Human emotions are responsible for making us shudder, cry, laugh, feel happy, unhappy, overwhelmed… Within the field of medicine and, specifically, psychology, different types of emotions have been identified that are worth knowing. In this article, we have reviewed the 5 most common ones and they are divided depending on a series of criteria accepted by the medical community. Here they are.
Primary or basic emotions
It’s one of the most elementary types of emotions we human beings have. They are characterized by appearing as an external stimulus-response. These emotions are as follows:
– Sadness
– Happiness
– Surprise
– Disgust.
– Fear.
– Anger.
We are facing intrinsic emotions to the human being and which appear independently of the culture in which we are born or grew.
Secondary emotions
Another emotion that is studied is those known as secondary schools and that, therefore, are the ones that appear at the top of the first emotion that we have felt (the basic); that is, it would be the chain reaction that generates that first emotion.
For example, if we’re watching a love movie, maybe the first emotion we feel is happiness, but then followed by sadness. These emotional reactions will always depend on the experiences of each person and the moment of his life in which he or she finds herself.
Positive emotions
In addition to classifying emotions depending on your order of appearance, these can also be classified if we value the degree to which they are presented in our mind. Therefore, these emotions will affect our behavior and make us feel better or worse.
Positive emotions are what make us well and, therefore, are also known as healthy emotions. Some of these are:
– Joy
– Gratitude
– Satisfaction
– Etc.
Negative emotions
But, of course, within the types of emotions, there are also the negatives that would be the other side of the currency of the previous ones. These emotions negatively affect us and make us worse. These are emotions that can be considered toxic and that we usually tend to avoid them so we don’t feel bad.
Some examples of negative emotions would be fear, sadness, etc. However, it is important to face negative emotions because they are part of the experience of life. Repressing this kind of emotion will prevent us from allowing ourselves to feel life in its fullness and from learning from the experiences we live in.
Static emotions
Other emotions are known as static and refer to those that appear when we enjoy an artistic manifestation such as music, painting, dance, poetry, etc.
For example, if you read poetry, that reading will generate an emotion and this emotion won’t be the same as you feel when you live something in the first person and about your own life. It is a different emotion and that is especially linked to artistic experience, in that context and enjoying that work of art in question.
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