Anticipation

Anticipation is an emotion involving pleasure or anxiety in considering or awaiting an expected event.

"[5][attribution needed] As "sex has a major cognitive component — the most important element for desire is positive anticipation".

A second well-accepted theory is Huron's "ITPRA" 5 module theory of expectation, where previous imaginative tension hits the event onset/horizon, with prediction and reaction oscillating (alternating) in the response system, and resulting in appraisal feedback.

Note: This section refers to the process of generating the thought or feeling of anticipation in music.

For phenomenological philosopher Edmund Husserl, anticipation is an essential feature of human action.