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 +[[Image:The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton frontispiece 1638 edition.jpg|thumb|left|200px| Frontispiece for the 1638 edition of ''[[The Anatomy of Melancholy]]'' by [[Robert Burton]] ]]
 +[[Image:The Souvenir (fidelity) Jean-Baptiste Greuze.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Fidelity (Greuze)|Fidelity]]'' (c. 1787-89) by [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]]]]
 +[[Image:Wanderer.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Wanderer above the Sea of Fog]]'' ([[1818]]) by [[Caspar David Friedrich]]]]
 +[[Image:Nest.jpg|thumb|right|200px|'''''Bird's [[Nest]] and Ferns''''' ([[1863]]) by [[Fidelia Bridges]]]]
 +[[Image:The Remorse of Nero by Waterhouse.jpg|thumb|200px|''The [[Remorse]] of [[Nero]]'' ([[1878]]) by [[John William Waterhouse]]]]
 +[[Image:L'Absinthe (1876) - Edgar Degas.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[L'Absinthe]]'' ([[1876]]) - [[Edgar Degas]]]]
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-'''Feelings''' convey information about situations, on both [[conscious]] and [[subconscious]] levels, via at least 30 [[neurochemical]]s acting alone or in concert in complex ways. Examples of feeling include [[anger]], [[boredom]], [[ecstasy]], [[disgust]], [[fear]], [[happiness]], [[hate]], [[love]], [[lust]], [[pain]], [[pride]] and [[shame]]. 
-The feeling of [[fear]], for example, is an anticipation of [[injury]], broadly defined. It raises the levels of [[brain]] chemicals such as [[adrenalin]] and [[cortisol]]. In healthy subjects, fear is triggered by [[stimuli]] that indicate the presence of [[risk]] or direct [[danger]]. However, even in the absence of a direct threat, [[thought]]s (the active comparing and contrasting of data), unconscious brain patterns, and imaginings can also promote fearful responses. Fear can therefore be deliberately induced, as occurs regularly in both the political and [[Horror movie|entertainment realms]]. +'''Feeling''' is the [[nominalization]] of the verb ''to feel''. The word was first used in the [[English language]] to describe the physical [[sensation]] of [[touch]] through either [[experience]] or [[perception]]. The word is also used to describe experiences other than the physical sensation of touch, such as "[[Emotion|a feeling of warmth]]" and of [[sentience]] in general. In [[Latin]], ''sentire'' meant to feel, hear or smell.
 +In psychology, the word is usually reserved for the [[conscious]] [[Subjectivity|subjective]] [[experience]] of [[emotion]]. [[Phenomenology (psychology)|Phenomenology]] and [[heterophenomenology]] are philosophical approaches that provide some basis for knowledge of feelings. Many schools of [[psychotherapy]] depend on the therapist achieving some kind of understanding of the client's feelings, for which methodologies exist.
-[[Thought]]s and feelings often coexist. A thought can be viewed as a comparing or contrasting of data items while a feeling is a [[visceral]] perception of the difference between the items. When a belief is attached to the cause of, or reason for the difference, the perception takes on a specifically labelled quality assigned by experience and called an [[emotion]]. +[[Perception]] of the physical world does not necessarily result in a universal reaction among receivers (see [[emotion]]s), but varies depending on one's tendency to handle the situation, how the situation relates to the receiver's past experiences, and any number of other factors. Feelings are also known as a state of consciousness, such as that resulting from emotions, sentiments or desires.
-Harvard professor [[Abraham Maslow]] suggested that human beings are all born with an innate sense of positive and negative being-values. We are attracted to positive being-values such as [[justice]],[[honesty]], [[truth]],[[beauty]], humour, liveliness, power (but not abusive power), order (but not nit-picking), intelligence. Likewise, we are repulsed by injustice, [[death]], ugliness, weakness, falseness, deceit, [[chaos]], etc.+People buy products in hopes that this certain product will make them feel a certain way either happy, excited or beautiful. Some women buy beauty products in hopes of achieving a state of happiness or a sense of self beauty. Past events are used in our lives to form schemas in our minds and based on those past experiences we expect our lives to follow a certain script just because of a past event.
