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The tendency to have a particular type of affective experience, most often toward the type of experience the person has already had.
Introduction
Consciousness is considered to be the state of being aware of an external object (van Gulick 2004) or something within oneself (Farthing 1992). An emotion reflects the current state of consciousness and influences behavior (Schwarz 1990). Thus, an emotional disposition is an important part of the mechanism of consciousness as a persistent tendency to feel a specific kind of emotion in the presence of a certain object. Although the original states of emotion arise under certain general types of situation rather than specific individuals, living creatures, or things, they come to be associated with certain individuals or nonliving things while obtaining personal experience. After being formed this way, emotional dispositions manifest themselves in the form of actual emotion on specific...
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Krams, I. (2016). Emotional Disposition. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3052-1
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