Emotions

Emotion is a subjective feeling and the experience of emotions varies from person to person. In psychology, attempts have been made to identify basic emotions. It has been noted that at least six emotions are experienced and recognised everywhere. These are: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. Izard has proposed a set of ten basic emotions, i.e. joy, surprise, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame, guilt, interest, and excitement with combinations of them resulting in other emotional blends. These emotions are arranged in four pairs of Opposites, i.e. joy-sadness, acceptance-disgust, fear-anger, and surprise-anticipation.

EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONS

Do you get to know that your friend is happy or sad or indifferent? Does s/he understand your feelings? Emotion is an internal experience not directly observable by others. Emotions are inferred from verbal and nonverbal expressions. These verbal and nonverbal expressions act as the channels of communication and enable an individual to express one’s emotions and to understand the feelings of others.