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Feeling is the nominalization of the verb to feel.[1] 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"[2] 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.[3] 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. Some theories of interpersonal relationships also have a role for shared feelings or understanding of another person's feelings.[citation needed]
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.
Many people if not all buy products in hoping that this certain product will make them feel a certain way either happy, excited, beautiful or etc...For example, Some women buy beauty products in hopes of achieving a state of happiness or a sense of self beauty. We use past events in past events 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.
Let's say you purchase a product and the following day you receive several comments based on your use of that product. Those compliments made you feel elated or beautiful, the chances are in the future that you are going to purchase that product again because using it in the past made you feel extremely happy.[4]
Many of us have heard the quote "How do you feel about it" or "How does that make you feel" and many of us ask ourselves this question on the daily basis. We predict that a certain something will give us our desired outcome or feeling of expectation; however, in reality sometimes when we do indulge in what we thought would make us happy or excited sometimes it only causes a temporary fill or it might actually gives us the complete opposite results than we had expected. We do things in life in hopes to satisfy our feelings.
Incorporating or thinking about our past feelings, helps us make decisions. A study was done to show how pleased a person would feel if they purchased flowers for themselves for no specific reason (birthday, anniversary, promotion or etc...) just because and how long they thought that feeling would last. People who had no experience of purchasing flowers for themselves and those who had experienced buying flowers for themselves were tested. Results showed that those who had purchased flowers in the past for themselves felt happier and that feeling lasted longer versus a person who had never experienced purchasing flowers for themselves. This was a prime example of how past experiences of feelings influence our current decision making. We use past feelings to dictate how we will feel in the future and if we in turn want to feel that way again.[5]
What do you feel when you feel? We are all familiar with feelings of anger, happiness, joy, stress, and excitement. When we are feeling these emotions our bodies are reacting as well. When we are nervous we feel knots in our stomach or when we are angry the very hairs on our bodies tend to rise.[6]
Feelings can lead to harm and also blissful things. When an individual is dealing with an overwhelming amount of stress and problems in their lives, it can lead them to cause self harm. When one is in a good state of feeling they never want it to end; however, when someone is in a bad place in their life they just want that feeling to go away or stop completely. Inflicting harm or pain to oneself is sometimes the answer for many individuals because they just want something to keep their mind off the real problem or issue that is going on in their lives. The individual figures that the pain they are causing to themselves is not as bad as what their actual problem is. These individuals cut, stab, and starve themselves in efforts to feel something other than their current feeling. Distraction is not the only reason why many individuals choose to inflict self harm. Some people inflict self harm not to numb or distract themselves from that feeling they were feeling earlier, but they inflict self pain as a way to punish themselves for feeling a certain way.[7]
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A gut feeling, or gut reaction, is a visceral emotional reaction to something. It may be negative, such as a feeling of uneasiness, or positive, such as a feeling of trust. Gut feelings are generally regarded as not modulated by conscious thought, and as a reflection of intuition rather than rationality. The phrase "gut feeling" may also be used as a shorthand term for an individual's "common sense" perception of what is considered "the right thing to do"; such as: helping an injured passerby, avoiding dark alleys and generally acting in accordance with instinctive feelings about a given situation. It can also refer to simple common knowledge phrases which are true no matter when said, such as "Water is wet", "Fire is hot", or to ideas that an individual intuitively regards as true, without proof (see "Truthiness" for examples).
If we encountered an angry individual, how would that make us feel? We could either respond back to the anger individual in the same demeanor that he or she did, or we could maintain our calm. When we see angry people walking about in society we do not know what made that individual angry or how long they have been angry. When we see someone who is cursing or angry we automatically assume the worst of that person. What we fail to realize is that maybe that individual probably lost a loved one or is really going through a tough time. If someone was yelling at you and you had no clue why they were behaving in such manner you would probably yell back at the individual and feel as if the person was just arrogant or purely rude. However, if that same scenario occurred and you did know the person was going through a hard time you would adhere to the feeling rules and sympathize with the individual and you might even try to help that person.[6]
Timothy D. Wilson, a psychology professor tested this theory of the feeling of uncertainty along with his colleague Yoav Bar-Anan, a social psychologist. Wilson and Bar-Ann found that the more uncertain or unclear an individual is about a situation, the more invested they are. Which basically means since an individual does not know the background or the ending of a story they are constantly replaying an event in their mind which is causing them to have mixed feelings of happiness, sadness, excitement, and et cetera.
It is in our human nature to want to know every detail about something in hopes to maximize our feeling for that moment, but Wilson found that feeling uncertain can lead to something being more enjoyable because it has a sense of mystery. In fact the feeling of not knowing can leave our minds to wonder off and to constantly think and feel about what could've been.[8]
Wikisource has the text of the 1921 Collier's Encyclopedia article Feeling. |
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リンク元 | 「affect」「regret」「感情」 |
拡張検索 | 「feeling of worthlessness」 |
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