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Variety of children’s emotions.
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The task of classifying emotions is to bring at least some order in the sphere of emotions and feelings, to enable researchers and practitioners to more accurately speak about what emotions and feelings they are talking about in one way or another. context ↑.
Note: both in life and in psychological practice, feelings and emotions are not always separated and more often combined into one category (emotions-feelings), and in this article, if we say “emotions”, we also mean “feelings”. For the difference between emotions and feelings, see →
The variety of classifications of emotions/feelings is great. It is likely that it is generally impossible to create a universal classification of emotions, and a classification that served well for solving one range of problems must inevitably be replaced by another when solving a different range of problems.
The main classification criteria are innateness, attitude to instincts, density of neural activity, attitude to adaptive biological processes, ability to control, etc.
Characteristics of emotions and feelings
Characteristics describe differences not in internal structure, but in external manifestations of emotions. Thus, according to their characteristics, emotions (feelings) are deep and superficial, unambiguous and ambivalent, positive and negative, positive and negative, of varying degrees of awareness and significantly controlled to varying degrees. See more about this →
Types of emotions and feelings
The variety of types of emotions and feelings tells about their essential differences, differences in their internal structure and internal processes. In this regard, emotions and feelings are divided into basic and variable, elementary and composite, cognitively simple and complex, as well as emotional actions and reactions … Further — even more difficult, see →
Classification of feelings by areas of activity
The most common classification of feelings identifies their individual subspecies according to the areas of activity in which they manifest themselves. Accordingly, social, intellectual, moral, cognitive, religious, parental, aesthetic and other feelings differ. See →
Periodic system of emotions
Max Luscher believes that he created the Periodic Table of Emotions. Look at his website
Related concepts
State — a long-term change in its functional state.
A reflex reaction is a short change in one’s functional state.
An experience is an ongoing emotional state, replaying the same event several times, returning in circles over and over again to what has already happened.
Emotional state — emotions minus expressive movements. Rapid movements from one functional state to another (or between them) and experiences of these movements