Feelings

Abilities
Arousal
Attitude
Behavior
Beliefs
Competencies
Engagement
Environment
EI
Experience (nurture)
Feelings
Intention
Motivation
Nature (genes)
Organizational Level
Performance
Performance Improvement
Performer Level
Process Level
Results
Skills
Social Pressure
Talent
Understanding
Values

Feeling is largely thought to be a mapping of a particular body state by the mind in which a mental image (map) is formed. Thus, feeling, in essence, is an idea. In turn, that idea resides within the person.

This "mapping" of the body is composed of sensory feelings, called affects that are directly evoked by specific inputs from the internal self and/or external environment. They include such evaluative experiences as hunger, thirst, pain, and sweetness (Johnston). Feelings are not neutral, but rather hedonic in that they are either positive or negative, such as pleasantness or unpleasantness.

Unlike emotions, such as pride or anger, they occur in the absence of any complex cognitive processes.

Reference

Johnston, Victor S. (1999). Why We Feel: The Science of Human Emotions. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, p.61.

Notes

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