ABSTRACT
Devaluation or loss in depression, danger or threat in anxiety, situationally specific danger in phobia, transgression of personal rules and standards in anger, moral lapse in guilt, perceived deficiencies revealed to others in shame and expansion in happiness. These themes are tied to Aaron Beck's concept of the 'personal domain', that is, anything that the person considers important in their life. The nature of 'a person's emotional response – or emotional disturbance – depends on whether he perceives events as adding to, subtracting from, endangering, or impinging upon his domain'. A person may experience different emotions with the same event on separate occasions depending on the event's relevance to their personal domain. For example, a person may feel anxious on Monday when the train is late as they will then be late for an important meeting, and this might appear to others that they're trying to impress that they're unpunctual with its connotations of being undisciplined.
