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Emotions and personality : take 2
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Emotions and personailty : take 3
Image by DraconianRain via Flickr I have written two previous posts regarding the relationship between emotions and personality. This is the third part focusing on the relationship between emotions...
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Personality and emotion: take 4
Image via Wikipedia I’ve written about the relation between personality and emotion from my perspective, but was gladdened when I found Scherer has written on the matter in a very eloquent and apt...
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Positive emotions increase with old age; while negative emotions decline
Image via Wikipedia As per a new study reported in PNAS, positive emotions and hedonic well being, like happiness and enjoyment, increase past the age of 50 (after reaching a nadir at that age) ,...
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The Eight Rasas/Emotions (contd)
Image via Wikipedia In the last post we looked at the eight Rasas and how they are related to the eight color terms and the eight basic emotions. Another list of basic emotions follows from the work...
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Love and Work
#180541146 / gettyimages.com Love and work are two cornerstones of adult human life. The capacity to love and work adequately was considered by Freud as important for our well-being. Adult romantic or...
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Emotions and Personality : take 7
Today I want to approach the question of emotions and personality from an existential lens. In my last post I alluded to the existential givens and you can read more about them here [pdf]. English:...
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Emotions as a Result of Approach and Avoidance
There is a powerful theory in psychology, proposed by Carver and Scheier, about how emotions arise as an indication of how we are progressing towards our goals. Today’s post will be elaborating and...
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Am happy, will broaden-and-build; am angry, will narrow-and-save
Image via Wikipedia Regular readers of this blog will be aware of my conception of positive emotions in terms of promotion focus and negative emotions in terms of prevention focus. Today I will try...
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Basic emotions: the eight stage model fits again!
Image via Wikipedia I had been struggling with the how many and what framework to use for defining the basic emotions and especially as I was sure that there would be eight basic emotions/emotion...
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Emotions and personality : take 2
Image via Wikipedia In my last post, I laid forth my claim that personality and emotions are interrelated; in this post I want to review the affective literature to come up with the different types of...
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Emotions and personailty : take 3
Image by DraconianRain via Flickr I have written two previous posts regarding the relationship between emotions and personality. This is the third part focusing on the relationship between emotions...
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Personality and emotion: take 4
Image via Wikipedia I’ve written about the relation between personality and emotion from my perspective, but was gladdened when I found Scherer has written on the matter in a very eloquent and apt...
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