Quotes About Emotion

Poignancy (a close cousin of regret) is a counterfactual feeling, which

you think with your body, not only with your brain.

costs are not losses.

Losses are weighted about twice as much as gains in several contexts:

She has a coherent story that explains all she knows, and the coherence makes her feel good.

Confusing experience with the memory of it is a compelling cognitive illusion—and it is the substitution that makes us believe a past experience can be ruined.

Peak-end rule: The global retrospective rating was well predicted by the average of the level of pain reported at the worst moment of the experience and at its end. Duration neglect: The duration of the procedure had no effect whatsoever on the ratings of total pain.

The emotional tail wags the rational dog

perception of intention and emotion is irresistible; only people afflicted by autism do not experience it.

the word happiness does not have a simple meaning and should not be used as if it does. Sometimes scientific progress leaves us more puzzled than we were before.

the response to losses is stronger than the response to corresponding gains. This is loss aversion.

The perception of intention and emotion is irresistible; only people afflicted by autism do not experience it.

They found that putting the participants in a good mood before the test by having them think happy thoughts more than doubled accuracy. An even more striking result is that unhappy subjects were completely incapable of performing the intuitive task accurately; their guesses were no better than random. Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.

You think with your body, not with your brain.

The implication is clear: as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog." The affect heuristic simplifies our lives by creating a world that is much tidier than reality.

It is tempting to explain entrepreneurial optimism by wishful thinking, but emotion is only part of the story. Cognitive biases play an important role, notably the System 1 feature WYSIATI.

the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog." The affect heuristic simplifies our lives by creating a world that is much tidier than reality.

An odd feature of what happened is that your System 1 treated the mere conjunction of two words as representations of reality. Your body acted in an attenuated replica of reaction to the real thing, and the emotional response and physical recoil were part of the interpretation of the event. As cognitive scientists have emphasised in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.

Some experimenters have reported that an angry face "pops out" of a crowd of happy faces, but a single happy face does not stand out in an angry crowd. The brains of humans and other animals contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

THE VALUES ARE UNEQUAL BECAUSE OF LOSS AVERSION

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "La alegría, la emoción o la satisfacción son más importantes en Occidente que en Oriente, donde se aprecia más la calma" (Daniel Kahneman)

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be.

emotional information attracts attention quickly and automatically