Can You Tell Me The Different Theories Of Emotion?

A major problem in the field of emotion has been the wide variety of
definitions that have been proposed. In an attempt to resolve the
resulting terminological confusion, 92 definitions and 9 skeptical
statements were compiled from a variety of sources in the literature of
emotion. These definitions and statements were classified into an
outline of 11 categories, on the basis of the emotional phenomena or
theoretical issues emphasized. There are two traditional experiential
categories of affect and cognition; three physical categories of
external emotional stimuli, physiological mechanisms, and
emotional/expressive behavior; definitions that emphasize disruptive or
adaptive effects; definitions that emphasize the multiaspect nature of
emotional phenomena, those that distinguish emotion from other
processes, and those that emphasize the overlap between emotion and
motivation; and skeptical or disparaging statements about the
usefulness of the concept of emotion.
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