-Maslow asserted that positive [[being-values]] are only definable in terms of all other positive being-values—in other words, we cannot maximize any virtue and let it contain some negative being-values without repulsion. For example, beauty that is associated with deceit becomes repulsive. Justice associated with cruelty is repulsive.+A social psychologist, Daniel Gilbert alongside other researchers conducted a study on the influence of feelings on events. The results showed that when the participants predicted a positive feeling for an event, the higher the chances that they wanted to relive the event. Predicted feelings were either short lived or did not correlate to what the participant expected.
-This innate capacity to feel attraction or repulsion forms part of the foundation for moral conscience—that is, feelings, perceived, help shape the individual's moral judgements. +== See also ==
-==Gut feeling==+
-A gut feeling or gut reaction is a visceral emotional reaction to something, often one of disgust. Gut feelings are generally regarded as unmodulated by conscious thought.+
-"Gut feeling" may also be used as a short-hand term for an individual's "common sense" perception of what is morally right.+* [[Affect (psychology)|Affect]] or [[Affective]]
- +* [[Consciousness]]
-Gut feelings, like all reflexive unconscious comparisons can be re-programmed by practice or experiences.+* [[Cognitive neuroscience]]
- +* [[Emotion]]
-==See also==+* [[Feeling rules]]
-*[[Affect]]+* [[Hard problem of consciousness]]
-*[[Emotion]] +* [[Intuition (knowledge)|Intuition]]
-*[[Intuition]]+* [[Myers-Briggs Type Indicator]]
-*[[Touch]]+* [[Perceive]]
- +* [[Perception]]
-'''Basic feelings'''+* ''[[Psychological Types]]''
- +* [[Qualia]]
-[[Anger]]<br/>+* [[Sensation (psychology)]]
-[[Fear]]<br/>+* [[Sentience]]
-[[Depression (mood)|Sadness]]<br/>+* [[Touch]]
-[[Happiness]]<br/>+* [[Vedanā]], the Buddhist concept of feeling
-[[Disgust]]<br/>+
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-'''Others'''+
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-[[Acceptance]]<br/>+
-[[Affection]]<br/>+
-[[Aggression]]<br/>+
-[[Ambivalence]]<br/>+
-[[Apathy]]<br/>+
-[[Sexual arousal|Arousal]]<br/>+
-[[Anxiety]]<br/>+
-[[Compassion]]<br/>+
-[[Confusion]]<br/>+
-[[Contempt]]<br/>+
-[[Depression (mood)|Depression]]<br/>+
-[[Doubt]]<br/>+
-[[Ecstasy (emotion)|Ecstasy]]<br/>+
-[[Empathy]]<br/>+
-[[Envy]]<br/>+
-[[Embarrassment]]<br/>+
-[[Euphoria (emotion)|Euphoria]]<br/>+
-[[Forgiveness]]<br/>+
-[[Frustration]]<br/>+
-[[Guilt]]<br/>+
-[[Gratitude]]<br/>+
-[[Grief]]<br/>+
-[[Hatred]]<br/>+
-[[Hope]]<br/>+
-[[Horror (emotion)|Horror]]<br/>+
-[[Hostility]]<br/>+
-[[Homesickness]]<br/>+
-[[Hysteria]]<br/>+
-[[Loneliness]]<br/>+
-[[Love]]<br/>+
-[[Paranoia]]<br/>+
-[[Pity]]<br/>+
-[[Pleasure]]<br/>+
-[[Pride]]<br/>+
-[[Rage (emotion)|Rage]]<br/>+
-[[Regret (emotion)|Regret]]<br/>+
-[[Remorse]]<br/>+
-[[Shame]]<br/>+
-[[Suffering]]<br/>+
-[[Surprise (emotion)| Surprise]]<br/>+
-[[Sympathy]]<br/>+
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Feeling is the nominalization of the verb to feel. The word was first used in the English language to describe the physical sensation of touch through either experience or perception. The word is also used to describe experiences other than the physical sensation of touch, such as "a feeling of warmth" and of sentience in general. In Latin, sentire meant to feel, hear or smell. In psychology, the word is usually reserved for the conscious subjective experience of emotion. Phenomenology and heterophenomenology are philosophical approaches that provide some basis for knowledge of feelings. Many schools of psychotherapy depend on the therapist achieving some kind of understanding of the client's feelings, for which methodologies exist.

Perception of the physical world does not necessarily result in a universal reaction among receivers (see emotions), but varies depending on one's tendency to handle the situation, how the situation relates to the receiver's past experiences, and any number of other factors. Feelings are also known as a state of consciousness, such as that resulting from emotions, sentiments or desires.

People buy products in hopes that this certain product will make them feel a certain way either happy, excited or beautiful. Some women buy beauty products in hopes of achieving a state of happiness or a sense of self beauty. Past events are used in our lives to form schemas in our minds and based on those past experiences we expect our lives to follow a certain script just because of a past event.

A social psychologist, Daniel Gilbert alongside other researchers conducted a study on the influence of feelings on events. The results showed that when the participants predicted a positive feeling for an event, the higher the chances that they wanted to relive the event. Predicted feelings were either short lived or did not correlate to what the participant expected.

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