unpleasant emotions

collocation in English

meaningsofunpleasantandemotion

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unpleasant
adjective
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/ʌnˈplez.ənt/us
/ʌnˈplez.ənt/
not enjoyable ...
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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 ofunpleasantandemotionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Hatred is a high threshold and it is a veryunpleasantemotion, whether on racial or religious matters.
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In battle fear, a mostunpleasantemotion, is so strong, so human, so natural, that every possible adventitious aid ought to be employed to resist it.
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All emotional conditioning whether of pleasant or unpleasant emotions seems to work in the same way.
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For instance while both anger and rage are unpleasant emotions, rage has a higher intensity or a higher arousal state.
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Psychological flexibility allowed participants to have a better understanding of the subtleties of pleasant and unpleasant emotions.
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States of deprivation (e.g. hunger) induce unpleasant emotions, (i.e. pain), thus motivating individual action.
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Feelings of empathic concern are contrasted with feelings of personal distress, which compel people to reduce their own unpleasant emotions.
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For instance both anger and fear are unpleasant emotions, and score high on the displeasure scale.
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The tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression, and vulnerability.
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Thus, unpleasant emotions are more likely to lead to mood contagion than are pleasant emotions.
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For instance while both fear and anger are unpleasant emotions, anger is a dominant emotion, while fear is a submissive emotion.
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Additionally, older adults are more readily able to increase the unpleasant emotions evoked from a negative stimulus.
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In general, the phrase bad trip is used to describe a reaction that is characterized primarily by fear or other unpleasant emotions, not just transitory experience of such feelings.
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