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October 10, 2009
Emotions in general, can be categorized as positive emotions and negative emotions. Unpleasant emotions like fear, anger, jealousy which are harmful to the well-being and development of an individual are termed as negative emotions while the pleasant emotions like amusement, love, curiosity, joy and happiness which are helpful and essential to the normal development are termed as positive emotions.
However, by their nature of positives it should not be concluded that experiencing of positive emotions is always good and that of negative emotions is always bad. While weighing this impact we should also keep in mind the other factors like (i) the frequency and intensity of emotional experience and (II) the situation, occasion and the nature of the stimulus which arouses the emotion. Excess of everything is bad. Emotions with too much intensity and frequency, whether positive or negative bring harmful effects. On the other hand the so called negative emotions may prove very essential for human welfare. For example, the emotion of fear is sure to get injured because he has not learnt to save himself against a possible danger.
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