For example, most researchers distinguish between happiness as a psychological state (for example, feeling overall more pleasure than pain) and happiness as a positive evaluation of your life, even if it has involved more pain than pleasure.
"Last year, a team of researchers from Singapore looked at original components of Cohen's work and applied it to video games," says Good. "They particularly looked at sharing the feelings of the characters – for example, feeling sad if things don't go well for the character, and suggesting an emotional connection in that the player would 'know' exactly what the character was going through.
However, the actual emotions after the surgery were different from the forecasted emotions (for example, feeling fine and dissatisfaction).
(4) Felt moods, for example, feeling elated, depressed, calm, bored, tense, miserable.
(3) Felt reactions or passions or emotions, for example, feeling delight, lust, fear, love, feeling grief, jealousy, regret.
(2) Bodily sensations, for example, feeling a twinge of pain, feeling an itch, feeling hungry, having a stomach ache, feeling hot, feeling dizzy.
So, for example, feelings of guilt over betraying a friend are with us because during evolution sustaining friendships brought benefits through the non-zero-sum logic of one hand washing the other ("reciprocal altruism").
Numinous experiences contrast with religious experiences that involve, for example, feelings but no alleged acquaintance with non-sensory realities or states of affairs.
Unlike, say, dog poop that can be easily washed off a shoe, people have no way to avoid the smell wafting from a giant hog farm and animal studies suggest that the impact of stressors, which can cause, for example, feelings of depression and anxiety, can be modulated by a sense of control over that stressor.
For example: feelings of depression, 'quiet despair' or futility.
For example, feelings of stress were substantially decreased for diabetic patients after participating in LY [ 24] and feelings of liveliness, activation, cheerfulness, and friendliness increased for patients awaiting organ transplantation [ 25].
