complex emotion

collocation in English

meaningsofcomplexandemotion

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complex
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒm.pleks/us
/kɑːmˈpleks/
involving a lot of different but ...
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emotion
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/us
/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən/
a strong feeling such as love or anger, or strong feelings ...
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(Definition ofcomplexandemotionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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No reported program to date has systematically trainedcomplexemotionrecognition in both visual and auditory channels, with lifelike faces and voices.
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Like pride, jealousy comprises a selfreflective, socially mediated,complexemotionthat is highly dependent on the individual interpretation of social reactions.
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Love - what we call love - is a verycomplexemotiondescribed by as a feeling of empathy or compassion.
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For complex emotions, no significant group differences were detected largely due to task difficulty.
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The most difficult subtask appeared to be the contextual recognition of complex emotions, like surprise and shame.
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Complex emotions involve projection of one's own mental state vis-à-vis others.
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Further, the recognition of complex emotions presupposes the ability to take the emotional perspective of the other.
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Sixteen items denoted simple emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear), whereas 16 other items denoted complex emotions (surprise, shame, disgust, contempt).
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This suggests a task difficulty effect and indicates some complex emotions require more information for accurate identification.
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As the eye task is more difficult than the face task, it is possible that task difficulty is an important confound for complex emotions such as guilt.
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That adds to the stress and complex emotions experienced by a child victim.
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The child may even love the accused, or be bound up in all those complex emotions and feel intense guilt.
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These are much more complex emotions, and involve assessing events as agreeing with one's self-perception or not, and adjusting one's behavior accordingly.
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The novel animates mountains, lakes, wind and fire and other elements of nature that echo the complex emotions of her characters.
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Some basic emotions can be modified to form complex emotions.
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The complex emotions could arise from cultural conditioning or association combined with the basic emotions.
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Eyles also noted the fragile beauty, which ideally conveys the longing and yearning contained within the complex emotions of the songs.
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Not only does this pictorial and theatrical language allow us to communicate complex emotions, its also far more compact.
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Thus, a social life-style may play a role in basic emotions developing into complex emotions.
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Complex emotions would include contempt, jealousy and sympathy.
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