"Emotional" redirects here. For other uses see
Emotional (disambiguation) An emotion is a "complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioral, and physiological elements, by which the individual attempts to deal with a personally significant matter of event." It arises without conscious effort and is either positive or negative in its
valence. Other closely related terms are:
affect, a synonym for emotion
affect display, external display of emotion
disposition, referring to a durable differentiating characteristic of a person, a tendency to react to situations with a certain emotion
feeling, which usually refers to the
subjective,
phenomenological aspect of emotion
mood, which refers to an emotional state of duration intermediate between an emotion and a disposition
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