Chapter 14

FEELING AND ITS FUNCTIONS

1. The nature of feeling: The different feeling qualities--Feeling always present in mental content--The seeming neutral feeling zone. 2. Mood and disposition: How mood is produced--Mood colors all our thinking--Mood influences our judgments and decisions--Mood influences effort--Disposition a resultant of moods--Temperament. 3. Permanent feeling attitudes, or sentiments: How sentiments develop--The effect of experience--The influence of sentiment--Sentiments as motives. 4. Problems in observation and introspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226