Knowing And Labeling Emotions

Abstract

labeling an emotion is not a process of mere categorization, having no other effect / indeed, it is an important means by which individuals process their own emotional experiences and reconstruct their interior world and their own image, giving them coherence / this coherence is not only an intra-individual phenomenon, since it necessarily implies an inter-personal dimension, which involves other individuals / it also implies a social dimension, as it reflects a cultural order defining the scripts and the interpretative categories which are at their basis / aimed at focusing on some of the complex mechanisms which regulate this search for a new balance (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)