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Purpose – To describe the meaning of emotion.
Design/methodology/approach – Describes how emotion has recently become a popular concept for discussion, but it is not often recognised that human beings are, in essence, meaning-creating creatures and that emotion is one of the forms of meaning they create.
Findings – What one experiences as “I”, “me”, “myself”, that is, one's sense of being a person, is a meaning-structure, which has developed through one's interaction with one's environment. One's physiological make-up is such that all the meanings are guesses about what is going on. Consequently the sense of being a person is always in danger of being invalidated by events. Emotions are meanings, which relate to the validation...
