What Makes a Feeling an Emotion? 

Bodies in _motion_ remain in motion, bodies in _emotion_ lock themselves in the bathroom and cry.

Each time I watch an episode hosted by Brit I feel positive emotions 🤗

Muscle Hank is canon?

Muscle-Hank-Buff-Green. 3:33

I had to stop the video at 03:33 to look for a certain someone in the comments >_>

Nice subtle plug for your brother's book Hank. ;)

3:33 Muscle Hank is ripped

MUSCLE HANK!

Thumbs up for "I'm not sobbing, you're sobbing"

3:35 I don't know guys weight lifting can be pretty scary

Hey Brit, don't know exactly when you joined the team here but I have to say you've done a great job with each video you are a part of. Glad my favorite channel has great talent keeping each video interesting and understandable

Fun fact, the James Lange theory is named so because psychologists William James and Carl Lange at basically the same time so nobody knew who to name the theory after.

I totally feel ya on this one.

She's rocking that style.....whatever it is........

I see Muscle Hank finally made an official appearance in an episode.

Cannon-Bard is an overpowered class

But how much does a feeling weigh?

That's why the best actors get super into it, it's hard to not feel what your mimicking. I can fake cry, but it really does make me a little sad even though I know I'm not actually sad.

This stuff is some of the reasons that you can prevent panic attacks to some extent by making yourself have physical symptoms of a panic attack. Spinning to get yourself dizzy or jumping to get your heart rate up and out of breath. Your brain will then attribute these symptoms to your activity instead of a potential oncoming panic attack. This actually has some empirical support and many people report it actually helping them. Thanks James and Lange.

She's such a great science communicator! I love SciShow! you are doing such a service to the world!

I was originally favouring the Canon-Bard theory but after hearing the Schachter-Singer theory, I’m starting to open up to the latter. Because of medication (or maybe my health), I sometimes get elevated heart rates and start sweating heavily. My first reaction is usually “what am I worried about?” I then realize that I’m not worried because there is nothing to worry about. Perhaps it is just us labeling physiological responses as such

Hahaha, Fault In Our Stars was really good. You've come a long way as a host Brit, keep up the good work!

Thanks, I'm pleased to see this. I was just thinking about this topic and how some question if other animals can feel emotions. A solid definition of emotions is a pretty important first step in that process.

I agree with Jaak Panksepp's affective neuroscience which proposes that there are primary emotions with a basis in neurological systems which then can be mixed with our thoughts to create more complicate and nuanced emotional experiences. Emotions and cognitions interact but emotions hold more "power" in the relationship being located in lower and older areas of the brain.

I LOVE the gaze of the spider XD

Am I the only one reclicking the video after about an hour to check if user Muscle Hank already commented?

the spider is a cute animal , minding his own business :D after all he has rights you know... LOL

Good start with introducing the main theories of emotions and touching on the difficulty in defining/measuring them. There really should be a part 2 though. The James Lange theory has been modified since its original conception and the modified version is more widely accepted by researchers of emotion. Despite difficulty in defining emotions, there are some generally agreed on requirements for something to be an emotion, such as it must be present across all cultures (although the acceptability of expressing is may vary be cultural norms) and must be innate. It would also be beneficial to talk about the limitations of self reporting because of people's different perceptions of questions and perceptions of the strength of what they are feeling, as well as the importance of self reporting despite limitations. it would be good to talk about some of the main ways researchers measure physiological responses of emotions, and which responses tend to be consistent for certain emotions, even though these measures aren't perfectly reliable. Managing emotions would is also important. Many people don't realize the things they do that actually increase negative emotions and all the ways they can manage negative emotions in a healthy way.

I've asked myself that question on the thumbnail my entire life.

“Looking for Alaska” is the superior John Green Novel

Now where’s muscle hank in the comments?

I think an emotion is a feeling one didn't handle and so comes back.

More than a feeling!

y'all master your audio so much louder than other youtube videos

This video got me feeling some type of way.

I believe this is what happens (normally): We experience something, we have a "thought or belief" about that experience. If the experience is perceived as negative or positive the brain reacts accordingly by producing chemical signals that make us physically feel something, & we label it as an emotion. However there are signals that we consider misfiring because the person isn't feeling how they're thinking, or is feeling a way not related to how the experience is expected to make them feel. This could be a mutation in DNA from birth, based on dietary inputs, sensory inputs, or many different kinds of chemicals in our environment. Knowledge is key!!

