Contrasting and categorization of emotions

The contrasting and categorisation of emotions describes how emotions are thought to relate to each other. Various recent proposals of such groupings are described in the following sections.

Contrasting Basic Emotions

The following table^[1] identifies and contrasts the fundamental emotions according to a set of definite criteria. The three key criteria used include: 1) mental experiences that have a strongly motivating subjective quality like pleasure or pain; 2) mental experiences that are in response to some event or object that is either real or imagined; 3) mental experiences that motivate particular kinds of behaviour. The combination of these attributes distinguish the emotions from sensations, feelings and moods.

Emotion Annotation and Representation Language

The Emotion Annotation and Representation Language (EARL) proposed by the Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion (HUMAINE) classifies 48 emotions.^[2]

Parrott's emotions by groups

A tree-structured list of emotions was described in Parrott (2001).^[3][4]

Plutchik's wheel of emotions

Robert Plutchik created a wheel of emotions in 1980 which consisted of 8 basic emotions and 8 advanced emotions each composed of 2 basic ones.^[5]

See also

• List of virtues
• Affect (psychology)
• Emotion classification
• Emotional mood
• Emotion and memory
• Empathy
• Basic emotions

References

External links

• http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/recognizing.htm That page presents lists from Ekman, Lazarus, Ortony et al., and Goleman.
• http://www.personalityresearch.org/basicemotions.html A table of basic emotions according to a variety of authors.
• http://joi.nu/h1 Chart of 121 emotions (with 3D characteristic).
• http://www.derose.net/steve/resources/emotionwords/ewords.html An organized list of over 800 English emotion words, maintained by Steven DeRose.

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