What is emotion?

« Emotion » is a word commonly used in a personal and professional context. It’s a process that begins with a stimulus, leads to cognitive and physiological responses, and leads to patterns of behavior or action. An emotion can arise for a variety of reasons, and the cause or stimulus that provokes it is not always obvious. Sometimes, it’s a feature of the environment that makes us feel emotionally stimulated. Emotions must be distinguished from related terms such as moods, feelings, emotional disposition or affect.