Hunk Hank. Oh my heart. Haha! 😂

i feel emotional when i see you, Brit

Emotions Are Dumb and Should Be Hated! (Bender B. Rodriguez)

Feelings are a record of the past period

I was completely emotionally wrecked by two video games I played last week. I cried a lot while playing and when I had finished, my severe depression, although well treated, relapsed heavily.

I'm going to use my personal experience, so this is all anecdotal. Although I think I may be on to something,I believe thoughts and feelings are two components to emotions, that is to say. I believe emotions are the entire response of your brain and body. I think three of these models are true at the same time. I'm going to use abbreviations T=F is thoughts to Feeling, F=T is Feeling to thoughts, and S-E is Spontaneous Emotions. What I've noticed is T=F and F=T occur slower than S-E. I have lackluster coffee tolerance, so if I drink one cup too many I might feel anxious what I realized is that I had no anxious thoughts proceeding the anxiety, and the anxiety would affect my thoughts, I also realized early in my practicing of meditation the thoughts that popped into my head would affect my feelings I found meditate when I had unfocused and/or depressive thoughts. I've always known about S-E, I think the vast majority of people have S-E usually in times of distress, terror, or euphoria, your body would feel and your mind would race at the same time, or very very close to the same time.

Beauty and brains.

I had just finished reading that book

Something weird; whenever I’m drawing a facial expression, my face automatically shifts to that expression. I usually start to notice later, or when I look, but my face automatically mimics the expression I draw!

Nice question

That spider... That damn spider...

Anger serves to motivate behavior that will correct our unfair treatment.

I press like on most of these videos, but the moment i heard that pun at the start, i hit like 🤣🤣🤣

Nice reference to The Fault in Our Stars

Emotions are initiated a very primitive area of the brain. Affective Neuroscience has brought us much closer to understanding them by looking at animal behavior and brain stimulation, even identifying seven core emotions that are shared between all mammals. Emotions are "messy" when we study them in humans because once they originate in the hypothalamus, they can be processed by the neocortex and our language ability, which in turn can create feedback (new stimulus) which kicks off new emotions. Essentially, chasing our mental tails.

*Where does it come from, where does it go? Where does it come from emotional Joe!*

Muscle Hank is back!

I think this is one of those areas where psychologists might benefit from studying those with disorders, specifically alexithymia (and by extension autism, because there's a lot of overlap.) I'm convinced context has something to do with emotion because I spent years suffering from anxiety in school and frustration at home because I interpreted it as "boredom" only... just one example. I'm also sure there's chemical and neurological reasons bc how else would depression be depressing, etc Anyways i suppose the therapist joke with "how does that make you feel?" Is a bit more complex, huh?

Omg muscle hank

Buff hank cracked me up

First, adress this: e-motion. Prefix e meaning outward, and motion, meaning movement (in this case reaction). We can actually change the order in which we percieve these things, sometimes even simultaneously. My point being, that an individual is technically able to experience these 3 in any order, and that order is situational. Given a relaxing moment of silence, you can think about a feeling you've had to evoke an emotional state. Activities in life that require you to be aware right now often go in order from feel external stimuli, think, emote. Of course one may also feel, emote, then think (impulsive behaviors). Last, an individual may experience an emotion that is induced by stimuli that the individual is unaware of (subsonic sound is a prime example of such stimuli). Due to the lack of awareness, that individual may address the cause of the emotion by working through their thoughts; thus bringing awareness to the feeling that is responsible for said emotion. If this does not make sense, please give some feedback. This ability is what makes self efficacy possible, and without it, individuals may often feel helpless, or as though their life is not in their control.

When I'm hungry, I also feel lonely for some reason.

I have alexithymia and have had to go through this process myself way too much. But sad does feel pretty identical to cold. But negative thoughts and an urge to cry help clue me in that it is sad nut just cold. That or when I objectively know it's actually really hot. It's honestly ridiculous how important bring able to quickly identify your emotions correctly can be

