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[edit] Human quality?
Isn't empathy a human quality and not an emotion?? =D, categorizing empathy as an emotion is deceptive as empathy is the interpretation of emotion more than an actual "emotion" Nrlight 13:18, 6 May 2007 (UTC) I second that interpretation (Inherimage 20:45, 18 September 2007 (UTC)inherimage 4:40pm 18 Sep, 2007)
Sarge Baldy, why add jealousy? I don't see it listed among the basic emotions, by any scholar's opinion (not just Plutchik's)... --Shallot 22:00, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Isn't jealousy a combination of anger and fear? Agreed, it is not itself a primary emotion. - (Inherimage 20:45, 18 September 2007 (UTC)inherimage)
Noisy now also added guilt and remorse (also without any mention of it in the log message). Same comment as the above. --Joy [shallot] 13:30, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I was just going by entries in the Category:Emotion. I can't imagine that guilt and remorse shouldn't be considered emotions: if there are a 'classical' set of emotions, then perhaps there should be separate – more exclusive and prescriptively named – category and template? At some time in the future, I may look at this sight it is very informative and will make you laugh! What links here and add any others I find.
- Guilt and Remorse are simply Fear when considered in specific circumstances (Inherimage 20:45, 18 September 2007 (UTC)inherimage)
- It's okay, but the template started with a canonical short list (emotion theory). I agree that its name is too generic. I just want to make sure we have some plan WRT this whole thing, and not just keep expanding it in a random manner. --Joy [shallot] 19:22, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Plan? I leave that to the project manager! :-) Noisy 20:25, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
As to why I forgot to mention their addition when I was rejigging the template, I was just carried away with trying to get it to look pretty, and forgot the original reason for going there. :-)
The entries were all run together to try and eliminate the blank lines at the top and bottom of the list. Noisy 15:53, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I never saw those blank lines...? --Joy [shallot]
- Seems it's browser dependent: the blank lines aren't there under MIE, but they are under Netscape. Noisy 20:25, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
See also: {{Emotion-footer}} for a more extensive list. Rfrisbietalk 17:43, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
The excitement link goes to the excited state of an electron article, not the excitement emotion article
Just as a suggestion: Curiosity is not on the list at all. It is a primary emotion, and the opposite of Fear (Inherimage 20:45, 18 September 2007 (UTC)inherimage)
- No... I don't think that's exactly true. Courage is the opposite of Fear - according to "common sense"... --Keerllston 21:34, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Having read the discussions above, I would like to offer my thoughts on this template. As I understand the situation, having read a substantial amount of psychological literature (and the emotion article, of course), there is no definitive - or even commonly used or agreed - taxonomy of emotion. I'd venture that in the interests of completeness, it is justifiable to include all of the emotions disputed above (empathy, guilt, remorse, jealousy, curiosity etc.), and any future additions, on that grounds that there are strong, often published and peer-reviewed arguments for each of them being identifiable, discrete emotions, and not reducible to compounds or opposites that some would believe.
The 'basic' and 'other' sections, although they bear and show the limits of emotion research, seem a reasonable way of keeping the list both useful to the casual browser, and complete for those seeking a more exhaustive catalogue. The simple, alphabetical format we are using now seems valuable, and certainly acceptable, as a resource. Whitespace (talk) 01:29, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I object to this template
It automatically sticks a whole lot of things into Psychology -- emotion. This articles and words have nothing to do with Psychology. If you do not change the template so that it does not reference Psychology, I will propose that it be deleted. --Mattisse 21:20, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
- The study of the psyche has nothing to do with emotions? What could you mean?--Keerllston 21:35, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Other template
Is it possible to link the list in this template to the footer template? Or do they need to be manually kept in sync? Whitespace (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] about wikipedia
i am really impressed with the wikipedia crew.its a wonderful coordination which contributes to the fully fledged information page.keep on the spirits.you are already being acclaimed for your exceptional work (deepti,mauritius) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.27.88.136 (talk) 12:03, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Lust
What about lust? Does that fit in there? 121.45.183.59 (talk) 14:55, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
My thought exactly. Lust/desire is a distinct emotion, a type of excitement, often with aggressive (or submissive) overtones (undertones). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.38.49.52 (talk) 13:04, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
- Any reference, otherwise this whole template is original research. Arnoutf (talk) 17:16, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] References???
There are no references, not even on this talk page. The classification of psychological states as emotions is far from agreed upon in the literature. This template arrives at a list without any references or argument. These should be provided promptly, otherwise I will propose this template for deletion as original research. Arnoutf (talk) 17:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Template change
This template is to long, it should be moved to the bottom of the articles using a horizontal table instead of a columnar table. Green Squares (talk) 13:21, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
- I cannot agree more. I removed this template in favour of the bottom one in the emotion main article. The discussion which template to use, is one for the articles, not here though. Arnoutf (talk) 16:59, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
- I'm going to merge these two templates, based on this thread and the thread at Template talk:Emotion-footer#Merge from Template:Emotion. Please use that talkpage for any further discussion. Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Empathy
I am having the ambivalent thought about my action of responding to all of the sections you all have added. My section would be about empathy. This is why it is ambivalent.
I want to be able to understand what all of you are seeing and feeling, and I am sure it is retroactive. But to make actions based on irrational thought (i.e. jumping to conclusions because you are unable to empathize) I feel is a complete travesty. I want to illuminate this point to the select group of people who will read this. But I have mixed feelings about it. I have selected all of my typed words, deleted them, and retyped them over and over again due to my insecurity about saying what I am saying.
Everybody has their emotions. And everybody needs to express them. This is something I understand. But when I see these chain reactions, not just on these specific pages but also on facebook, youtube, and whatever else, it just makes me sick. First off, it is not even clear whether or not anybody at all cares remotely about what we have to say. But that is irrelevant because most people are sociopaths when it comes to presumptions. Or most people just do whatever they want.
Granted that people may indeed want to listen to you, there is an almost 0% chance that anybody reading what you have typed actually understands what you have written to the point where they can make an intelligible reaction. I, in this comment, am not even reacting to what you all have written. I did not even read it. I just saw what the template was, and decided to post this for all to read. I think that in the end of it all, everybody says that they do not care what people think of what they may or may not type on this emotion wikipedia page. But I am not saying this for me. I am saying this for all of you. (This is probably not true, I am just trying very hard to illuminate a point, so I may say whatever my subconscious tricks me into saying.)
Everybody does this as well. They say that it is not for them. It is out of their hands. Well I may be saying this for me. But I do not know.
What I do know is that empathy and complete understanding is impossible. The irony of this page makes me very uncomfortable, but I still want to share that with people. So now I have these conflicting thoughts, a sort of constant state of cognitive dissonance.
I love it. I hate it.
Why do we do anything? We are all alone. Black is white to somebody else, but what they see as "white", they call "black". Everything is a series of coincidences, misplacements, and rash decisions without the input of anybody.
I am suffering from a severe case of major depression. So I want more than anybody else to be able to give help and to get help. But as it stands there is no recognition or proof of anything of the sort.
Am I typing in gibberish? An illiterate person might think so. The idea of knowledge is useless. It is used to deceive ourselves into thinking we are making a difference or that there is a connection.
There isn't.
207.172.133.144 (talk) 15:57, 17 May 2008 (UTC) Adam
