Editing Emotion (section)

== Etymology ==
The word "emotion" dates back to 1579, when it was adapted from the French word ''émouvoir'', which means "to stir up". The term emotion was introduced into academic discussion as a catch-all term to [[passions (philosophy)|passion]]s, [[feeling|sentiment]]s and [[affection]]s.<ref>{{cite book | last=Dixon | first=Thomas | title=From passions to emotions: the creation of a secular psychological category | publisher=Cambridge University Press | date=2003 | isbn=978-0521026697 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B9c8tNQVI4YC | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009004144/https://books.google.com/books?id=B9c8tNQVI4YC | archive-date=9 October 2021 | url-status=live}}</ref> The word "emotion" was coined in the early 1800s by Thomas Brown and it is around the 1830s that the modern concept of emotion first emerged for the English language.<ref name="Smith Human Emotions">{{cite book|title=The Book of Human Emotions|last1=Smith|first1=Tiffany Watt|date=2015|publisher=Little, Brown, and Company|isbn=978-0316265409|pages=4–7|name-list-style=vanc}}</ref> "No one felt emotions before about 1830. Instead they felt other things – 'passions', 'accidents of the soul', 'moral sentiments' – and explained them very differently from how we understand emotions today."<ref name="Smith Human Emotions" />

Some cross-cultural studies indicate that the categorization of "emotion" and classification of basic emotions such as "anger" and "sadness" are not universal and that the boundaries and domains of these concepts are categorized differently by all cultures.<ref name="Russell">{{cite journal|vauthors=Russell JA|s2cid=4830394|date=November 1991|title=Culture and the categorization of emotions|journal=Psychological Bulletin|volume=110|issue=3|pages=426–450|doi=10.1037/0033-2909.110.3.426|pmid=1758918}}</ref> However, others argue that there are some universal bases of emotions (see Section 6.1).<ref name="Wierzbicka, Anna">Wierzbicka, Anna. ''Emotions across languages and cultures: diversity and universals''. Cambridge University Press. 1999.{{ISBN?}}{{page needed|date=October 2022}}</ref> In psychiatry and psychology, an inability to express or perceive emotion is sometimes referred to as [[alexithymia]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Taylor |first=Graeme J. |date=June 1984 |title=Alexithymia: concept, measurement, and implications for treatment |url=http://psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.141.6.725 |journal=American Journal of Psychiatry |language=en |volume=141 |issue=6 |pages=725–732 |doi=10.1176/ajp.141.6.725 |pmid=6375397 |issn=0002-953X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>