I have feelings every time i see you

I love the inclusion of Muscle Hank in this one rofl

Don't keep your captives in the basement if a spider makes you feel unease

I've cried in the Xenoblade 2 ending all four times I've seen it

off-topic but Brit’s hair and outfit are really cool in this video

I find that it is thought that precedes reaction. For reactions such as a black widow landing on your shoe, the thought process is pretty quick. 1. Stimuli: See black widow 2. Thought: Bad thing! 3. Reaction: Kick it off!!! I became fully cognizant of my response after the fact, when I had time to think about it. I guess it depends on the situation. Bodily reactions can influence thought process, and thought process can influence bodily reactions. Ultimately, I think that feelings and emotions are not dissimilar. When I feel angry, it is because I have had time to process what was said or done. 1. Stimuli: Someone said something unkind. 2. Thought: That wasn't nice! 3. Reaction: Become angry! I think that for most people, these things all happen without them really being aware of the thought process. So, it can feel like the emotion came after the feeling. Are there things that can cause a primal response, possibly. Though, I think out brains have to process the stimuli through our thoughts and knowledge. Though, the transition between the less cognizant feeling, and the fully aware emotion are somewhat distinct. It is mostly about being fully cognizant of a reaction that your brain has already come to.

I think of emotions kinda like a sort of instinct - it's a preprogrammed response with a trigger you can usually rationalize, but in the end it's just hormones and electrochemical firing doing their thing

MuscleHank is in the video!

*DAMN YOU SPIDER*

Would be cool if SciShow Psych did some videos on some less mainstream theories of psychology. like Complex Dynamical Systems theory or Gibsonian Ecological Psychology. Basically there is a whole world that oppose a lot of these cognitivist views that became popular and have dominated psychological theory for decades. But how can we explain the Homunculus problem?...or the degrees of freedom problem? I had a course on this and loved it. SciShow should give their 2 cents!

Brit Garner is a dime 👌

Muscle hank sighting at 3:35

There are two emotions: fear and anger. I don’t know where all this “sadness” stuff comes from - that’s a feeling.

The last one seems to make sense

You should check out Lisa Feldman-Barretts view of the construction of emotions! The paper is freely available online or you can check out her book "how emotions are made"! It's in my view the most parsimonous and scientifically based view so far, but it takes some explaining, so i won't try to get in an tl;dr explanation here! But seriously, this "theory" will be nothing short of a game changer! ;)

So, basically inducing a panic attack

I've mistaken fear for a large wasp and spider for love before

That intro! TFIOS :D John, how much have you payed her??!!! ;-)

Feels moment: when your favorite character dies 😥

“Emotions are messy” Couldn’t have said it (typed it?) better myself.

Our emotions are based on what we believe through what we have been taught or exposed to. We are scared of rats because we subconsciously see that other people are afraid of rats without even knowing everything or maybe even anything about rats. We subconsciously match the emotions of our peers to stay alive.

That fluffy kitten reference in the beggining of the video got me wondering... how can we feel things are fluffy? Do we have some fluff receptor neurons or is it just the general sense of pressure that builds the fluffy feeling?

Can you explain the interoceptive inference idea

I think our unconscious controls our emotions and we recognize them at the same time as the physical response the cause

You should do a video on the effects of broken heart syndrome

RIP August Ames... you’ll surely be remembered 😰

help, when i see a spider i just dont care

Had to laugh at Hank-as-bodybuilder.

I get the feeling that SciShow Psych is carrying out an experiment on us viewers. I'm not exactly sure what they're trying to figure out but in many videos there's a spider. They mention a spider in a specific way as well as using different animations in each different video. I've more so noticed a negative view on spiders but I'm sure i've just missed some videos. What are you people up to? I am very interested.

3:23 I'm not sure a label for a physical response is necessary for emotion. People with low emotional intelligence, for example, are probably terrible at accurately labelling their emotions. They get physical responses, but aren't aware of it, or attribute it to the wrong reason, rather than their own emotions. I think stress is a good example, since a lot of people are so used to being stressed out, they just think their painful physiological responses (weakened immune system, fatigue, muscle aches, etc) are normal and don't even realize their own emotions are hurting them. This stress likely manifests in their mood too, making them irritable. Also teenagers especially tend to be awful at labelling or even identifying their emotions. They don't know what they feel or why half the time, hence why it's such a confusing life stage. I don't think a lack of awareness or proper labelling makes a feeling just... disappear and stop being an emotion that's felt. It's very much there and making you emotional either way

RU-vid notification isn't felling r8 ???

That spider has six too few eyes and one too many body sections.

I'd like to be tested. Years of manipulating my central nervous system might make it interesting.

What is the difference between emotions and thoughts??

But what if I'm in love with the spider?

Poker players call these TELLS

After clearing out the garage yesterday there is way too much spider talk going on for me 😧

i like kakuro

Does Muscle Hank watch SciShow Psych tho...?

GOD DAMN IT, STOP IT WITH THE SPIDER :(

Now you gotta tell us why being anxious makes us bight our nails