Since 2020, aggregated from related topics
Emotional anticipation is a research area within psychology and neuroscience that focuses on predicting and understanding how individuals anticipate and react emotionally to future events or stimuli. This involves studying how people anticipate and prepare for emotional experiences, such as positive or negative events, and how these anticipatory emotions influence behavior and decision-making. Researchers in this area are interested in how emotions are triggered by expectations, and how individuals regulate, process, and respond to these emotions in a variety of contexts. Overall, emotional anticipation research seeks to enhance our understanding of how emotions shape human experiences and interactions.