Further Description

Compliance emotion is difficult to define precisely, as it has been associated with both fear and religious or aesthetic attitudes. When compliance is intense, it is often linked to fear, submission, and resignation, whereas compliance with volume is described in terms of harmony, peace, and aesthetic appreciation. Western literature tends to portray compliance with intensity as unpleasant, emphasizing suffering and fear, while compliance with volume is idealized as a higher emotional state. Both forms involve a decrease in the self’s dominance, either through passive yielding or active adaptation to an external force. Ultimately, compliance emotion is characterized by an acceptance of external reality, with its emotional tone varying based on the intensity and nature of the stimulus.

Alternative Naming

Caution, weak will, conforming, adapting, yielding, resignation, humility, respect, awe, tolerance, oneness, joy, peace, receptivity, beauty, empathy, rapture, and harmony all describe various emotional states and attitudes related to compliance.