Cognitive behavioral therapy is an umbrella term that encompasses many therapeutical approaches, techniques and systems.
The following table based on a wide review of current theories, identifies and contrasts the fundamental emotions according to a set of definite criteria. The three key criteria used include mental experiences that:
1. have a strongly motivating subjective quality like pleasure or pain;
2. are in response to some event or object that is either real or imagined;
3. motivate particular kinds of behavior.
The combination of these attributes distinguish the emotions from sensations, feelings and moods.
Kind of emotion |
Positive emotions |
Negative emotions |
---|---|---|
Related to object properties |
Interest, curiosity, enthusiasm |
Indifference, habituation, boredom |
Attraction, desire, admiration |
Aversion, disgust, revulsion |
|
Surprise, amusement |
Alarm, panic |
|
Future appraisal |
Hope, excitement |
Fear, anxiety, dread |
Event-related |
Gratitude, thankfulness |
Anger, rage |
Joy, elation, triumph, jubilation |
Sorrow, grief |
|
Patience |
Frustration, disappointment |
|
Contentment |
Discontentment, restlessness |
|
Self-appraisal |
Humility, modesty |
Pride, thinking or acting in a way above others |
Social |
Charity |
Avarice, greed, miserliness, envy, jealousy |
Sympathy |
Cruelty |
|
Cathected |
Love |
Hate |