EMOTIONS

&
ITS TYPES

PRESENTED BY:
NIKITA SAINI
MBA 4TH SEM
1803104025
EMOTIONS

 Emotions seem to rule our daily lives. We make decisions based on whether we are happy, angry, sad, bored,
or frustrated. We choose activities and hobbies based on the emotions they incite. Emotions exert an
incredibly powerful force on human behaviour. Strong emotions can cause you to take actions you might not
normally perform or to avoid situations you enjoy. Why exactly do we have emotions? What causes us to
have these feelings? Researchers, philosophers, and psychologists have proposed different theories to explain
the how and why behind human emotions.
 In psychology, emotion is often defined as a complex state of feeling that results in physical and
psychological changes that influence thought and behaviour.
TYPES OF EMOTIONS

 As we have already seen in our previous articles, human behaviour affects organizational growth. In this
article, we are going to talk about what I’ve learned about how emotions affect human behaviour. There are
different types of emotions that can influence the way we live and talk to others. Sometimes, it may seem
like these emotions rule us. The actions we take, the choices we make and the perceptions we have been
influenced by greatly impact our emotions at any given moment.
 There are six basic emotions that are universally experienced in all people irrespective of their cultures.
These emotions are sadness, happiness, disgust, surprise, fear and anger. If we try to go further and expand
these emotions, we will come up with other emotions such as shame, pride, excitement and embarrassment.
HAPPINESS

 Most people strive to have the happiness of all the types of emotions discussed above. Happiness is a
pleasant emotional state, and it is characterized by the feeling of joy, contentment, satisfaction, gratification,
and well-being. Scholars have done numerous researches on happiness since the 1960s within different
disciplines such as positive psychology. Happiness is sometimes expressed through body language, facial
expressions such as smiling, and a pleasant tone. Happiness is one of the basic emotions, but things that
create happiness are majorly influenced by culture.
SADNESS

 Sadness is a transient emotional state. It is typically characterized by feelings of grief, disappointment,

disinterest, hopelessness, and a dampened mood. Sadness is an emotion that all people experience. In some
cases, people experience severe and prolonged periods of sadness that can become depression.
 There are several ways we can express sadness such as quietness, dampened mood, withdrawal from others,
lethargy and crying. The severity and type of sadness can vary depending on the cause and people cope with
sadness in different ways. Sadness can make people avoid other people or even have negative thoughts about
life.
FEAR

 This is a very powerful emotion, and it can play an important role in survival. People go through flight or
fight response when they face some sort of fear. Your heart rate increases, your muscles become tense, and
your mind becomes more alert. This primes your body either to stand and fight or to run from danger.
 People experience fear in different ways. Some people may be more sensitive to certain objects that may
trigger fear. Fear can be defined as an emotional response to a sudden threat.
DISGUST

 This is a basic emotion that can be displayed in numerous ways such as turning away from things of disgust,
facial expressions such as curling the upper lip and wrinkling the nose and physical reactions such as
retching or vomiting.
 Different things can cause disgust such as unpleasant smell, sight or taste. Experts believe that disgust
evolved as a reaction to harmful foods. When people taste or smell foods that have been contaminated, they
experience disgust. Infection, poor hygiene, rot, blood, and death can cause disgust. There is also moral
disgust when people observe other people engaging in behaviours that they find immoral, distasteful or
evil. Relationships between bosses and employees in organizations can be disgusting to other employees.
ANGER

 This is a very powerful emotion, and it is characterized by feelings of agitation, hostility, antagonism, and
frustration towards others. Anger is similar to fear in that it can trigger a flight or fight response in the body.
A threat can generate a feeling of anger and make you fend off the danger or fight to protect yourself.
 Anger can be displayed through body language such as turning away from someone, facial expressions such
as glaring or frowning, tone of voice such as yelling or speaking gruffly, a physiological response such as
turning red or sweating, and aggression such as kicking, hitting or throwing objects. Anger can negatively
affect the productivity of employees in an organization.
SURPRISE

 This is another one of the basic types of human emotions. It is typically brief, and we can characterize
surprise by a physiological startle response due to unexpected things. Surprise can be negative, positive or
neutral. The unpleasant surprise might involve someone scaring you as you walk. An example of a pleasant
surprise is when you arrive home and find your friends gathered to celebrate your birthday. We can
characterize surprise by facial expressions such as widening the eyes raising the brows and opening the
mouth. We can also characterize surprise through physical responses such as jumping up or back and verbal
reactions such as gasping, screaming and yelling. Positive surprises to employees in an organization can
increase their productivity.
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