Seymour Epstein
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199927555
- eISBN:
- 9780190256227
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199927555.003.0004
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter explores mid-level implicit needs and beliefs, lower-level implicit needs and beliefs, emotions, and other feeling states in relation to the cognitive-experiential theory (CET) of ...
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This chapter explores mid-level implicit needs and beliefs, lower-level implicit needs and beliefs, emotions, and other feeling states in relation to the cognitive-experiential theory (CET) of personality. It considers the action tendencies of primary emotions such as fear, anger, sadness, happiness and joy, love and affection, as well as the ancillary components of such emotions; primary emotions as nature's compromise between instinctive and learned behavior; secondary emotions; unresolved feeling states; and vibes. The chapter concludes by discussing the importance of feelings in CET.Less
This chapter explores mid-level implicit needs and beliefs, lower-level implicit needs and beliefs, emotions, and other feeling states in relation to the cognitive-experiential theory (CET) of personality. It considers the action tendencies of primary emotions such as fear, anger, sadness, happiness and joy, love and affection, as well as the ancillary components of such emotions; primary emotions as nature's compromise between instinctive and learned behavior; secondary emotions; unresolved feeling states; and vibes. The chapter concludes by discussing the importance of feelings in CET.
