The Feeling Wheel (FW) is a beneficial tool to use when working on emotional efficacy. The FW is divided into many sections. The top half of the FW identifies more negative emotions and the bottom half, more positive emotions.

Emotional mapping is a very powerful geoparticipation tool, what helps us to get knowledge about the places thanks to the smallest map unit – person. Emotional maps connect individuals emotions with a specific place and have its own benefit for the city strategy planning or in development of public facilities.

Emotional maps are known as a concept mainly within the western geography school. Emotional maps allow users to get involved in the process of collecting information related to their emotional links with their environment.

A feelings chart is a great way to help them broaden that knowledge. To do this, take turns choosing a random feeling on the chart and ask them to share a time when they felt this way. This simple exercise will help them go beyond just the basic emotions and be able to better identify how they are feeling.

Identifying Your Feelings

1. Start by taking your emotional temperature.
2. Identify your stressors.
3. Notice if you start judging what you feel.
4. Speak about your feelings, and let go of the fear.

Feelings and Emotions Vocabulary Word List

• acceptance. admiration. adoration. affection.
• beleaguered. bewitched. bitterness. bliss.
• calculating. calm. capricious. caring.
• defeated. defiance. delighted. dependence.
• eager. earnest. easy-going. ecstasy.
• fascinated. fatalistic. fear. fearful.
• generous. glad. gloating. gloomy.
• happiness. happy. harried.

Robert Plutchik’s theory

• Fear → feeling of being afraid , frightened, scared.
• Anger → feeling angry.
• Sadness → feeling sad.
• Joy → feeling happy.
• Disgust → feeling something is wrong or nasty.
• Surprise → being unprepared for something.
• Trust → a positive emotion; admiration is stronger; acceptance is weaker.

You can find more love words by looking at the definitions of terms used to refer to people in love or love itself.

• adore – loving someone very much.
• affection – a tender and warm feeling toward someone; extreme fondness.
• amorous – feeling desire for a romantic or physical connection.

Terms in this set (10)

• Joy.
• Excitement.
• Surprise.
• Sadness.
• Anger.
• Disgust.
• Contempt.
• Fear.

It is widely supported within the scientific community that there are seven basic emotions, each with its own unique and distinctive facial expression. These seven are: Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger, Contempt and Surprise.

10 Obscure Emotions That Actually Exist – And Their Names [VIDEOS]

1. 1 – Sonder. Sonder is that feeling when you realize that everyone you see, everyone who passes you by has their own complex life.
2. 2 – Zenosyne.
3. 3 – Chrysalism.
4. 4 – Monachopsis.
5. 5 – Lachesism.
6. 6 – Rubatosis.
7. 7 – Klexos.
8. 8 – Jouska.

There are four kinds of basic emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and anger, which are differentially associated with three core affects: reward (happiness), punishment (sadness), and stress (fear and anger).

Fear

In order to better understand what emotions are, let’s focus on their three key elements, known as the subjective experience, the physiological response, and the behavioral response.

If we summarized all the research done toward labeling the basic human emotions we would generally conclude there are 5 basic emotions: joy, fear, sadness, disgust and anger.

The most frequent emotion was joy, followed by love and anxiety. People experienced positive emotions 2.5 times more often than negative emotions, but also experienced positive and negative emotions simultaneously relatively frequently.

Of all the different types of emotions, happiness tends to be the one that people strive for the most. Happiness is often defined as a pleasant emotional state that is characterized by feelings of contentment, joy, gratification, satisfaction, and well-being.

The 12 emotions according to the discrete emotion theory include:

• Interest.
• Joy.
• Surprise.
• Sadness.
• Anger.
• Disgust.
• Contempt.
• Self-hostility.

Based on their analysis, the scientists said the subjective experience of music across cultures can be mapped within at least 13 overarching feelings – amusement, joy, eroticism, beauty, relaxation, sadness, dreaminess, triumph, anxiety, scariness, annoyance, defiance, and feeling pumped up.

Most current theories of emotion do not include hope as an emotion (at least not a prototypic emotion). Averill bases his conclusion that hope is an emotion on the findings of a study that compared hope to two other emotions (love and anger).

In previous thought, it was understood that there were six distinct human emotions – happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust. But scientists have now found that the number is as many as 27.

fear

Ambivalence is a state of having simultaneous conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings towards some object. Explicit ambivalence may or may not be experienced as psychologically unpleasant when the positive and negative aspects of a subject are both present in a person’s mind at the same time. …

While somewhat broader than happy/sad, you could say ambivalent. Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone: Some loved her, some hated her, few were ambivalent about her.

Although it has long been thought that ambivalence is related to schizophrenia (Meehl, 1962), ambivalence has also been associated with depression (Raulin and Brenner, 1993).

Unfortunately, anger and sadness tend to feed into each other. We might feel a sense of anger or rage, whilst at the same time feel down and hopeless. This can make it hard to fathom which is both a confusing and painful experience – a situation that leaves us feeling somehow stuck between the two.

1 unhappy, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, gloomy, downcast, downhearted, depressed, dejected, melancholy.

The reason why you tend to recognize anger first is because ‘anger’ is generally less threatening at that time. It is only later (usually once the feeling emotional safety is reestablished) when-as you stated-you tend to realize that that what you are really feeling is sadness caused by “hurt” feelings.

Being Social. Talk to a friend. A major factor in happiness is social contact and support. Talking to a friend about your sadness or the situation that has caused your sadness can help lessen the pain because you will know that someone cares about you and your feelings.