Creative Challenge 6

Creative Challenge 6

Emotion

June 18, 2012

Assignment:    Create Emotion - evoke emotion in the audience

                        Creations will be shared and discussed at MVCA Meeting on July 23, 2012 at 7 pm.

Discussion:      Define Emotion

1. Emotions are defined as feeling states with physiological, cognitive, and behavioral components

2. Emotions are the various bodily feelings associated with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, and motivation and also with hormones such as dopamine, noradrenaline, and serotonin

 

Here are some thoughts on emotions:

Robert Plutchik's theory

Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions

This says that the basic eight emotions are:

·        Fear → feeling afraid. Other words are terror (strong fear),

shock, phobia

·        Anger → feeling angry. A stronger word is rage.

·        Sadness → feeling sad. Other words are sorrow, grief

(a stronger feeling, for example when someone has died)

or depression (feeling sad for a long time). Some people

 think depression is a different emotion.

·        Joy → feeling happy. Other words are happiness, gladness.

·        Disgust → feeling something is wrong or dirty

·        Trust → a positive emotion; admiration is stronger; acceptance is weaker

·        Anticipation → in the sense of looking forward positively to something which is going to happen. Expectation is more neutral.

·        Surprise → how one feels when something unexpected happens

Book Two of Aristotle's Rhetoric

This theory says that the emotions are:

·        Anger, opposite calmness (not feeling excited)

·        Friendship (Love), opposite enmity (feeling hate)

·        Fear, opposite confidence (having no fear)

·        Shame, opposite shamelessness (shame: how one feels about one's past bad actions or thoughts; shamelessness: one does not feel shame, but others think one should.)

·        Kindness (benevolence), opposite unkindness (kindness: when people are good to other people)

·        Pity (when people feel sorry for other people)

·        Indignation (feeling angry because something is not fair, such as undeserved good fortune)

·        Envy, jealous (pain when people have something that one wishes for oneself)

The Engineered Language Lojban

This "language" has words showing these emotions:

Simple emotions discovery - confusion surprise - no surprise - expectation wonder - surprise - commonplace happiness - unhappiness amusement - weariness courage - timidity - cowardice pity - cruelty

Complex emotions pride - modesty- shame closeness - detachment - distance complaint/pain - doing average - pleasure caution - boldness - rashness patience - mere tolerance - anger relaxation - composure - stress

Pure emotions fear - nervousness - security togetherness - privacy respect - disrespect appreciation - envy love - no love lost - hatred hope - despair