Emotion, Disorders of Emotion and its Assessment: An understanding

Abstract

Emotion is the most important part of life of us as a human being. Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans mainly in the area of perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Emotion has a particularly strong influence on attention, especially modulating the selectivity of attention as well as motivating action and behavior. The purpose of the study was to explore about the emotion, its type, theories, morbidity, sociocultural aspects, and assessment. The article describes about emotions theoretical perspective on positive emotions and situates this new perspective within the emerging field of positive psychology.