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Emotech
Emotech is a London-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2014 by Hongbin Zhuang, known for the Olly home robot and later for B2B speech, pronunciation, and lipsync AI tools.
Emoticon
An emoticon, a word combining emotion and icon, is a sequence of keyboard characters representing a facial expression, best known from Scott Fahlman's 1982 smiley face :-).
Emotion
Emotion: a complex reaction pattern with experiential, behavioral, and physiological elements directed at personally significant events. Covers James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer theories, basic emotion, appraisal, and constructionist traditions, and emotion regulation.
Emotion (Carly Rae Jepsen album)
Emotion (E•MO•TION), Carly Rae Jepsen's third studio album, released August 21, 2015 on 604/School Boy/Interscope. An '80s synth-pop record written from over 200 songs, critically acclaimed but peaking at No. 16, reissued for its 10th anniversary in 2025.
Emotion (Samantha Sang song)
Emotion is a 1977 pop ballad by Barry and Robin Gibb, first recorded by Australian singer Samantha Sang at Criteria Studios, Miami. Released on Private Stock, it hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978, No. 1 in New Zealand; later covered by the Bee Gees and Destiny's Child.
Emotion classification
Emotion classification: organizing emotional states via discrete models (Ekman's six basic emotions) or dimensional models (valence, arousal, dominance; Russell's circumplex), used in psychology and affective computing.
Emotion recognition task
An emotion recognition task is a behavioral test measuring how well a person identifies emotions in faces, voices, or scenes, used in research and clinical groups.
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) is a 10-item self-report questionnaire measuring habitual use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, introduced by James J. Gross and Oliver P. John in 2003.
Emotional affair
Emotional affair, also called emotional infidelity: a non-sexual extrarelational bond marked by intimacy mirroring a committed relationship, sustained contemplation, and deception or opacity; hallmarks are secrecy and diverted emotional support.
Emotional blackmail
Emotional blackmail, popularized by Susan Forward's 1997 book, is manipulation of a close person through fear, obligation, and guilt (FOG), using implied threats of punishment or withdrawal to force compliance; studied in relationships, workplaces, and film discourse.
Emotional design
Emotional design is a human-centered design approach that shapes products and interfaces to evoke specific emotions, introduced by Donald A. Norman in his 2003 book Emotional Design.
Emotional detachment
Emotional detachment, also called emotional numbing or blunting, is reduced emotional responsiveness. It appears in PTSD and dissociation, as an antidepressant side effect, and in avoidant attachment.
Emotional dumping
Emotional dumping, also called trauma dumping, is the informal, non-clinical term for sharing traumatic or emotionally intense experiences without the listener's consent, timing, or capacity in mind, contrasted with healthy venting and linked in research to co-rumination.
Emotional dysregulation
Emotional dysregulation, or emotion dysregulation, is difficulty managing emotions and reactions, appearing across ADHD, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, ASD, and DMDD; treated with CBT, DBT, ACT, and medication.
Emotional eating
Emotional eating: eating or overeating in response to emotions rather than hunger. Measured with DEBQ, EES, TFEQ questionnaires; scale validity contested; psychological interventions reduce EE (SMD -0.99) and weight (-4.09 kg).
Emotional Freedom Techniques
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, tapping), developed by Gary Craig in the 1990s from Callahan's Thought Field Therapy, combines exposure and cognitive therapy with acupoint tapping; meta-analyses show large effects for PTSD, anxiety, and depression versus waitlist, smaller versus active controls.
Emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence (EI), coined by Salovey and Mayer in 1990 and popularized by Goleman's 1995 book, covers perceiving, understanding, using, and regulating emotions; measured via ability, trait, and mixed models with modest predictive validity.
Emotional Junglist
Emotional Junglist is the second studio album by Nia Archives (Dehaney Nia Lishahn Hunt), released 17 July 2026 on HIJINXX/Island; a 15-track, 40-minute jungle-infused breakup record following 2024's Silence Is Loud, scoring 80 on Metacritic.
Emotional labor
Emotional labor, coined by Arlie Hochschild in The Managed Heart (1983), is emotion management performed for a wage under organizational display rules, via surface or deep acting, with documented costs to worker well-being and gains to performance.
Emotional Rescue
Emotional Rescue is a studio album by the Rolling Stones, released June 20, 1980, which continued the dance-rock direction of Some Girls and topped the album charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
Emotional self-regulation
Emotional self-regulation: influencing which emotions arise and how they are experienced and expressed, per James Gross's process model. Covers reappraisal, suppression, rumination, cultural moderation, and meta-analytic links to psychopathology.
Emotional support animal
Emotional support animal (ESA): an untrained animal whose presence alleviates symptoms of a person's disability, documented by a mental health professional. Unlike service animals, ESAs lack ADA public-access rights; US housing, air travel, and 2025-2026 HUD enforcement rules define their legal status.
Emotionally focused therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), also called EFCT for couples, is an attachment-based psychotherapy developed by Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg in the 1980s, structured in three stages and nine steps, with meta-analytic support for treating couple distress.
Emotions (Mariah Carey album)
Emotions is Mariah Carey's second studio album, released September 17, 1991 by Columbia Records; also known as an unreleased-title record once called The Wind. Its title track made her the first act whose first five singles all topped the Billboard Hot 100; the album peaked at number 4 and went 4x Platinum.
Emotions (Nine Vicious album)
EMOTIONS (Nine Vicious album): 2026 rap album by Georgia rapper Nine Vicious (Treyvion Deronta Echols), released April 3, 2026 on Studio Addicts / Create Music Group; 23 tracks, 71 minutes, Kacy Hill guest, Pitchfork 4.8.
Emotivism
Emotivism, also called the boo-hurrah theory, is a non-cognitivist metaethical view that moral statements express emotions or attitudes rather than state facts; developed by Ayer (1936) and Stevenson (1944), challenged by the Frege-Geach problem, and succeeded by expressivism and quasi-realism.
EMP Scopely Holdings, LLC
EMP Scopely Holdings, LLC is a Delaware pooled investment fund vehicle managed by Cobalt Investment Management LLC, which reported selling $121 million of a $200 million offering in 2020.
empact
empact GmbH is a German integrated energy-services company founded in Cologne in 2021 by Sebastian Rühl, providing photovoltaics, storage, EV charging, and green heating and cooling for buildings.
EMPAD pixel array detector
The EMPAD, short for electron microscope pixel array detector, is a direct electron detector developed at Cornell University for scanning transmission electron microscopy and sold commercially from late 2017.
Empagliflozin
Empagliflozin (Jardiance), an SGLT2 inhibitor by Boehringer Ingelheim approved in 2014, treats type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease, reducing cardiovascular death, HF hospitalization, and kidney disease progression.