{"id":"mymindmine-knowledge-emotion-v1","slug":"emotion","domain":"mind","title":"Emotion","deck":"Coordinated changes in feeling, appraisal, physiology, attention, and action tendency.","directAnswer":"Emotion refers to organized responses that can include subjective feeling, physiological change, appraisal, expression, and tendencies toward action. Different theories disagree about which components are primary.","mechanism":["Events are appraised relative to goals, needs, expectations, and context.","Emotional states can alter attention, memory accessibility, risk perception, and action readiness.","Regulation can change the intensity, duration, expression, or interpretation of an emotional response."],"whyItMatters":["Emotion is not simply noise added to reasoning; it changes the state from which reasoning occurs.","State-aware decision systems should therefore model emotion as part of present conditions rather than pretend it is absent."],"questions":["How do emotions influence decisions?","What is emotion regulation?","Are emotions universal?"],"related":["motivation","self-regulation","decision-making","attention"],"sources":[{"label":"APA Dictionary: primary emotion","url":"https://dictionary.apa.org/primary-emotion","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}],"updated":"2026-09-20","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/mind/emotion","author":{"name":"John Brajer","url":"https://www.mymindmine.com/people/john-brajer"},"publisher":"MyMindMine","knowledgeSystem":"MyMindMine Knowledge System v1","epistemicBoundary":{"externalSources":"Sources support the external factual orientation.","originalLayer":"Brajology and MyMindMine interpretations are original framework material and are not attributed to external sources."}}