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Human Affects/Emotions


By Robert Thomas Drury

5/3/2022

By personal observation, we each find that humanity experiences two affects and four emotions. The two affects are pleasure and pain, and are elevated by indulgence and suffering, respectively. The four emotions are joy, grief, fear and anger. Joy is the pleasure affect that sometimes triggers the physiological responses of smiling and laughing. Grief is the pain affect that sometimes triggers the physiological responses of sadness and crying. Fear is the pain affect that sometimes triggers the physiological responses of startling and flight. Anger is the pain affect that sometimes triggers the physiological responses of snarling and fight. Typically, obervations are evaluated, which trigger affects, which in turn trigger emotions. Feelings are affects/emotions triggered by subconscious thoughts/ideas. Subsequently, there exists a wide variety of such thoughts/ideas and feelings. Their triggers are typically conditioned, by classical or operant conditionings of the subconscious, which require careful management by each of us to maintain maximum positivity and minimum negativity.