Confusion
Cognitive unsettling when signals do not resolve into a clear story or next step.
190 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus.
Study and magazine
Entry resolves to the emotion-tagged sequence when published (ASN-933); until then you may land on a placeholder or the main player.
No published passage–image pairings for this emotion yet. The passage list below still reflects how the corpus names this feeling in text.
Part of a cluster
Confusion sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Confusionfrom its siblings here.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Articles
Vela essays that take this emotion as subject. Articles are ordered by tagging weight (the editor's read of how central this emotion is to the piece).
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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190 tagged passages
- WWB-RC-101From Who Wrote the Bible? Searching for Its Origins and Authors (2025)
21. The Epistles of Paul (and Others) Otherwise, this letter has some striking similarities with the authentic Pauline epistles, especially 1 Thessalonians. For instance, the opening of the two letters is identical: “Pa…
- CFTT-RC-248From Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009)
Cappellari; 1765; 1831–46) 873; Hadrian I (reigned 772–95) 348, 449; Hadrian II (reigned 867–72) 463; Honorius I (reigned 624–38) 345; Honorius III (Cencio; 1148; 1216–27) 401–2; Hormisdas (reigned 514–23) 326, 471; Inn…
- VLA-01AD699D-RC-113From Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology)
Has paid employment (ANSWER CATEGORIES) The inserted component can also be an instruction to the interviewer that leads to the following example: 6.29What is the main reason why you might not go and vote at the next Eur…
- HPJ-RC-119From How Propaganda Works (2015)
bringing into the context false ideological beliefs that are apparently not part of the discussion. As we shall see, there is a great deal of evidence that there is such a linguistic mechanism. And perhaps there are ana…
- AQ22-RC-2366From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
AMBROSE. Now this place has caused great perplexity to many, because while St. Luke says, Very early in the morning, Matthew says that it was in the evening of the sabbath that the women came to the sepulchre. But you m…
- LTA-RC-511From Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity (2024)
On Damasus’s claim, H. Inglebert, Les Romains chrétiens face à l’histoire de Rome: Histoire, christianisme et romanités en Occident dans l’Antiquité tardive (IIIe–Ve siècles) (Paris, 1996), 197–9. The first known refere…
- STAC-RC-8187From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Therefore the evil of natural corruption, although it ensue beside the intention of the generator, follows nevertheless always, since the presence of one form is ever accompanied by the privation of another. Wherefore c…
- SHF-RC-139From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
The resurrection of Christ from the dead is reported by the four Gospels, taught in the Epistles, believed throughout Christendom, and celebrated on every "Lord’s Day," as an historical fact, as the crowning miracle and…
- DCA-RC-308From The Divine Comedy (1950)
17. The conception that the seven planetary heavens, like the seven strings of a lyre, uttered divine harmonies as they moved, is expressly rejected by Aristotle. This is one of the few instances in which Dante departs …
- STAC-RC-6273From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply. Neither riches, nor poverty, nor any other exterior condition is of itself the good of man. Such things are good only as tending to the good of reason. Hence vice may arise out of any of them, when they are not t…
- AHB-RC-1339From Amplified Holy Bible (2015)
7 “It may be that their supplication [for mercy] will come before the LORD , and everyone will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.” 8 Baruch the…
- STAC-RC-7593From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Now it is not difficult to see how both of these can be present in one and the same substance of the soul: that is, the possible intellect, which is in potency to all intelligible objects, and the agent intellect which …
- SHF-RC-4653From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
The Church of Geneva consisted of all baptized and professing Christians subject to discipline. It had, at the time of Calvin, a uniform creed; Romanists and sectarians being excluded. It was represented and governed by…
- HCC-RC-3289From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
To the envoys who found John at Breisach, April 23, he gave his promise to return with them to Constance the next morning; but with his usual duplicity, he attempted to escape during the night, and was let down from the…
- EBHE-RC-052From Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings (2018)
Moody — temperamental, changeable, short-tempered, glum, morose, sullen, mopish, irritable, testy, peevish, fretful, spiteful, sulky, touchy. Neat — clean, orderly, tidy, trim, dapper, natty, smart, elegant, well-organi…
- GTJ-RC-170From Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990)
It is all impersonation, whether the sex underneath is true or not.” —Parker Tyler, “The Garbo Image” quoted in Esther Newton, Mother Camp Categories of true sex, discrete gender, and specific sexuality have constituted…
- WHT-RC-365From White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (2016)
the lower number of a three-to-one margin in illiteracy rates between slave and northern states. Wayne Flynt noted that the 1850 federal census announced that illiteracy rates among whites were 20.3 percent in the slave…
- SSOI-RC-185From Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Kinky Crustaceans, Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep (2016)
press their vents closely together: Like the vast majority of fish, haddock and cod are external fertilizers, releasing both eggs and sperm into the water column. In many species, pair-spawning is a common strategy for …
- STAC-RC-3921From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
1157. Secondly, at (905) he mentions something that could lead someone to suppose that there is a finite power in an infinite magnitude. For we see some lesser magnitude that has greater energy than a larger magnitude, …
- AQ22-RC-6694From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to the Fifth Objection. According to Augustine (Gen. ad lit. v, 5) the angels’ knowledge of God is not derived from visible creatures: wherefore the visible creature was made that it might manifest God not to the …