Editing Emotion (section)

== Definitions ==
The [[Lexico]] definition of emotion is "A strong [[feeling]] deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lexico.com/definition/emotion|title=Emotion &#124; Definition of Emotion by Oxford Dictionary on Lexico.com also meaning of Emotion|website=Lexico Dictionaries &#124; English|access-date=2 March 2021|archive-date=9 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009004612/https://www.lexico.com/definition/emotion|url-status=dead}}</ref> Emotions are responses to significant internal and external events.<ref>Schacter, D.L., Gilbert, D.T., Wegner, D.M., & Hood, B.M. (2011). ''Psychology'' (European ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.{{ISBN?}}{{page?|date=May 2023}}</ref>

Emotions can be occurrences (e.g., [[panic]]) or dispositions (e.g., hostility), and short-lived (e.g., anger) or long-lived (e.g., [[grief]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|year=2018|chapter=Emotion|chapter-url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotion/#DefiEmotWhatDesi|access-date=16 November 2018|archive-date=11 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211114052/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotion/#DefiEmotWhatDesi|url-status=live}}</ref> Psychotherapist Michael C. Graham describes all emotions as existing on a continuum of intensity.<ref>{{cite book|title=Facts of Life: ten issues of contentment|last1=Graham|first1=Michael C.|date=2014|publisher=Outskirts Press|isbn=978-1478722595|page=63|name-list-style=vanc}}</ref> Thus fear might range from mild concern to terror or shame might range from simple embarrassment to toxic shame.<ref>{{cite book|title=Facts of Life: Ten Issues of Contentment|last1=Graham|first1=Michael C.|date=2014|publisher=Outskirts Press|isbn=978-1478722595|name-list-style=vanc}}</ref> Emotions have been described as consisting of a coordinated set of responses, which may include verbal, [[physiology|physiological]], behavioral, and [[nervous system|neural]] mechanisms.<ref name="Fox2008">{{cite book |last=Fox |first=Elaine |title=Emotion Science: An Integration of Cognitive and Neuroscientific Approaches |publisher=Palgrave MacMillan |year=2008 |isbn=978-0230005174 |pages=16–17 |name-list-style=vanc}}</ref>

Emotions have been [[emotion classification#Lists of emotions|categorize]]d, with some relationships existing between emotions and some direct opposites existing. Graham differentiates emotions as functional or dysfunctional and argues all functional emotions have benefits.<ref>{{cite book|title=Facts of Life: ten issues of contentment|last1=Graham|first1=Michael C.|date=2014|publisher=Outskirts Press|isbn=978-1478722595|name-list-style=vanc}}</ref>

In some uses of the word, emotions are intense feelings that are directed at someone or something.<ref name="ReferenceA">Hume, D. Emotions and Moods. Organizational Behavior, 258–97.</ref> On the other hand, emotion can be used to refer to states that are mild (as in annoyed or content) and to states that are not directed at anything (as in anxiety and depression). One line of research looks at the meaning of the word emotion in everyday language and finds that this usage is rather different from that in academic discourse.<ref name="Fehr & Russell">{{cite journal|vauthors=Fehr B, Russell JA|year=1984|title=Concept of Emotion Viewed from a Prototype Perspective|journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology: General|volume=113|issue=3|pages=464–486|doi=10.1037/0096-3445.113.3.464|s2cid=4825988 }}</ref>

In practical terms, [[Joseph E. LeDoux|Joseph LeDoux]] has defined emotions as the result of a cognitive and conscious process which occurs in response to a body system response to a trigger.<ref name=LeDoux>{{cite web|url=https://brainworldmagazine.com/on-fear-emotions-and-memory-an-interview-with-dr-joseph-ledoux/2/|title=On Fear, Emotions, and Memory: An Interview with Dr. Joseph LeDoux – Page 2 of 2 – Brain World|date=2018-06-06|access-date=16 November 2018|archive-date=9 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009004614/https://brainworldmagazine.com/on-fear-emotions-and-memory-an-interview-with-dr-joseph-ledoux/2/|url-status=live}}</ref>