Just about everyone will have an emotional (physical, fear) response to 'fluffy' but we’ll probably experience feelings (our mental response) about it in different ways… But it doesn't really matter if we use 'feeling' and 'emotion' interchangeably.
Your body reacts both inside (gets ready to run like hell) and outside (your expression changes to show fear or panic and you may yell ‘aarrgh!’ ).įeelings are our reaction to emotions and how we respond mentally, they involve the brain and are often subconscious). Say, someone brings their pet tarantula to school.Įmotions are a physical reaction to the spider. A really (over) simple way to think about the difference is: Emotion (physical reaction) leading to: Feeling (mental response to emotion) The words ‘emotion’ and ‘feeling’ get used a lot and often interchangeably.
Is there a difference between ‘emotions’ and ‘feelings’?
