Emotions and feelings are all traits we share as humans. This education is necessary to understand the difference between feelings and emotions from a clinical perspective. While they have similar elements, there is a marked difference between feelings and emotions. Both emotional experiences and physical sensations — such as hunger or pain — bring about feelings, according to Psychology Today. Feelings are a conscious experience, although not every conscious experience, such as seeing or believing, is a feeling, as explained in the article.
These emotions can be brought to the surface of the conscious state through extended psychotherapy. A fundamental difference between feelings and emotions is that feelings are experienced consciously, while emotions manifest either consciously or subconsciously. Some people may spend years, or even a lifetime, not understanding the depths of their emotions.
The patterns of emotion that we found corresponded to 25 different categories of emotion: admiration, adoration, appreciation of beauty, amusement, anger, anxiety, awe, awkwardness, boredom, calmness, confusion, craving, disgust, empathic pain, entrancement, excitement, fear, horror, interest, joy, nostalgia, relief, sadness, satisfaction, and surprise.
Finally, we found that even though most of the videos were just around 5 s long, many of them caused people to feel more than one category of emotion.
In fact, a lot of the categories were blended together for many videos. This challenges the view that emotions are totally separate, like the characters in Inside Out. Instead, emotions are more like colors. Just as there are many different colors in between red and green—like yellow, orange, brown, laser lemon, electric lime, and so on—there seem to be many different emotions in between fear and disgust.
To visualize the 25 different dimensions of emotion and the blends between them, we developed a technique to build an interactive map of the emotions caused by each video, using a new kind of mathematical technique [ 5 ]. In the map, each video is represented by a letter corresponding to the emotion it causes the most, a color corresponding to the exact blend of emotions that it causes, and a location near other videos that caused similar emotions.
You can think of each letter as similar to one of the glass orbs from the movie Inside Out , where the color of each glass orb represents the emotion associated with the memory it contains. The difference here is that there are 25 colors instead of 5, and there are also blends between colors.
Hovering over each letter allows you to watch the video that it corresponds to. Figure 1 shows a non-interactive version of the map. We found that the structure of emotion is more complex than many scientists thought. Scientists who believed emotional experiences existed as just five or six basic categories, like the characters in Inside Out , were half correct. They were right in thinking that emotions are best represented as categories, like anger and fear. But they underestimated the number of distinct categories.
Also, they were wrong in thinking that these categories were completely independent, like the characters in the movie. Instead, many emotions can be blended together. Scientists who viewed emotional experiences as dimensions like valence and arousal were also half correct. They were right in doubting that there are rigid boundaries between emotions.
Instead, we see that emotions can be blended together. But they were wrong in thinking that only two dimensions, like valence and arousal, can explain the emotions people report feeling. These emotions are actually made up of at least 25 different dimensions. Beyond inspiring animated films like Inside Out , this research is important for a number of reasons. These findings might influence how scientists study various things, such as mood disorders like anxiety or depression , the way emotions are produced in the brain, and the design of machines that react appropriately to our emotional needs.
Scientists who study mood disorders, like anxiety and depression, can use this research to understand the range of different emotions these patients feel in their everyday lives. It might turn out that two patients with the same diagnosis, like depression, actually experience different patterns of emotion, and respond to different kinds of treatment. Scientists who study how the brain generates emotion can use this research to understand how different emotions could be represented in different brain regions.
For example, one brain region that is known to be involved in emotion, especially in states of fear, is called the amygdala, a small structure lodged deep within each side of the brain, between the ears. The amygdala helps us learn to be afraid of dangerous things and to rapidly respond to those things based on our past experiences [ 6 ].
Brain scientists could study whether different parts of the amygdala are involved in emotional responses that are related to fear, such as anxiety, horror, relief, and surprise. Such studies could help us understand the role of brain regions like the amygdala in emotion. Finally, scientists and engineers who develop machines that interact with humans, such as social media apps, iPhones, cars, and customer-service robots, can use this research to make sure their machines respond appropriately to our emotions.
These machines could give us tools for coping with negative emotions, like anxiety and fear, and promoting positive emotions, like adoration and awe. And emotions can involve behaviors, like yelling at someone when you are angry. A feeling is something that you experience internally, in your own mind, and that other people can understand based on your behavior. All but strictly necessary cookies are currently disabled for this browser. Turn on JavaScript to exercise your cookie preferences for all non-essential cookies.
You can read FutureLearn's Cookie policy here. Category: Learning. Here, he discusses the difference between thinking and feeling, and the role that instinct plays. The distinction between thinking and feeling cognition and emotion is obviously a fundamental one in relation to what the mind does. That is, they represent needs; they represent demands upon the mind to perform work. Feelings make us aware that something unexpected or something unpredicted or something uncertain is occurring. When I say that feelings represent demands upon the mind to perform work, what I mean is that they represent demands on thinking.
The work of the mind is thinking. In the primary case, in the standard situation, feelings come first. Thoughts are ways of dealing with feelings — ways of, as it were, thinking our way out of feelings — ways of finding solutions that meets the needs that lie behind the feelings.
The feelings come first in both a hierarchical and a chronological sense. A little neonate newborn mammal has no thoughts to speak of, to begin with; it is a little bundle of feelings. Thinking derives from learning, that is, from experience. These solutions are, of course, initially provided by caregivers. That is why parenting is important. On this basis, thinking gradually develops and teaches us how to manage our feelings — how to solve the problems that feelings represent.
Once that has happened, though, thinking can become very elaborate. To mention just the most obvious case, a thought, which has developed in relation to a particular feeling, can be re-thought. That will reactivate the feeling. So, later in development, thinking can make feelings come second.
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