possibility of simultaneously experiencing positive emotions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

Contrairement à ce que laisse croire la positivité toxique, une santé mentale positive nécessite de reconnaître et faire l'expérience de toutes les émotions, qu'elles soient négatives ou positives. [...] D'ailleurs, avoir des émotions négatives n'annule pas la possibilité de vivre, simultanément, des émotions positives.

Spanish

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Record 6 2024-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

Individuals can also respond through instrumental emotions. These emotions are considered the most inauthentic and appear when individuals cannot express their real needs. Individuals display rather than express instrumental emotions, and these emotions are defined as manipulative as they are designed to trigger a response in others.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

Les émotions primaires sont les émotions qui surviennent comme réactions directes et immédiates à des stimuli externes, tandis que les émotions secondaires et instrumentales sont des émotions qui suivent (séquentiellement) les émotions primaires ou bien qui sont socialement influencées ou médiatisées.

Spanish

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Record 7 2024-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

Secondary emotions: narrative reactions to primary emotions. For example, you feel disappointed because you made a mistake at work and tell yourself this means "I'm a failure" or "I'm terrible at my job", and consequently, you feel shame. Secondary emotions contribute to emotional suffering because of the story attached.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

Les émotions primaires sont les émotions qui surviennent comme réactions directes et immédiates à des stimuli externes, tandis que les émotions secondaires et instrumentales sont des émotions qui suivent (séquentiellement) les émotions primaires ou bien qui sont socialement influencées ou médiatisées.

Spanish

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Record 8 2024-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
  • Social Psychology
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
  • Sociology
CONT

... emotion-focused coping refers to cognitive and behavioral strategies aimed at ameliorating or managing the emotional response (i.e., distress) associated with the stressful situation (e.g., venting of emotions through crying or yelling, restructuring personal perception of the problem ...

Key term(s)
  • emotion focused coping

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
  • Psychologie sociale
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
  • Sociologie

Spanish

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Record 9 2023-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Climate Change
CONT

Climate emotions are defined as affective phenomena which are significantly related to the climate crisis, even though there may be many kinds of factors influencing people's emotions at a certain moment ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Changements climatiques

Spanish

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Record 10 2019-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Psychology
OBS

[ISEFT's mission is] to promote the practice of emotion focused therapy (EFT).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Psychologie

Spanish

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Record 11 2018-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mental Disorders
  • Sociology of Human Relations
  • Human Behaviour
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

... a measure of an individual's critical and/or emotionally overinvolved attitudes toward another person.

CONT

Expressed emotion within families was a good predictor of schizophrenia relapse, especially for those with more chronic or long-lasting schizophrenic symptoms. However, the impact of expressed emotion on relapse was greater for depression and for eating disorders than for schizophrenia ...

PHR

high expressed emotion, low expressed emotion

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles mentaux
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
  • Comportement humain
  • Psychologie clinique
CONT

L'émotion exprimée (EE) mesure une [...] forme de communication familiale perturbée, notamment le mode de réaction hostile, critique et excessivement impliqué à l'égard du membre schizophrène de la famille [...]

PHR

faible émotion exprimée, forte émotion exprimée

Spanish

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Record 12 1994-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Psychology
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

[The study analyzes] the decoding of emotional facial expressions [and] how the proposed identification of the contribution of different facial components to the prototypes of different facial emotional expressions is to be accomplished ... the approach taken ... to collecting data from 5-6 and 9-10 years-old on their judgements of the quality of emotional expressions and their intensities is inadequately outlined. The empirical and theoretical work done ... on the development of emotional facial recognition in ontogeny is not adequately reviewed.

CONT

Comprehension and expression of affect in language-impaired (LI) children : 8 children with developmental language impairment and 8 age-, sex-, socioeconomic-status-, and I.Q.-matched controls were given tests of comprehension and expression of affective intent in spoken language and through facial expression ... On tasks involving emotional facial expression, [these results] were observed: The Li children were more dramatic in their expression of facial affect than were the controls. Children with language impairment appear to have a deficit in affective comprehension and expression that is modality-specific, i.e., limited to vocal affect ... To date little evidence is available as to how emotional facial expression is decoded, specifically whether a bottom-up (data-driven) or a top-down (schema-driven) approach is more appropriate in explaining the decoding of emotions from facial expression. A study is reported ... in which decoders judged emotions from photographs of facial expressions. Stimuli represented a selection of photographs depicted both single muscular movements (action units) in an otherwise neutral face, and combinations of such action units ... Schizophrenics, depressives, patients with anxiety neurosis and normal controls were asked to comment freely for 2 minutes on photographs depicting 7 facial emotional expressions .... [Source: PASCAL database].

Key term(s)
  • emotion from facial expression

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie sociale
  • Comportement humain

Spanish

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Record 13 1993-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Slogans
  • Tourism

French

Domaine(s)
  • Slogans
  • Tourisme

Spanish

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Record 14 1986-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Performing Arts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts du spectacle
OBS

Cinéma.

Spanish

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Record 15 1986-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Performing Arts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts du spectacle
OBS

(cinéma) -10-

Spanish

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Record 16 1981-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

(W. McDougall) Emotions associated with a prospective outcome of an event, such as disappointment, hope, relief, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 17 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Heart

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cœur

Spanish

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