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Emotional feedback loop: a self-reinforcing cycle where

Emotional feedback loop: a self-reinforcing cycle where emotions generate behaviors, those behaviors produce consequences, and those consequences feed back into the original emotional state, creating a recursive system that amplifies and entrenches itself with each pass through the cycle

Why This Is a Definition

This definition clearly names the term 'emotional feedback loop', states its genus as a 'self-reinforcing cycle', and provides the differentia that distinguishes it by describing the specific mechanism: emotions → behaviors → consequences → feedback into original emotion. It's precise enough to distinguish from related concepts like emotional states or cognitive biases, and uses language consistent with the curriculum's framing of emotions as structural systems rather than isolated events.

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L-0470

Emotional feedback loops

Your emotions create self-reinforcing cycles — anxiety begets more anxiety.

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