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Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological and neuropsychological changes, variously associated with subjective experiences such as thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. There is no scientific consensus on a definition.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Emotion | is a | essential part of any human decision-making and planning | 0.90 | text |
| Emotion | is a | action-oriented form of skillful engagement with the world | 0.90 | text |
| Emotion | is a | pleasant or unpleasant mental state organized in the limbic system of the mammalian brain | 0.90 | text |
| Emotion | is a | cornerstone of genres such as drama | 0.90 | text |
| thoughts | instance of | variously associated with subjective experiences | 0.80 | text |
| feelings | instance of | variously associated with subjective experiences | 0.80 | text |
| behavioral responses | instance of | variously associated with subjective experiences | 0.80 | text |
| and a degree of pleasure or displeasure | instance of | variously associated with subjective experiences | 0.80 | text |
| pleasure | instance of | where affective states can also include emotion-related phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| pain | instance of | where affective states can also include emotion-related phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| motivational states | instance of | where affective states can also include emotion-related phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| factor analysis to attempt to map emotion-related responses onto a more limited number of dimensions | instance of | to be generating these affects.Multi-dimensional analysis theoryPsychologists have used methods | 0.80 | text |
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