Source status: ordinary and research term interpreted through several competing scientific theories.
Emotion is a changing pattern involving bodily state, attention, appraisal, action tendency, context and learned concepts.
No emotion has one infallible bodily location or unique biological fingerprint. In the journeys, separating sensation, interpretation and meaning is a reflective aid—not a claim that emotion unfolds through one universal sequence.
Different from: sensation. Sensation names felt physical qualities. Emotion includes bodily experience together with significance, context and readiness to act.
Related: Sensation; Meaning; Emotional Alchemy; Replay.
