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.
False Hope
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.
Fixed Mindset
The implicit belief that one’s abilities and skills are innate – they are fixed, and one will have as much of them as they ever will.
Floriography
The language of flowers. A clandestine method of communication during the Victorian Era, used to convey emotions and intentions.
Flourishing
The relative attainment of a state in which all aspects of a person’s life are good, including the contexts in which that person lives.
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 (...)
Forest Bathing (Shinrin-Yoku; 森林浴)
Taking in the forest atmosphere; immersing oneself in nature using one’s senses.
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 (...)
Freeze Response
A complete absence of movement except for movements associated with respiration and tense body posture that result from increased muscle tone in this defensive state (...)
Friluftsliv
A Norwegian and Swedish word pronounced “free-loofts-live”. Defined as leisure time spent being and engaging in outdoor physical activity with the aims of experiencing nature and a contrasting environment.
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.
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
A measure of brain health and activity that detects local increases in relative blood oxygenation that are most probably an indirect consequence of neurotransmitter action and thus reflect local neuronal signalling (...)