Mood Diary

Emotions or ment`l states encomp`ss a number of basic feelings like joy, anger, fear, surprise and a variety of others. My compilation and computation of my emotions over a three-day period illustrated a number of physiological and cognitive components of emotions.

I noticed that many of my emotions seemed to be triggered by both physiological and cognitive components. My computation of my emotions illustrated that a number of times in a three-day span my emotion of "joy" stemmed from my anticipation of eating something I enjoy. This demonstrated to me that emotions are often linked to the physical senses and associated neurological processes similar to the concept embodied by differential emotions theory. As Losonczy (2004, p. 124) explains, "Differential emotions theory posits that basic emotions stem from specific neural circuits that are act

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