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Secondary emotion: an emotional reaction to a primary

Secondary emotion: an emotional reaction to a primary emotion — such as shame about anger or anxiety about sadness — that compounds the original emotional experience and obscures the primary signal

Why This Is a Definition

Genus: emotional reaction to emotion. Differentia: compounds primary experience, obscures original signal.

Source Lessons

L-1216

Secondary emotions about primary emotions

Feeling ashamed of feeling angry or anxious about feeling sad — these secondary emotions compound.

L-1303

Emotional cascades

One emotion can trigger another creating a predictable cascade.

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