Emotion is a biological arousal produced in response to a stimulus.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."vandenBos, Gary B. (2006). APA Dictionary of Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association 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 Etymology Emotion is derived from French émotion, from émouvoir, 'excite' based on Latin emovere, fro

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