One’s own emotions may influence others’ behavior in a given social interaction. If one believes this, s/he has an incentive to game emotions—to strategically conceal a current emotion or display a non-experienced emotion—in an attempt to influence her/his counterpart. In a series of three experiments, we show that people deliberately conceal (experiment 1) or misrepresent (experiments 2 and 3)...

Academic stress can have a significant impact on students, both their thoughts, behaviour and emotions. Therefore, resilience needs to be increased resolve problems immediately. This phenomenological research aims explore students' experiences in increasing due academic by using spiritual approach. Research informants comprised 10 students who succeeded with coping strategies The data were obta...

The main difficulties that researchers face in understanding emotions are difficulties only because of the narrowmindedness of our views on emotions. We are not able to free ourselves from the notion that emotions are necessarily human emotions. I will argue that if animals have emotions, then so can robots. Studies in neuroscience have shown that animal models, though having limitations, have ...

The aim of this paper is to propose a systematic classification of emotions which can also characterize their nature. The first challenge we address is the submission of clear criteria for a theory of emotions that determinewhichmental phenomena are emotions and which are not. We suggest that emotions as a subclass of mental states are determined by their functional roles. The second and main c...