Quotes About Emotion

Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.

I'm cold, Religiously cold.

Charge the loss to your mental account of 'general revenue'—you will feel better!

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog.

The remembering self's neglect of duration, its exaggerated emphasis on peaks and ends, and its susceptibility to hindsight combine to yield distorted reflections of our actual experience.

Their recommendation is that you should not put too much weight on regret; even if you have some, it will hurt less than you now think.

cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.

It appears to be a feature of System 1 that cognitive ease is associated with good feelings.

These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster.

Cognitive ease is both a cause and a consequence of a pleasant feeling.

El mundo que imaginamos no es una réplica precisa de la realidad; nuestras expectativas sobre la frecuencia de los acontecimientos están distorsionadas por la prevalencia y la intensidad emocional de los mensajes que nos llegan.

people tend to be risk averse in the domain of gains and risk seeking in the domain of losses.

Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living, and the only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.

The emotional tail wags the rational dog." The affect heuristic simplifies our lives by creating a world that is much tidier than reality.

The photographer does not view the scene as a moment to be savored but as a future memory to be designed. Pictures

The affect heuristic is an instance of substitution, in which the answer to an easy question (How do I feel about it?) serves as an answer to a much harder question (What do I think about it?).

An important advance is that emotion now looms much larger in our understanding of intuitive judgments and choices than it did in the past. The executive's decision would today be described as an example of the affect heuristic, where judgments and decisions are guided directly by feelings of liking and disliking, with little deliberation or reasoning.

The implication is clear: as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog

The remembering self is the one that answers the question: "How was it, on the whole?" Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living, and the only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.

However, we are not all rational, and some of us may need the security of distorted estimates to avoid paralysis.

I made myself smile and I'm actually feeling better!

Gruesome images, endlessly repeated in the media, cause everyone to be on edge. As I know from experience, it is difficult to reason oneself into a state of complete calm.

In simple words, prospect theory cannot deal with disappointment.