GLOSSARY

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Rage

Intense, uncontrollable anger. Rage can turn to violent behavior if alcohol, drugs, weapons, or revenge are involved.

Reappraisal

An approach to down-regulating emotions that involves changing how we think about a situation in order to decrease its emotional impact.

An emotion that arises upon appraisal of the consequences of one’s decisions. Like disappointment, regret is a ‘post-decisional emotion’. Regret is an emotion that arises when there is a perceived gap between the factual outcome with an outcome that (...)

Rejection

Feelings of shame and distress elicited from not being accepted by a desired relationship, person, or group that can impact the individual’s emotional and psychological wellbeing. Rejection involves direct negative attention and is distinct from (...)

Relief

A positive emotion stemming from an emotional transition when an uncertain situation turns out for the best or when a negative outcome is avoided.

Remorse

A feeling of compunction, or deep regret, for a sin or wrong committed. Unlike regret, remorse is felt about a sin or moral wrong whereas regret is felt about what is in some way undesirable, but not particularly so. Regret, but not (...)

Repentance

A private attitude of contrition accompanied by a motive to avoid repeating the transgression.

Resentment

A cold, emotional complex consisting of bitterness, hostility, residual fear, and residual anger in response to perceived harm from an offender.

Resilience

A dynamic process encompassing positive adaptation within the context of significant adversity. Implicit within this notion are two critical condition: (1) exposure to significant threat or adversity; and (2) the achievement of positive (...)

Resonant Relationships

Relationships that are characterized by mutual positive emotions, a subjective sense of being in synchrony with one another, and physiological effects of parasympathetic nervous system activation.

Respect

Worth accorded to one person by one or more others; individual’s assessment of how they are evaluated by those with whom they share common group membership.

Respectful Engagement

Behaviours that show esteem, dignity, and care for the other person.

Rest and Digest

The physiological system that diverts resources to maintenance and growth activities. The rest-and-digest branch of the autonomic nervous system functions through activation of the parasympathetic nervous system. Because of this, (...)

Ringxiety

A portmanteau of ‘ring’ and ‘anxiety’; refers to the phantom feeling of a phone call in one’s pocket. Ringxiety is also known as “phantom vibration syndrome”. Some shame and embarrassment may be elicited upon checking one’s phone and realizing it was a false alarm.