Module 4 (Emotions & Moods)

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Affect

Back 1

a broad range of feelings that people experience.

Front 2

Emotions

Back 2

Intense feelings that are directed at someone or something.

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Moods

Back 3

Feelings that tend to be less intense than emotions and that lack a contextual stimulus.

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Positive affect

Back 4

A mood dimension that consists of specific positive emotions such a excitement, self-assurance, and cheerfulness at the high end and boredom, sluggishness, and tiredness at the low end.

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Negative affect

Back 5

A mood dimension that consists of emotions such as nervousness, stress, and anxiety at the high end and relaxation, tranqulity, and poise at the low end.

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Positivity offset

Back 6

The tendency of most individuals to experience a mildly positive mood at zero input (when nothing in particular is going on).

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Affect intensity

Back 7

Individual differences in the strength with which individuals experience their emotions.

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Illusory correlation

Back 8

The tendency of people to associate two events when in reality there is on connection.

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Emotional labor

Back 9

A situation in which an employee expresses organizationally desired emotions during interpersonal transactions at work.

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Emotional dissonance

Back 10

Inconsistencies between the emotions people feel and emotions they project.