GLOSSARY

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Facial Action Coding Scheme (FACS)

A coding system that distinguishes all possible visually distinguishable facial movements based on a comprehensive analysis of the anatomical basis of facial movement.

Facial Feedback Hypothesis

The hypothesis that facial expressions provide feedback to the responder that is necessary or sufficient to affect significantly his or her emotional experience and behavior.

Hope in which expectations are based on (i) illusions rather than reality, (ii) unsuitable goals being pursued and (iii) poor strategies to achieve desired goals. False hope is often contrasted with hope, which is a (...)

Fear

An emotion that arises from appraisals of situations as being uncertain and beyond individual control, motivating escape or protective behaviours that maximize safety and security.

Fear of Missing Out (FoMO)

A pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent.

Fight or Flight

A primitive, physiological system evolved to enable rapid response to short term threat or stress either by fighting, fleeing or freezing via activation of the sympathetic nervous system, e.g. increased heart rate, blood pressure. Also known as acute stress response.

Fisselig

Pronounced, “fis-se-lish”. A German term that describes the overwhelming flustered feeling, caused by someone’s nagging, to the point of incompetence.

Flow

The holistic sensation that people feel when they act with total involvement. When one is in flow, he/she experiences it as a unified flowing from one moment to the next, in which he/she is in control of his actions, and (...)

Forgiveness

The set of motivational changes whereby one becomes (a) decreasingly motivated to retaliate against an offending relationship partner; (b) decreasingly motivated to maintain estrangement from the offender; and (...)

Frustration

An interference with the occurrence of an instigated goal-response at its proper time in the behavior sequence. Frustrations are aversive events and generate aggressive inclinations only to the extent that they produce negative affect.

Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

The hypothesis that frustrations can give rise to aggressive inclinations because they are aversive. They produce an instigation to aggression only to the extent that they are unpleasant to those affected.